Hello Friends & Educators ~;0) This is the Final~Final Summary & Update of my SF-Warrior Arena Classroom Proposal© Ive submitted to San Francisco Leaders, Mexico’s SF Consul General Andres Roemer & Earths Global Family:) 1/Arena High School-College Career Classroom©; 2/Cross-Cultural Sports & Education Exchange Program & Visitors Housing Facility©; 3/Arena Astronomy Roof-Top Observatory Deck©; Website Links to SF Government Officials & Video Interview with Warrior Owners Joseph Lacob, Peter Guber & President/COO Rick Welts talking about the new San Francisco Mission Bay Arena goals & perspectives ~ Please feel free to share with Friends, Colleagues & Educators ~;o) In Peace & Education :) ************************ September 29, 2014 San Francisco High School Teachers, Athletic Directors, Principals, Families, San Francisco Unified School District Officials, Government & Public-Private Sector Agencies, Non-Profit Foundations and Community Leaders; Please review my enclosed SF-Warriors Arena Classroom proposal update; this is a brief summary and description of the several major components of my long-time sports, education and career development proposals that I wrote and developed based on my Master’s Thesis in 1985, and submitted to the San Francisco Giants owner Bob Lurie, Mayor Dianne Feinstein and SF Board of Supervisors at that time. I have shared the continued research and evolution of my proposal with numerous San Francisco city officials and private sector leaders including the SF Chamber of Commerce, Port Commission and Port of SF and staff, SF Mayors and Supervisors - and many other local, state and national leaders and officials since 1985. The letter below summarizes my proposal and interrelated components that have evolved and developed over time, and what I have for the past 5 years submitted to the Golden State Warriors and San Francisco city public and private sector officials. I am respectfully requesting that the Warriors integrate within the original design and construction of their proposed Arena & Multi-Purpose Pavilion, an Arena High School & College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom© in collaboration with San Francisco public and private sector agencies, officials, the Mission Bay neighborhood and citizens and community leaders throughout San Francisco. I believe this new SF-Warriors Arena is capable of providing our entire San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area Community with an opportunity to initiate the creation of a model, state-of-the-art Arena Classroom worthy of local, state, national and international respect and emulation - for generations to come. I am asking San Francisco public and private school teachers, principals, administrators, families, non-profit youth and community leaders and educators, private sector leaders, Organizations and Foundations take the time necessary to contemplate - and imagine - the tremendous long-term value and opportunities available through the integration of this Arena Classroom proposal; as well as the potential far-reaching socio-economic programs and possibilities that inclusion of the additional cross-cultural education and innovative, real-world career development components I am proposing, can provide for San Francisco - and beyond. Also, please feel free to answer the call from our City and County of San Francisco officials and the Golden State Warriors NBA Team’s Organization and leadership, who are asking for input from San Francisco citizens, communities and public and private sector businesses and leaders to share your own ideas and suggestions. This Warriors Arena offers San Francisco an opportunity to develop Year-Round access and programs that can assist in the creation of a truly model, first-of-its-kind strategically located interior Warriors Arena Career Classroom capable of integrating numerous interdisciplinary knowledge, practical leadership experiences and life-long benefits for the future of all our students, youth, families, businesses and entire San Francisco Community. I believe this Arena Classroom, as well as the several related model educational components I have been proposing, can assist in providing numerous benefits through the development of these collaborative educational methodologies and programs. At the same time - as a major intention and purpose of the long-term goals and objectives of this proposal - I trust that the creation and establishment of national and international Models will inspire comprehensive, innovative and far-reaching influence and impacts with the capacity to enhance and expand positive growth, guidance and direction in order to assist our nations focus as we move forward building visionary Sports Arenas and Facilities now and into the future... for generations to come. I look forward to offering my assistance in the work that lies ahead in order to achieve the best and highest attainable benefits for individuals, public and private sector businesses, the Golden State Warriors and all levels of our widely diverse socio-economic and cross-cultural Community of San Francisco. Once again, thank you very much for your time, consideration and support in my effort to work with the Golden State Warriors NBA Team and the City and County of San Francisco in the most beneficial capacity possible. Sincerely, Dennis MacKenzie *************** NOTE: Included below is the Website Link to the Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Committees (CAC) Citizen Feedback Form, where you can send your own comments, ideas and suggestions; as well as support for my Warriors Arena Classroom - and also join their mailing list to receive up-to-date information and continuing progress of the Warriors Arena and Pavilion Project. Also, I am sharing a Link to a Video Presentation of a recent interview given by Golden State Warrior Owners Joseph Lacob, Peter Guber, and President and Chief Operating Officer Rick Welts regarding the new Mission Bay Arena location that includes additional information and perspectives regarding this SF-Arena Project. Thank you once again for your time and interest in contributing your thoughts in order to design and build the most comprehensive, visionary “Warriors San Francisco Sports & Entertainment Center” we can imagine - and assist in creating model, innovative Year-Round programs and benefits for our entire San Francisco Bay Area Community... for generations to come. ************* #1 - sfocii.