We are going to grow and think about that through generations and apply that locally as part of the community. Thank you so much. This first question is for the entire panel. You discussed what your organization focused on. What are you finding to be the Biggest Challenges you face in this field . Thanks for the question. It is always top of mind to think very much about the people in the community that are the beneficiaries of the work that we do. It is easy to look around to see the challenges. We have income inequality and housing issues, transportation challenges. People commuting long hours. This affects young people. They are working harder than ever to get an education. We want the bay area to be a place to find a great job. Thinking about Young Persons development, there are some challenges that are natural. Curt talked about the Youth Development work. Young people have to have a sense of belonging and attach to a teacher or community organization. They have to be offered the opportunity to develop mastery in mathematics or dance or theater arts. That is character building to help them become the person that they are. Access. I think so many on,s we work with are trying to help young people as they grow into young adults get access to opportunities they might not otherwise find. Those seem to be challenges for any young person. In the bay area we have challenges we need to address collectively with government and nonprofit and Corporate Partners to make this a place where everyone can thrive. As i said, obviously, affordability is a major challenge for us in the region. That is not only seen in housing afford built which we think about and do work in. It also impacts Small Businesses and nonprofits ability to serve the communities that they need to. We are spending a lot of time working on nonprofit capacity building, also Small Business assistance as i said to really make sure that our businesses, our nonprofits and families are able to stay in the neighborhood to keep it diverse and vibrant and have access to all of the sort of resources that they need. I think addressing those challenges is key to us. The other challenge that we have is really coming together around partnership. This is a challenge and opportunity. A great example of this for us has been a Partnership Around chase center training. We were able to partner with the warriors, our colleagues in the city and Nonprofit Sector with labor and contractors to really put together a Training Program to help local residents have access to the skills they need, not just to help build the building but to launch a career in the construction field so they can stay in neighborhoods in San Francisco as we address afford built challenges. Thinking about this in a holistic way is a challenge but gives us a great opportunity for impact. I will take it from the technology angel. Obviously, we are living in unprecedented times in terms of technology advancement. I think if we think about how that affects our community. Wwe are the center of innovation in silicone valley, in San Francisco especially. The world is watching what we are doing. You know, we have to start at home and think what kinds of programs can we do to Leverage Technology and grow skills, to create access. There are a number of programs that we are doing programicly but our employees are applying their own skills to do things in a grassroots roll tear way. Volunteer way. Addressing elementary and middle school and bringing math skills along with emotional skills andd applying to the Basketball Court tolert the critical to learn the critical skills. It is thinking across generations. What about thinking about homelessness in the bay area as well . We are working with back on your feet to take a different approach to homelessness where we have proven that by using a running base model to build up selfesteem and confidence to help people find a new way to jobs and homes and new lives. That is a program we are proud of. There is the grassroots thing we can use our own skills. When the fires hatc happened wed volunteers that went to help. They mobilized forces to be on the ground working and applying consulting skills to make that better to bring to the next recovery we need to go through. There is a Great Program like our researchers going out there to teach preschoolers how to do robotics to get them excited about their next generation skills. There is so much to do to bring that to the next generation. I am looking forward to tackling the challenges and what they will present in the year ahead and this exciting chapter. Can you please give our panelists a round of applause. Thank you for having us. We have a special guest coming to the stage. We will make way for her. A round of applause for the panelists. Thank you so much. It is my honor to welcome the chief champion of the city and number one fan of Golden State Warriors basketball. The San Francisco mayor london breed. [applause. ] mayor breed good morning everybody. Are we all recovering from Stevie Wonder last night . Those who were here, i didnt see a loud applause i assume some of you werent able to make it. It was absolutely amazing. I really want to thank the warriors just for opening up this incredible chase center in style. You know, yesterday when we cut the ribbon to open chase center, we really