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OA-43
<br />Mims! Hotel, Inc Miotel Hotel Inc. ( "Miotel ") owns one Taxable Parcel in the District and is
<br />responsible for approximately 6.4% of the annual Special Taxes. The parcel is the site for Sofitel San
<br />Francisco Bay, a 415 -room luxury hotel constructed in the late 1980's. The Sofitel includes two
<br />restaurants, a piano bar, fitness facilities and over 6,500 square feet of mee'ing and banquet facilities.
<br />Ninety-six of the rooms were added in 1999. Sofitel leases the site from Miotel under a long -term
<br />operating lease.
<br />Sofitel's parent company, ACCOR, Inc., is headquartered in Paris, France. ACCOR, Inc. is the
<br />world's third largest hotel chain and owns and operates hotels in Europe, Asia, North America and
<br />South America. Sofltel is also a subsidiary of ACCOR, Inc. Sofitel, which has participated in the in
<br />the United States hotel market since approximately 1985, operates hotels in Chicago, Houston, Los
<br />Angeles, Minneapolis, Miami, New York, Philadelphia and Washington DC. Additional information
<br />about Sofitel can be found on the Internet at www.sofitel.com The website address is given for
<br />reference and convenience only, the information on the website may be incomplete or inaccurate and
<br />has not been reviewed by the City or the Underwriter. Nothing on the website is a part of this Official
<br />Statement or incorporated into this Official Statement by reference.
<br />Metropolitan life Insurance Company. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ( "MetLife ") is
<br />responsible for approximately 5.4% of the annual Special Taxes MetLife owns property on which two
<br />four -story office buildings totaling 239,400 square feet were constructed in the mid 1980's. The office
<br />buildings are both Class A, water -front properties that are typically fully occupied. Tenants in the
<br />Med1fe building, which generally are a variety of smaller -sized businesses, include Emory Worldwide,
<br />Charles Schwab & Company, New Rivets, Oracle, and Patio Life.
<br />MetLife and its affiliates provide life, health, disability, auto, and homeowner's insurance, as
<br />well as retirement plans and related services to individual and group clients. MetLife is also involved
<br />in a wide range of office buildings, hotels, and industrial properties, the direct acquisition of real estate,
<br />and the financing of existing properties on an intermediate term basis. Additional information can be
<br />found at its homepage on the Internet at www.medife.com. The website address is given for reference
<br />and convenience only, the information on the website may be incomplete or inaccurate and has not been
<br />reviewed by the City or the Underwriter. Nothing on the website is a part of this Official Statement or
<br />incorporated into this Official Statement by reference.
<br />Oracle Systems Corporation. The largest landowner in the District is Oracle Systems
<br />Corporation ( "Oracle "), whose eight parcels in the District were allocated approximately 30% of the
<br />District's Special Tax burden, however in November 2000 Oracle prepaid in full the District's Special
<br />Taxes attributable to such parcels. Accordingly, Bonds are not being issued with regard to the Special
<br />Taxes so prepaid and the security for the Bonds does not include these parcels. The information
<br />presented below concerning Oracle is presented only for the purpose of providing information on
<br />development and business activity in the District
<br />Oracle's headquarters facilities are on property it owns (or controls pursuant to sale - leaseback
<br />arrangements or real estate partnerships) within the District The Oracle complex, which include
<br />administrative, marketing and research and development facilities, are housed in seven fully- occupied
<br />office buildings and a conference center. The sites underneath the headquarters and conference center
<br />consist of the parcels in the District which Oracle and its affiliates owns, and one of which Oracle has
<br />full effective control pursuant to a sale - leaseback arrangement
<br />Oracle is the world's second largest software company and the leading provider of state- of -the-
<br />art global e- business solutions for Internet commerce and Web -based applications. Oracle designs,
<br />develops, markets and supports computer software products with a wide variety of uses, including
<br />database management and network products, applications development productivity tools, and end
<br />user applications. With annual revenues exceeding $9.1 billion, the company offers its Internet
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