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=7341 * View the Warriors power point Presentation of their initial Mission Bay Site & Design Concept for the new Arena. #2 - sfgov.org/piers3032/mission-bay-pavilion-project-feedback-form * Public Comment Email Form, where you can send your comments and suggestions - including support for my proposal to construct a High School Career Pathway Classroom inside the Arena. #3 - sfocii.org/index.aspx?page=61 * Website Link to the San Francisco Office of Community Investment & Infrastructure, one of the lead San Francisco Government Agencies responsible for development of the SF-Warriors Arena Project in Mission Bay, where you can join the Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) Mailing List to receive continuing up-to-date information, and follow the progress of the Warriors Arena Project. #4 - nba/warriors/sf * Interview with the Warriors Owners and Rick Welts/President & Chief Operating Officer that offers lots of up-to-date information and perspectives from the Warriors on this Website Link * Note from the Warriors Website; Whats the best way to stay up to date on all news and information surrounding this project? Updates, news and answers to frequently asked questions will be posted to this site throughout the development process. You can also stay up to date on all arena-related news by following our official Facebook (facebook/warriorssfarena) and Twitter accounts (@warriorssfarena). Fans are also welcome to send their thoughts and suggestions to the Warriors via email at SFArena@warriors. **************** September 17, 2014 Mission Bay Citizens Advisory Committee; C/o Ms. Corrine Woods, Chair Mr. Kevin Simons, Vice-Chair Kevin Beauchamp Sarah Davis Dan Deibel Donna Dell’Era Alfonso Felder Michael D. Freeman Tom Hart Andrea Jones Toby Levine JoAnne Lock Dick Millet Jennifer Pratt Meade Catherine Sharpe Milena Elperin Re: Mission Bay CAC - September 18, 2014 Meeting / September 20, 2014 Special Workshop Agenda 1. Action Item: Presentation of the Draft Major Phase Site Design and Building Massing for the Golden State Warriors Project (Blocks 29-32) bounded by Third Street, South Street, 16th Street and Terry Francois Boulevard – Representatives from the Warriors and Design Team – 90 minutes. Description of Item: Representatives from the Golden State Warriors and their design team will present and solicit community feedback on the draft major phase site design and building massing for the Golden State Warriors Project. There will be workshop on Saturday, September 20, 2014. SF-Warriors Arena & Cultural Events & Entertainment Pavilion: Arena High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom© Cross-Cultural Sports & Education Exchange Programs© Arena Astronomy & Education Roof-Top Observatory Deck© Dear Mission Bay CAC Members, As you and the Mission Bay community begin this new process to study, review, critique, offer and receive suggestions and ideas regarding this initial phase of the ‘Draft Major Phase Site Design and Building Massing’ for the Golden State Warriors Project, I respectfully ask that you and San Francisco citizens, families, public and private sector officials, business leaders and investors consider the wide range of potential socio-economic benefits that can provide neighborhood and city wide innovative opportunities that will affect your immediate Mission Bay neighborhood, as well as our entire San Francisco Bay Area as a whole - far into the future. I am writing to ask that before this first major site design phase is complete, please take into consideration the long-term potential positive impacts and socio-economic benefits that several of my proposal ideas can have in relation to this current study of the exterior site design concept for the proposed SF-Warriors Arena & Multi-Purpose Entertainment & Events Pavilion. I have proposed to the Warriors, San Francisco public officials and the community at-large, to review and consider the inclusion and construction of an Arena Astronomy & Education Roof-Top Observatory Deck© that could be strategically located on the roof-top above the Warriors Event Hall area of the Arena. This location is where Snohetta’s Craig Dykers suggested in the slide-show presentation of their initial project site design concept at last month’s CAC meeting where the Warriors are considering to include an Arena roof-top deck. If this location is not deemed possible or practical, maybe it could be built on the roof-top of one of the project’s other buildings; or even another location within the Arena property itself. (Of course, a ‘Roof-Top’ Astronomy Observatory Deck would be a more perfect ‘sky-viewing location’!) A few of the main purposes for this Astronomy Observatory would be to provide a unique and valuable Year-Round attraction for many educational, fun and exciting programs; and a magical and beneficial addition for San Francisco citizens, students and the entire Bay Area community for multi-dimensional (as well as ‘real out~of~this~world galactic’ perspectives) education and career guidance; as well as offering a wide variety of dynamic entertainment and events. (I briefly describe elements of this component in my proposal