closed a chapter on this new mission bay community. This community of families, people, businesses, u. C. S. F. , this is absolutely becoming an incredible neighborhood to live in and work in and thrive in. The warriors being here is really icing on the cake. I am so excited about the future of our city because of what this has done for our Business Community, our economy, job growth. We also know that there are so many more challenges we have to overcome. I am going to look to the business communities in the next couple years to help us address what we know are serious challenges. Yes, today is a celebration. Today is about supporting the Warriors Foundation and the work that they do to bridge the gap between the Business Community and neighborhoods throughout San Francisco. In fact, i am really proud what they have already done in refurbishing 70 courts throughout the bay including 15 courts right here in San Francisco. There is more work they will do to make critical investments in improving the lives around San Francisco. There is still work to be done. In fact, after i leave the breakfast this morning, i am headed over to the south of the Market Community to make an announcement about a number of investments we will be making to address what we know is the biggest crisis we face. Yes, homelessness, but also mental illness. It is a very complex issue that we are facing here in our city that we need to address. We in this past budget inn vested over 53 million in addressing Behavioral Health through out San Francisco. We made a critical additional 100 Million Investment in homeless services. It is not just that we need to invest these dollars. We need to make sure that they are effectively delivering on the promises they make to help people that we know who are struggling on our streets, to have a better city, to have a better economy, we have to get at the root cause of these issues to make sure that we are making the changes so that they are changes that we can see and people every single day. I want to take this opportunity to express that the work also including making San Francisco more affordable, making sure that as the jobs increase, as the amazing chase center has opened and an you will of these other incredible opportunities in mission bay exist that we build more housing for people to live here and be able to afford to live here. This fall we have a 600 million Affordable Housing bond that wont raise property taxes so i am sure that should be appealing to so many voters throughout San Francisco. I hope the Business Community would rally around thistic initiative. There is something for everyone low income residents, educators, seniors and middle income families. We have to look at how we are at a city just like we envision mission bay 10, 15 years ago. What we have to think about is what is San Francisco going to look like 10, 15 years from now . How are we going to make the changes we know will make our city better . How will we make sure our streets are cleaner, the Homeless Population is serviced . We have Economic Diversity so people can live here from all economic backgrounds. That means deliberate investments, partnership with the Business Community, supporting the Small Businesses and working together. That is exactly the kind of approach we have already taken with the number of initiatives and investments. I am hoping over the next few months you will begin to see and feel a difference. Already the city is electric. It is electric because when we cut the ribbon, we cut the chanter on we opened the door for a new chapter in mission bay and the opportunity to begin to make San Francisco just really an incredible attraction for so many people and events and a World Class Team that we can be real proud of. I want to thank each and every one of you for supporting the Warriors Foundation, for supporting the chamber. Welcome to the new chase center. Congratulations to rodney fong, the new executive director. I am looking forward to the future and the work to do to make San Francisco an incredible place just like this Amazing Center you are enjoying here this morning. Thank you all so much. [applause. ] thank you very much, mayor breed, we celebrate the opening of chase center. I invite you to welcome to the stage the San Francisco chamber of commerce board chair and chief revenue officer, john gingrich. Get ready. Thank you all for being here today. Nice to see a lot of Friendly Faces in the crowd. I serve as board chair for the San Francisco chamber of commerce. I do want to say thank you to all of the sponsors and especially my former colleagues. Thank you for being the presenting sponsor today. The San Francisco chamber is excited to watch the Business Community grow throughout mission bay and here with the retail, restaurants, public plaza and office space. Also the chase center, this amazing venue which is going to create thousands of jobs and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and Economic Growth for San Francisco. Happy to have this here. I spent a number of years working with the warriors to see this come to fruition. It is amazing. I am happy we are here welcoming everyone to chase center. You also probably know the Economic Growth will be fueled not only by the warriors, our Basketball Team here, but through top recording artists. Some of the