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JT nmmmmmhmw A-4 Sunday, THETTRIBUNE, Oakland, California' 26,1989 3 Renovation to bring ferryboats, Canada use of drugs-; not approved 4- NEW LOOK FOR'JACK LONDON SQUARE: AsNMVtoft Tbs Canadian government has sent out notices to every dbotoiu in Canada that it will allow tients with life-threatening di eases to obtain any drugs tSkLt companies are willing tosrtlf even if no country has appuvad the drugs for marketing. Advocates for AIDS patients said that. If In the United States said that, jf the drug companies cooperated, this emergency program could be an Important new source experimental drugs that are not available in the United The United States Food -and Drug Administration allows, the seriously ill to import drugs-for their own use, even if they are not approved for sale in.this country, and buyers clube'or-ganixed by AIDS patients and their advocates regularly import drugs sold over the counter elsewhere. port also has been approached by Amtrak officials about relocating the train station at 16th and Wood streets to Other features of Jack Lon-, dons Waterfront include: a site near Jack London Square. Prescription drugs are more difficult to obtain because the patient must have a prescription; written by a doctor in another country.

FCur months agoJthe port ap-: ltranrfor fS with Caltranffor $3 plied mil-lion ln grant money to build a view of new office building going up at Jack Louden Square, station at Alice and Second streets, a few blocks from the A food pavilion with 52 square-foot office building To use the Canadian system, American patients would have CeeOaeed Arvo Fife A-l Th project includes construction of several office and reftil buildings, a food pavilion with 32 restaurants, a new port bead-quarters building, a hotel and a multiscreen cinema Complex. Much of the project is scheduled to open by the end of this year. We're going back to the beginning with the water service and train service that was here (on the waterfront) 45 years ago, said Susan Taymor-Lurla, Portside Associates project director for the Jack London's Waterfront development Its becoming again an entertainment, shopping and work district with all the transportation elements." The proposed ferry service would run from about 7 ajn. to 7 With three or four round-trips for commuters each morning and evening to San Francisco, according to Portside Associates partner Glenn Isaacson. Two other round-trip exi would be scheduled during lunchtime, primarily for tourists visiting the square, Isaacson Discussions also are under way with Alameda city officials about having some of the ferries stop over in that city, Taymor-Luria said.

The port is considering setting aside a parking area southeast of the square for muters using the Oakland ferry service. Portside Associates and port officials have talked to three fer- ryboat operators that want to provide the service if they can be guaranteed 120,000 to $30,000 a month when it starts up, Isaacson said. The terry operators we've talked to all are Interested in doing this, but they want, somebody to cover the downside," said Port Properties Director; Hank Kammermeier. Port staff now are Investigating whether federal, state or county transit funds could be tapped to underwrite the ferry service. There has been renewed inter- to have the help of Canadian.

46: tors and might have to go to Cap ada for some of their, medical. care. But, for the first time, th; nldailow Canadian system would patients access to drugs. Mat have not been marketed any; where, as long as the drug cbm-4 pany will sell them. lOI is nearing completion across Washington Street to the southeast.

New York Life has preleased 17,000 square feet of that building. 'Future plans call for a 250-room hotel next to Roosevelt' Pier at the foot of Clay Street The presidential yacht Potomac, used by Franklin D. Roosevelt, Is currently being refurbished and will be docked at the pier next to a museum displaying Roosevelt memorabilia. The project also includes a public plan in front of the food pavilion, a huge plana near the Broadway Pier and a boardwalk along the estuary between the Roosevelt Pier and the Grotto. One of the things thats really terrific about the place is the amount of open space thats there," said Isaacson.

"Where in The Canadian program-waaI established 10 years ago, but most doctors and even many health officials were unaware df. it To draw attention to it, 'the1 Ottawa government sent the Ao4; tlces to the doctors last telling how the system works-and listing some of proved drugs that AIDS patients-" could receive. WII -'I The notice does not mention other life-threatening diseases' addition to acquired immune deficiency syndrome, but patients with such diseases would be.qpje'; to obtain drugs under the pro-' gram. specialty restaurants on Embarcad-ero between Broadway and Franklin Street, which will open in October. We have several letters of intent, some leases under negotiation and many interested prospects" fag the pavilion, Taymor-Lurla said.

"Were very en- nA seven- or eight-screen movie theater with 1,700 to 2,000 seats at the corner of Embar-cadero and Broadway. Mann Theatres of Southern California has signed a letter of intent for the cinema. Thymol lymor-Lurla said, which could open by July 1990. An parking garage scheduled for completion by next November on the northeast side of Embarcadero between Clay and Washington streets. A ISO, 000-square-foot port office building on the opposite side of Embarcadero, which the port plaqs to occupy by the end of the year.

Another 50, 000- tjrs I i V.T (M 0 By 8m Mum ing the once vital Bay Area ferry Oaklands last ferry plowed its way across the Bay in .1558. State Sen. Quentin Kopp, I-San Francisco, has formed a task force to promote ferries as a way of alleviating the congestion on Bav bridges. Still to be determined by Oakland officials is what kind of ferryboat would be used and where it Would berth at the square. Isaacson said the jerries could dock either between the Grotto and Scotts restaurants on the ftsfcisnd Estuary or at a wharf Just southeast of the Grotto.

The ferries will be either highspeed catamarans, which would take less than 20 minutes to get to San Francisco, or the more traditional ferryboats, which have a commute time of about 25 minutes, Isaacson said. The ferries can accommodate 400 to 500 people who would pay about IS each for a one-way tick- sage you didnt want from people you dont know on paper they didnt buy." His researcher, Deborah Scnn, said other states considering similar legislation are California, Connecticut, Oregon, Michigan, Minnesota, New York and Maryland. About 2 million of the devices have been sold in the United States in the last few years, she said, and their popularity is growing. This Junk fax problem seems to be on the verge of exploding, Jacobson But Bill McCue, president of Public FAX, an Orange, publisher of a fax directory and trade magazine, contends the problem is largely a creation of news organizations. Because public relations people like to send releases by fax, he said, the appear to be the one Ml to mot month, Laws in works against the Bay Area is there public ac-like this in such an ooen setting? Youd be hard pressed to find something comparable." phtSsiSi Mlv 42 ri a ft Jack London Village shopping rarehouse mall.

The port owns a at the Alice Street site. Kammermeier said Caltrans should make a decision on the grant by the end of June. If it is approved, construction of the station could begin late next year or in early 1991, he said. Train service to the area ended in 1970, when Western Pacific Railroad Co. closed its station at 480 Thinl Street Electric streetcar service in the city was halted in 1958.

I think it would be very good for Oakland and the Eastbay to have these services the Amtrak station, the ferries and the shuttle service on Broadway. We think there could be a real synergy here," Kammermeier Meanwhile, Portside Associates hopes to open 95,000 square feet of new retail space in the square beginning in October, Isaacson said. Wllliams-So-noma Inc. of San Francisco already has agreed to lease 200 square feet of space for two stores selling pottery, tableware and household goods. junk far group that does suffer an inundation of Junk fax.

For everyone else, he said, the media are "making a monumental problem out of nothing. Its a cheap shot It really is." Donna Murdoch, executive director of the American Facsimile Association in Philadelphia, agreed that the problem is overstated. "We ask people, How many pieces of Junk fax are you really getting? she said. "And people say the most they can remember getting is two pieces in a week." But Jacobsen asserted that if Junk fax is not a major problem now, it soon will be. He noted that one maker al- ready is marketing a device that can dial randomly and automatically send advertisements when a connection to a fax machine is made.

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