letter dated February 25, 2013.) Because this new Mission Bay location offers very different Arena site dimensions with a new building design and height limits than Piers 30-32 offered, I am asking the CAC to take this initial phase as an opportunity to consider as a part of your discussions of the evolving Arena design, footprint and landscape, how this change of location has opened up new possibilities for developing creative and interdependent community programs, businesses and benefits that were not available at the previous location. On this note, please review my Cross-Cultural Sports & Education Exchange Program© component during this early phase that deals with the new site design, and consider the potential long-term opportunities and benefits that the integration and implementation of this program can provide within the Arena footprint – or built near-by. Also, one of the purposes for the initiation and creation of Sister-City relationships as it relates to how this Warriors project can provide positive and mutually respectful and beneficial cross-cultural bridges for everyone involved, is the inclusion of career and business development projects in collaboration with this San Francisco Warriors Arena Pavilion project. I believe this Warriors SF Arena project is a unique, and magnificent opportunity to initiate innovative and inspiring public/private partnerships and programs capable of enhancing and expanding creative and cooperative growth for the benefit of San Francisco, Oakland, and the entire Bay Area. One of the goals of my original primary proposal component, is the integration and construction of an Arena High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom© within professional sports Arenas, Ballparks, Stadiums and Facilities. This Arena Classroom can serve all our communities, including through building positive and mutually respectful cross-cultural bridges for the benefit of everyone involved as an effective, real-world educational methodology capable of integrating a wide variety of career and business development projects within and around this SF-Warriors Arena Pavilion project; as well as throughout San Francisco’s diverse cross-cultural communities and neighborhoods. In this regard, one of the main objectives for this cross-cultural exchange program component is to include the successful implementation and establishment of innovative and visionary Sister-City Relationships across the country, and throughout the Americas. On this note, if the Warriors and San Francisco leaders and officials support the inclusion of an Arena Career Classroom, this facility can provide the capacity to invite visiting school leaders, students and teachers, as well as business and government officials and leaders to meet and exchange knowledge and constructive friendships and business contacts with our students, teachers, and local public-private sector officials at this SF-Warriors Arena Classroom. This Arena Classroom can bring together the exchange of positive ideas, education and career development programs that can provide practical, real-world experiences being shared and taken back to the visitor’s cities and their schools, students, educators, businesses, government and community leaders. In addition - if feasible and economically beneficial - I am asking that the Warriors and San Francisco leaders and investors consider building a Cross-Cultural Visitors Center & Housing Facility© within the Warriors new Mission Bay location as an integral element in order to assist in the leadership of creating and developing model sports and education exchange programs for the benefit of our San Francisco education and business institutions, as well as visiting officials and schools from cities and states across our nation - and throughout the Americas. (Or, if not possible within the Warriors arena site, hopefully a cooperative venture can be created to construct this type of Sports & Education Exchange Program & Visitors Facility© near-by.) In regards to my proposal, I’ve mentioned most of these component ideas and further details several times at public hearings and in my writings and proposal update letters; including the fact that the City and County of San Francisco has already developed numerous Sister-City Relationships around the world. However, we have yet to create these beneficial cross-cultural partnerships with any country throughout the Americas - which I believe San Francisco will eventually initiate for the obvious inherent beneficial opportunities that come from establishing cooperative social, economic, education and business global partnerships for all concerned. These two following announcements are on the ‘Office of the Mayor’ website in the ‘News Release’ section: “Mayor Lee Launches LatinSF Initiative; San Francisco Expands International Efforts to Create Greater Economic Ties with New Initiative to Strengthen Relationship between Latin America & United States; First Partnership Started with Mexico - Posted Date: 9/9/2014”, and; Mayor Lee Launches LatinSF Initiative: Mayor Edwin M. Lee officially launched the LatinSF economic development initiative at Silicon Valley Day in Mexico City as part of his official trade mission to Latin America. Modeled after the groundbreaking China-San Francisco economic development initiative ChinaSF, LatinSF is a new economic development initiative to promote business and trade between San Francisco and Latin America. Posted Date: 9/9/2014. Also in the San Francisco Chronicle there is a headline article written by Carla Marinucci about the visit with Governor Jerry Brown in Sacramento by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, where she writes: “The two leaders…also pledged cooperation on educational programs, including an unprecedented exchange that would bring 100,000 Mexican students