acts coming up include janette jackson, elton john and the San Francisco symphony and metallica on friday. I hope you experience the first concert here as well. I would like to recognize the Wonderful Partnership over the years between the Golden State Warriors and chamber. It dates back to the early days of the team looking to build an arena in San Francisco and it is hitting a new high with our welcome together and our event today as we welcome the warriors to San Francisco. Thank you, warriors, for being a great sponsor and partner over the years and we look forward to many more years to come. I am delighted to welcome the next panel. These folks need no introduction. Please welcome joe, rick, president and coo of the warriors, bob meyers, general manager of the warriors, c. E. O. And the moderator bob fitzgerald, the play by play announcer of the Golden State Warriors. Welcome, guys. [applause. ] if you are going to San Francisco be sure to wear some flowers in your hair. How many people are morning people . Do we have any morning people . 25 years in the nba we are nighttime people. These are amazing. I was thinking just sitting here the building got built. How many people lived here longer than 15 years . Raise your hand. Did you honestly think privately financed in San Francisco for 1. 6 billion, the ultimate arena in the world would be built right here . Anybody believe that . We are here. Lets start with joe on that. The ribboncutting yesterday. This is a sieve vick asset civic asset. This is the camp fire for 2019, a Gathering Place for sports and entertainment. Can you believe it is here in believe me your thoughts that friday night metallica kicks it off . It is surreal, to be honest. Yesterday was quite the day, thanks to rick and kim and all of the people that made this place happen. It is amazing that it went off as well as it did given how hard of a process this has been to get done. It is here. It is real, and we are just incredibly proud as a team and organization for it to be done. I hope you enjoy it as much as we already enjoy it. I dont view it as done. There are a few more things to do. Rick, you talked where the warriors fit as community citizen. We had great presentations today on what impact this will have for the bay area. Walking around i see art everywhere within the whole concourses and outside, restaurants activated over the next year, a park, ferry service, so much where this will be a new destination spot for San Francisco. Yesterday was a great day. We christened a couple of new San Francisco land be marks that will take the place on the set here in the future. We started with presenting the art installation as part of the huge commitment to public art here. For those who didnt come in that way, i want you to walk around the whole three plus acres before you leave today and really see the whole depth of the art presentation around this place. I texted joe a couple mornings ago. I was here really early. Something that summed it up. Rick, you are always here. A little cot back here. I happened to walk into the building and two parents and their kid were riding by on a bicycle. Just as they passed me, this kid yelled out to his parents, i cant believe how many days in my life i am going to spend in that building. Wow. Right . That is what these are. These are places for basketball games, concerts. Stevie wonder was there last night. Ultimately they are places to create memories and influence our lives. I wouldnt be sitting up here today if i didnt go to the games at the old come seumwith coliseum with my dad. If i asked all of you where and who did you see for your first concert, nine out of 10 could answer that question because it is part of your life that goes on forever. That is what we are in the business of doing, creating memories. This place is going to be a very special place for that i will attribute to the morning and lack of coffee. The warriors we had nice applause. This is the greatest five year run in the history of the nba, most wins ever. 63 739. Five straight trips to the finals, three championships and a guy who actually went to the coliseum as a kid is the president of basketball operations, bob meyers, the next chapter of the warriors, eight new players the practice facilities right here on site. Give us the basketball perspective and the excitement of the new roster and new goal to keep it going. It is interesting to hear you. I have to remind myself what everyone has accomplished. I do it every morning when i brush my teeth because i had 20 other years that werent as great as the last five. Joe trained me so look ahead. I dont know if i get to look back. We are moving forward. We won the championship. I remember the joe moment we won in cleveland, i guess that was 2017, and we have a party and i kind of went in. It is the one night where you feel like you can pause and enjoy it. Joe is sitting there at the table. He says sit down. What do you think about the draft . What are we doing in a week . Can we just not for tonight study any film tonight. Yes, i am proud of the last five years as everyone should be that supports our team. Heading to this building i think it is appropriate that we are bringing a lot of new players into a fantastic new building. It was a time. I loved oracle. I think you probably felt the same way. We have