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SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) – City guides, school staff and students celebrated the Bowes Center of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music on Friday with a first look at the venue and facilities, plus a special performance by cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

“This is an incredibly artistic city compared to where I come from, it’s unimaginable,” said Jess Konye, ​​a technology and applied composition student at SFCM. “When I came back everything is different now. The space means that I can go to school anytime and whenever I want, and that makes me a better musician. “

The Ute and William K. Bowes, Jr. Center for Performing Arts is 165,000 square feet and rises several floors above Van Ness Avenue in the Civic Center. More than $ 130 million has been raised for this project.

“One of the biggest challenges we face in San Francisco is making housing affordable,” said San Francisco Mayor, London Breed. “This project offers students the chance to be housed and not worry about whether or not they have a roof over their heads while they try to study and protect their craft.”

It will host around 400 students, including Konye, ​​who says having access to practice rooms at any time of the day will help her grow as a student in a way she never could before living here. Balancing her schedule and school commitments was a challenge, and she eventually left town during the pandemic.

“We didn’t want to be an obstacle for people who wanted to bring their families with them to hear and experience music,” said SFCM President David Stull.

The venue will offer 90 percent of its concerts to the public for free. The acoustics in the event hall on the 11th floor eliminate all noise from the busy streets below.

“The Bowes Center was built with the future of audio and composition in mind, and the facilities here really support that mission,” said Taurin Barrera, executive director of the Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) program.

TAC and the facilities used by SFCM students include new studios to help students become composers of the 21st century, Barrera said. Your skills will help them work on films, video games, and new media. In addition to music composition, you will also learn computer programming and other technical skills.

“The students had tears in their eyes when you hear how it sounds in this room, when you hear your own music recorded, you really feel the power of the sound in the studio,” he said.

Yo-Yo Ma performs at the Bowes Center. (CBS)

Yo-Yo Ma performed for the audience on Friday morning and spent part of his day working with students in a master class in the afternoon. He said he was impressed with the clarity he heard from his performances at the venue, and also how this will help students find their own creativity.

“If there’s one thing I love about what an institution like the San Francisco Conservatory can do with this new space – the Bowes Center – is create a safe space,” he said.

Located near other arts organizations in the Civic Center that work with the school, the Bowes Center helps students connect and collaborate with other artists in the city. The principals say they want the character of San Francisco to be present throughout the venue, including city hall views from the performance hall and rooftop.

“We can be rooted in the community, interact with the community, interact with the musicians there in these rooms,” Konye said. “I think for me as a student this really means the beginning of a new era for music here at the Conservatory.”

An open day for the public with guided tours and performances throughout the day is planned for February 12, 2022.

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The Mission Street to Lombard Street project will create San Francisco’s first express bus system with dedicated bus lanes, improved boarding, and technology to keep buses moving. It will also replace a 100 year old aqueduct and sewer.

Businesses along the two-mile stretch of San Francisco have long had a different name for Van Ness Avenue.

“It’s a mess,” said Farzin Kaveh, owner of Audio Symphony.

The chaos also caught the attention of the 19-member San Francisco civil jury.

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“With 5-6 years of construction, you can imagine that many of us, including our friends and acquaintances, have asked why Van Ness is taking so long,” said Simone Manganelli, juror and chairman of the Van Ness Investigation Civil Grand Jury.

The recent Civil Grand Jury report found that the cost of the project rose to $ 346 million, which is $ 37 million over budget. This bus service is also scheduled to begin in 2022, three years later than promised.

The city said the delays were due to unexpected findings beneath the surface of Van Ness, but the jury found that the SFMTA could have reduced delays and cost overruns if it had done more before construction began.

“In terms of the design, planning, contracting and pre-building process,” said Manganelli.

The Civil Grand Jury found deficiencies on both the city side and the contractor’s side.

On the municipal side, the jury found that the relocation of bus-S-Bahn lines in the middle of the lane made transit times smoother, but led to delays because existing supply facilities such as water and sewage had to be relocated to the roadside.

The jury also found that the city did not conduct any exploration tours.

“Exploratory potholes would have helped them see how different the official supply maps under Van Ness Avenue were compared to reality,” Manganelli said.

RELATED: SF Companies With Losses During Van Ness Construction Project

On the contractor side, the jury noted that Walsh may have cost less upfront, but not in the long run.

“Walsh and the city didn’t work together the way they wanted on this deal,” said Manganelli.

“They all focused on meticulously resolving these issues with delays and schedules rather than trying to innovate and move the project forward,” he continued.

Something that companies suffering from Van Ness haven’t lost. I interviewed Kaveh again in 2019 and today.

“It’s no longer a welcoming area, people avoid it, so as business owners and other businesses, people don’t come here and you can’t blame them,” said Kaveh.

In a statement sent via email, the SFMTA said, “We appreciate the work of the San Francisco Civil Grand Jury on the Van Ness Improvement Project. It raises certain issues that have been identified in previous internal audits and we are actively working to translate the lessons learned from these issues into successful projects across the city. The SFMTA has resolved several claims made by the contractor regarding the issues in the report, including several where the contractor has acknowledged its shortcomings. We regret that the report does not properly reflect the roles and responsibilities of a general contractor for construction management on a construction project as complex as the Van Ness Improvement Project.

Now that the underground work is complete, we are almost on schedule and on budget for the surface component of the project. Our teams apply the lessons learned from the Van Ness Improvement Project to other projects in our SFMTA portfolio – including the successful Geary Rapid Project. The recent pace of construction above ground also reflects the experience of the contractor and we look forward to working with them on a successful final phase of this project. “

Walsh did not respond to the I-Team’s request for comment.

The agencies named in the Grand Jury report have 60 or 90 days to respond. The board of directors will hold a public hearing as soon as these responses are received.

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