to study at California universities.”; Marinucci also writes, “Mexico’s consul general in San Francisco, Andres Roemer, said he has invited Mayor Ed Lee for a stay at his home in Mexico City starting Sept 8… We want to become friends and strengthen this relationship”, Roemer said. I believe this SF-Warriors Arena Project is a unique and magnificent opportunity to initiate innovative public-private partnerships and programs capable of enhancing and expanding positive and creative growth for all of San Francisco, Oakland and the entire Bay Area’s wonderfully diverse, cross-cultural communities. Once again, I am requesting that the Warriors - in collaboration with numerous San Francisco investors, public agencies, our local colleges, universities and institutions, public and private high schools including San Francisco Unified School District officials and educators - consider the unlimited interdependent, socio-economic and job creation opportunities and benefits available through implementation of these proposals as model programs integrated into the design and construction of this Warriors-San Francisco professional Multi-Purpose Arena & Pavilion. At the same time, I trust that the creation of this new Warriors Arena & Facility with the inclusion of this comprehensive model Classroom, will serve as a national model capable of developing innovative and influential educational methodologies for our San Francisco Bay Area, and throughout the country. In offering this blueprint for other cities and professional sports teams and industries in order to build successful future public-private partnerships and collaborations, I trust the Warriors and San Francisco will keep in mind the important and responsible leadership roles that our sports teams, political and corporate leaders and officials - and many others - play in building positive and rewarding social and city environments for the health and well-being of all members of our Community today… and future generations to come. I trust the Warriors and San Francisco public and private sector leaders will work together and utilize the innate positive qualities and strengths of our Nation’s professional sports Institutions, and the multi-dimensional influence and responsibilities that they hold. Through innovative and effective education, career guidance and practical real-world job training pathways and leadership skills experience, this cooperative venture can build a San Francisco Warriors Multi-Purpose Arena & Pavilion worthy of the citizens and investors from the entire San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area Community - and far beyond. Please review the proposal material I provided to you at the May 8, 2014 CAC meeting that included these following letters dated: February 11, 2014 - April 7, 2014 - February 25, 2013 - and February 9, 2009, which all include brief descriptions and details regarding these proposal components I am reminding you of today; as well as my original, primary High School-College Career Pathway & Field Study Classroom© proposal that I’ve shared for the past 5 years with the Warriors, and all City and County of San Francisco government officials and private sector leaders involved in the Warriors effort to build a Multi-Purpose Arena in San Francisco. I respectfully ask that you consider the potential wide range of local, state and national social, cross-cultural, business and economic benefits inherently available through the cooperative integration and implementation of these sports, education and career development proposals. You’re welcome to contact me if you have questions, or would like further clarification in regards to any of the proposal components I have outlined in this summary. You can review my current and earlier proposal information, updates and communications that I’ve shared with the Warriors organization and San Francisco public agencies and officials posted on my Website: roundthediamond. I look forward to working in collaboration with the Golden State Warriors and all City and County of San Francisco public leaders and agencies, as well as the Mission Bay CAC and all San Francisco citizens, private sector and business leaders in the most beneficial capacity possible. Thank you once again for your time, consideration, and support. Sincerely, Dennis G. MacKenzie CC: Golden State Warriors; Mr. Joseph Lacob, Co-Executive Chairman, CEO & Governor Mr. Peter Guber, Co-Executive Chairman C/o Mr. Rick Welts, President and Chief Operating Officer Honorable Ed Lee, Mayor; City and County of San Francisco Commission on Community Investment and Infrastructure, Successor Agency Commission; Honorable Mara Rosales, Chair Honorable Marily Mondejar Honorable Darshan Singh C/o Ms. Lucinda Nguyen, Interim Commission Secretary Ms. Tiffany Bohee, Executive Director; OCII Ms. Catherine Reilly, Mission Bay North & South, Project C/o Ms. Lila Hussain, Assistant Project Manager San Francisco Office of Economic & Workforce Development, Warriors Arena & Pavilion Project Team; C/o Ms. Jennifer Matz, Waterfront Development Director Mr. John Gavin, Ms. Anne Taupin, Mr. Adam Van De Water San Francisco Board of Supervisors; President David Chiu, and Members C/o Ms. Angela Calvillo, Clerk of the Board San Francisco Planning Commission; Honorable Cindy Wu, President, and Members C/o Mr. Jonas P. Ionin, Commission Secretary Mr. John Rahaim, Director of Planning; SF Planning Department San Francisco Unified School District; Teachers, Principals and Administrators C/o Mr. Richard A. Carranza, Superintendent San Francisco Board of Education; C/o Ms. Esther V Casco, Executive Assistant United Educators of San Francisco; C/o Mr. Dennis Kelly, President Mr. Andres Roemer, Consul General of Mexico, San Francisco **********************
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