our favorite old pair of tennis shoes or sweater. Eventually you have to give that up. It doesnt mean it didnt serve you well. There is a time for a new sweater or shoes. This is a pretty damn good one here. You will be introduced to a lot of new players. I dont know how it fits. That is the joy of it all. We took a puzzle and now we will put it together. We have great cornerstones. We are adding russell and a lot of youth. We went from second or third oldest to the second or third youngest team. It is all going to happen here. I am so excited as a basketball fan. When people ask about chase center the thing that comes to my mind is i cant wait to watch a basketball game here. I just cant wait. The associations with rackets we wear the badge proudly on our jerseys, it made the wo warriors global. How does chase center enhance that and add to that association . There is no doubt the association with the warriors held records. We look at a couple different dimensions. We set out on the goal three years ago to become a household name like we have in japan. We felt there were a couple things to do. We had to connect with consumers and find ways to do that. When you look at the history, there is a lot of sports in how we do that. To raise our Brand Recognition and awareness which was zero before the warriors. It has helped inputting ourselves on the map to start the journey with consumers. We strongly believe in hospitality and building relationships with businesses and the partners that we work with. This provides a great platform. We believe our success is success of the partners and together we win. It is aligned with empowerment plant forge. Last but not least is our employees, our people. When we started we had skeptics. We had to convert our people. Our people are the ones who will take us on the jennie of putting our a long journey of putting ourselves on the map. I cant tell you how much of a change it was when we announced the partnership with the warriors. We suddenly had believers and people wanting to be part of the journey. For us this partnership and association has been tremendously successful on many different fronts. When you think about chase we feel like this is just another step in that mission. We feel like this venue may get remembered or called upon as a sports and entertainment arena. We think of this as a symbol of innovation and optimism. I think those two things are things that the warriors and Founding Partners share in common. We are extremely proud about the association we have. Superexcited about the venue. Like bob, i can not wait to fill this thing up. I see throwing down a threepointer. Bring it on. We have seating arranged. Joe has never attempt with skeptics. This guy bought the team and pointed in front of 20,000 people that is a lonely championship banner we want another one. Everyone said lets have a winning record. Lets build a new building and make it stateoftheart and set the standard for entertainment venue anywhere in the world. People said come on. Now the next thing is you are saying supports and entertainment company. I hear that with 40 or 50 basketball games but 200 events. People dont realize the warriors are running everything from the converts, concessions, parking, sponsorships. What does sports and entertainment mean for the company and the team . You have to have something to strive for. You cant it is on your laurels, bob. I have to go back to the office now. laughter you know what is really interesting about this effort and opening this building is what a lot of you dont entirely understand. In oakland, we were tenants. We rented the building. Most of the employees you ran into were not hours. We didnt have a lot of control. There was only one kitchen. It is a very, very facility, great place for a Basketball Team with a lot of great history. This is a whole new thing for us. Rick has done an amazing job. Bob has done an amazing job, too, so far. Rick has done an equally amazing job. The fact not only getting the building built while we were building a Business Organization up, doing well on the court but getting the place built and hiring the people. We 500 employees. We run all of this. This is a whole new this. This is a challenge to make this operate smoothly. I was worried. Last night i was like i wonder what it will sound like, the entrance and exit. Friday should be the ultimate challenge meltta metallyca and e symphony. We have to transform to your question as an organization completely. This is a whole new thing not just a Basketball Team. We are Sports Entertainment operation. We have to run the things going on, restaurants outside, ingress, egress, so many things we have to do. If we can do that Going Forward we can do more. We can maybe become a bigger organization to do more things. Now, rick, with the warriors there are two football teams and two baseball teams one basketball name. The golden state name is in the entire area. You were involved in the Community Coming together for this. You think of the entire bay area. Where the warriors fit in the community and the community as septs and resources it took for this building with the kid righting buyin the bike the touchstone of memories for everybody in the bay area for years and years, give me a thought how people pulled together from all different communities