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Project manager Mark Brennan said the family development business wouldx have had to paybetween $5 million and $6 milliojn in city fees just to pull permits on the which was to include 62 apartments and a 34,0000 square foot Whole Foods. The developmentt fees cover everything from an affordabler housing to San Francisco Unifiesd School District to the PublicUtilitied Commission. “It’s prohibitive,” said Brennan. "Wde just took a look at the marker and our own budget and every time we came up with a the feeswere prohibitive.
” Brennan blamecd the city's rigorous 32-month entitlement process that starte d in February of 2006, when the economy was and did not end until Octobef 2008, when the global financial crisis was in full swing. “Thise project should have started ayear ago. It’s ridiculous,” he said “If this had startec when it was supposed to start we would have already turned the shell over toWhole Foods.
We would be But the financing will be difficult to get Brennan said his family is in talks with Whole Foodx about possibly building out a smallerr specialty grocery store in theexistinbg 23,600 square foot building, but that no deal has been The building was home to Cala Foods until the storr closed in May of 2006.