knowing this is the new spot. The warriors are representing the entire bay area. That is what i said all last year. Our whole organization did. We were leaving a of course, not leaving a city. Oakland is an integral part who we are and will remain that way in the future. One of the things i am most proud of iskaiser permanente. All of our offices are here as of now. We moved everybody here from downtown oakland headquarters which was our practice facility. We have this amazing facilities to repurpose. With kaiser we are taking those Basketball Courts that had to be reserved for players. We will teach more kids to play basketball and taking the business offices and repurposing those for the not for profits the war warriors sut for space where they are focused on different aspects trying to improve educational and career outlooks for kids. It is powerful. We have one if the in the east bay. The other foment now is firmly planted here. This always will be the bay area team. [applause. ] very well said. Before you had joe breathing down your neck, you were a player agent, and you know in terms of different perceptions, different cities have and the warriors have changed that perception in this building now adds to it. When you deem with colleague deal with colleagues around the league and you see the practice facility overlooking the bay and see the amount of every asset that could be there for our players within the basketball operations campus right here. How does that enhance where the warriors it is within the nba . Speaking of my prior life as an agent, you get a sense from the players standpoint what organizations speak to them and places they would like to go, and i remember as an agent i was talking to a client. I said golden state wants to work out and the guy looked at me and said what is that . I said the warriors are in california. He said yeah, yeah, i have to work out for them . I said it is a high pick. This is 10, 15 years ago. It is amazing now to see what we have become and really testament to joe and people like rick that spearhead this thing. When you are in the position i am in with intense pressure from an owner like joe you want the tools to succeed. Pressure is fine. Everybody that chooses this job. Joe, pressure is to embraced. If you are afraid of it you should probably do a different job, buts when you are out there in the world of trying to recruit four or five or 10 of the best people at what they do, you better come with something very good. You better come with good ownership, good coach, pay these guys. You better provide a great place to go to work. Even if you do that it is hard. With this arena, i feel like we are now able to check all of the boxes. If we lose a player it is not because we are de efficient in a area. Sometimes they go another way. If we dont want to lose any ties. I think a place like that you win every tie. I dont care how cynical. Players are young with great options. Take any player in the league walking in the locker room that you may or may not have seen. They will say wow, this is prettpretty good. When you can provide a place to work where they can get excited to go. Those excited to go to your job knew what that feels like. You perform better. Thank you to everybody that built this place. It is unbelievable. The construction workers. I dont know how many thousands it is going to help our Basketball Team to win more wherever the banners are up there. More of those. I want to add one thing. You have done a great job, really. Great job, however, we can keep going on the next question. I want to say one thing thiss is the San Francisco chamber of commerce, is it not . We must remember we do have a goal here. We have a new goal. That is to bring a championship to San Francisco in this building. [applause. ] why basketball . I see in rick welch the architect of the dream team the first professionals in the olympics. That spawned others the 7 billion people in the world we watched the most talented 450 individuals. It is a team sport where they say great athletes do for themselves. Really greatness is doing for others. What is it about basketball . You enhanced the nba in addition to the partnership of the warriors. Sports in what we do. Iin japan weep we own champions. You know, we love the association with organizations like this and the nba because there is a crossover between the values when you think about it from a business standpoint and sports standpoint. You can have the best players in the world, best employees and talent in the world. If they dont come together as a team, you will get beat. If they are not innovating on the court and we are trying to innovate in business, you are going to get beat by somebody else. If you are not putting in the extra hours, you are not going to be successful. For us there is so much, so much between the businesses that we are in and then that connection point with the fans. There is that passion, emotion that sports brings. That is when we feel like we can connect with people in a very authentic and meaningful way. We believe sports is the way to do that. We seek out opportunities within sports to find that connection. We are very fortunate to be able to take that globally. Joe, the final word you said in addition. That was the final word. It is your building. I will let you finish. With two with two 00 events 0 events. You wanted to hear feedback for any event here. I would like to give joe the opportunity to give his cell phone to anybody. If you have any issues starting on friday, this is the guy. He said he wants to hear about everything in the building. I think given the bay area starting friday you will hear a lot of feedback. You will get exactly what you were hoping for. How many years have you worked for the team, bob . 25. I want to make sure. Look, the truth is rick will take your calls. laughter we would both take your calls is the truth. Anything you see that is wrong with this building, anything that you are not being treated properly, it is on us. We want to make this not only a great Basketball Team and great building to look at. We want to make this a great experience to everyone in the building. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to improve it. Chamber breakfast is fun. It signifies the beginning of basketball season. As we finish up. October 5th lakers in this building. The first basketball game. Thanks for having us. We appreciate the support. Open up chase center the right way. Thank you very much. [applause. ]. Shop and dine the 49 promotes loophole businesses and changes residents to do thirds shopping and diane within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local services we help San Francisco remain unique and successful where will you shop and dine shop and dine the 49. My name is neil the general manager for the book shop here on west portal avenue if San Francisco this is a neighborhood bookstore and it is a wonderful neighborhood but it is an interesting community because the residents the neighborhood muni loves the neighborhood it is community and we as a book sincerely we see the same people here the shop all the time and you know to a certain degree this is part of their this is created the neighborhood a place where people come and subcontract it is in recent years we see a drop off of a lot of bookstores both National Chains and neighborhoods by the Neighborhood Stores where coming you dont want to one of the great things of San Francisco it is neighborhood neighborhood have dentist corrosive are coffeehouses but 2, 3, 4 coffeehouses in month neighborhoods that are on their own thats my son and i was living in my car. We was in and out of shelters in San Francisco for almost about 3. 5 years. I would take my son to school. We would use a public rest room just for him to brush his teeth and do a quick little wipeoff so it seemed he could take a shower every day. It was a very stressful time that i wish for no one. My name is mario, and i have lived in San Francisco for almost 42 years. Born here in hayes valley. I applied for the San Francisco Affordable Housing lottery three times. My son and i were having to have a great happened to have a great lottery number because of the neighborhood preference. I moved into my home in 2014. The neighborhood preference goal was what really allowed me to stay in San Francisco. My favorite thing is the view. On a clear day, im able to see city hall, and on a really clear day, i can see salesforce tower. We just have a wonderful neighborhood that we enjoy living in. Being back in the neighborhood that i grew up in, its a wonderful, wonderful experience. Now, we can hopefully reach our goals, not only single mothers, but single fathers, as well, who are living that. Live your dream, live your life, well, well, we have one of the most exciting projects in district 11 in over a decade. Supervisor safai, for the past 10 years, no one has been able to get a Housing Project of this significance built in this community, and guess what . You made it happen. [applause. ] 116 new units, 50 affordable units for family of four making up to 123,000 a year. How incredible is that . This will provide housing for low income families and for foster care youth. I mean, this is how you get housing done in San Francisco, working together, working in partnership with sammy and people who love. The fact is people who love this community and didnt have to go above and beyond in providing higher affordability on this project but wanted to do something to support the city and county of San Francisco and what we are dealing with as it relates to our housing crisis. We are grateful for you and the community is here, and i also know your family is here. I am so excited. This will make a difference. On top of that, that is not even all. 40 of the units that are built of the Affordability Housing will go to the people who live in this neighborhood first, neighborhood preference. The legislation that i worked on back in the day when i was on the board of supervisors. It is going to be used on this project so that we can make sure that the community who lives here, where they might be struggling to hold on to their unit and whatever capacity, they will have a real shot of being a part of this incredible new community. I am excited about this project. I am grateful to supervisor safai for his leadership. I cant wait to be here when we open the doors for people to walk in their new places, and it is absolutely amazing. The person who led this effort to make this happen, who also did more than just help get this project through the process but also makes some zoning changes to make it possible to have as many units as we can on his site no other than supervisor safai. [applause. ] supervisor safai thank you, mayor breed. I feel like i am at a family reunion, but i did joke with sia and sammy i think we could put a runway strip here. This is the Largest Development in the history of this neighborhood in this community. There has never been any family Affordable Housing built in this community. I remember sitting with them a decade ago when they laid out the vision of wanting to do something to give back to the city that they feel made their family anal and lifted them back up after going through a revolution in their country they. They came here with very little and they have worked 50 years to build what we are seeing happen today. This is truly a gift to the city and county of San Francisco. This is not something that is required. This is completely private land, privately financed by a family that wanted to give back to the city. I want to say thank you to the family for everything and you will their children and siblings and relatives for everything they did to make this happen. It is truly a gift. This even out paces the giants Ballpark Development omission rock, which is 40 affordable on public land. 50 will below market rate. Homesf set the income. He said he wanted lower than what we laid out in the city. We tried to do the remaining 50 as rent control. Sometimes the city gets in its way. I know they will continue to keep these rents affordable for this community. They are doing so much to give back to the city and county. We talked about this over a decade ago. We sat down with mayor lee before i became supervisor. He said he would prioritize this. The reason i bring that up is because this mayor has made not anything more of a priority than building housing. That was when we sat down with mayor lee, that was in the middle of 2016. We are going to the end of 2019. Even with everything that and i would get monday my phone would ring. Every monday i would get the call from him and family members. We are still over three years into getting this project done. This was supposed to be one of the highest priority projects in the city and county of San Francisco. I know this mayor is dedicated to finding a way to cut through the layers. When a family wants to give a gift to the city, we have to wait almost three and a half years to get this done. Besides all of that, i want to shout out to crazio. She guided this every step of the way on behalf of the Mayors Office. My team was guiding this every step of the way. The planning department, the Mayors Office of housing, city attorneys, all of the people working on behalf of the mayor. There is more to come, there are two more projects that are 100 affordable. She dedicated an additional 53 million in the budget. We break ground in october next year on two more projects. Out of all of those together, almost 600 units, 65 will be affordable below market rate units in this community and affordable to the People Living here. That is a big accomplishment. I am so lucky to have a partner in the Mayors Office who prioritizes this Community Like no mayor has done in over 20 plus years. [applause. ] i could go on and on. I will hand it over to the patriarch of the family, the mind that doesnt let any little thing get away from him, but he has to be that way. Three and a half years, he has to be that way. Someone was bragging about him the other day. He knows how to get projects built in San Francisco. He really does. I am honored to have him as a friend and invest in this community. [applause. ] thanks everyone. Mayor, my good friend, supervisor and my family and everybody who is here. This wouldnt have happened without participation of everyone for this to happen. He is right i call every monday morning. If i wouldnt have done it, it would have taken seven years. This happened in three andahalf years. I want to tell a story about my life, how i am here. I came with my wonderful life about 40 years as an immigrant from iran. I have been here 1973 i came here to San Francisco. I was a student and i fell in love with the city. I still love this city. I always said we have got to do something. Whatever i have, i got it through hard work. Being in this wonderful diversified city. We talked a lot about it. This came about in 2007 when there was a melt down and i was able to purchase these. That is when me and sammy, she is an advocat of foster and homeless kids. This came about. I said maybe we can do something about it. Finally here we are. Thernext step is the foundationd get the super structure. I want to thank the wonderful mayor. I am so proud of you. You are a wonderful mayor. You are a great person. I want to tell my brotherinlaw who designed this property, my kids and this is all my family. I love them all. It is great to be here. Too many persons. laughter . It is a great thing. I am so blessed. I asked my wife to be by my side. If i make a mistake she will say stage right. I think i have done go, right . She gave me a list and said memorize this. I said i will do this. That is not me, i have to talk how i feel. That is how i do it, you know. [applause. ] i want to thank the Mayors Office of housing. Wonderful job. I forgot about my wonderful friend tom. He is a big support. Thanks a lot
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