Forth, and fifth grade next year bring them out and if you have middle school kids, we are starting a team for middle school. You know why . Why . Because we are . Bayview united. Thats right. Shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco. By supporting local Services Within our neighborhoods, we help San Francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. So where will you shop and dine in the 49 . My name is ray behr. I am the owner of chief plus. Its a destination Specialty Foods store, and its also a Corner Grocery store, as well. We call it cheese plus because theres a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. From fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and espresso bar. You can have a casual meeting if you want to. Its a Real Community gathering place. What makes little polk unique, i think, first of all, its a great pedestrian street. Theres people out and about all day, meeting this neighbor and coming out and supporting the businesses. The businesses here are almost all exclusively independent owned Small Businesses. It harkens back to supporting local. Polk street doesnt look like anywhere u. S. A. It has its own businesses and personality. We have Clothing Stores to gallerys, to personal service stores, where you can get your hsus repaired, luggage repaired. Theres a music studio across the street. Its raily a diverse and unique offering on this really great street. I think san franciscans should shop local as much as they can because they can discover things that they may not be familiar with. Again, the marketplace is changing, and, you know, you look at a screen, and you click a mouse, and you order something, and it shows up, but to have a tangible experience, to be able to come in to taste things, to see things, to smell things, all those things, its very important that you do so. Welcome back to 49 hang on , have you seen our first video . If not, click on the link before in the description and watch before you watch this one. Welcome back to 49 south van ness. We are excited to show you around today as we have now topped out and we are well underway for construction. Early in june this year, we had a topping out ceremony. It was the very last steel beam that was placed at the roof penthouse level. We had a number of speakers who came to join us. It was a great event and we cant wait to show you what is going on inside. [ ] what has happened in the last year is Steel Construction is now topped out at the top. Down below us, as you can see, as a full foundation. The basement is almost complete. We have concrete, we have steel, we have framing, we have a little bit of everything. To get started, i would love to walk you through what we call the form. It is a really exciting new way to get from here into 49 south then ness. It is a new Public Open Space that cuts through the walking allows people to walk through there and gives the civic Building Three or more ways to be connected to this really big block. [ ] we are in the pavilion gallery. Right behind me as south van ness. It is very close to the street. You will see a curved wall with an l. E. D. Screen. This space will be used for a number of different purposes. It will be also one of the most prominent spaces in this building. We are here in the main atrium lobby. Behind me here, there are the grand stairs that will eventually be fully finished with wood and this will go to the level to permit center. Welcome to the permit center. We are now on the second floor of the building. The permit center is the driver for this project. Picture this. I am a plan checker and im sitting on the inside of the permitting counter. And i am a member of the public, and i get to come in here and enjoy this big, open, beautiful space as well as tables and chairs behind to open up my plans, review them. The terrace is just outside. Tons of windows, daylight views. It is very exciting upgrades and improvements. [ ] now were on level three, which has a really great building amenity, the childcare center. In fact, we are standing at the terrace, or the outdoor space that is connected to the childcare center. The kids will have access to a huge area for playspace, as well as a really nice interior space for three classrooms. When the kids are out here playing, they will get a very close up view of the historical clock tower. A some of you may have seen, we have preserved a historic clock tower that one point was the cocacola bottling plant, so we have tried to integrate this into our building and thoughtful and meaningful ways, and preserve some of the character of the site. [ ] the two have so the tower joined in the center. The idea was to create a scene where all of the collaboration spaces can rise vertically to the architecture is a public as the public comes to the Office Building, they are physically within a public realm, but visually connected to the inner workings. The theme is going to be a Collaborative Center that includes an atrium nested by a series of stairs. This is the bottom of the threestory stack. At the bottom of this, would be a collaborative breakout space where you can have meetings, have lunches, just talk to your coworkers. [ ] we have Conference Rooms throughout the building, including the Coffee Center and the Training Center which will be used by staff and potentially for things like city hearings. There are a lot of amenities in the building that make it really be unique really unique and special. [ ] one of the unique aspects of the building is it is clad in eight and a system that will adjust the intensity of the tent of the glass as the sun moves around it and is whether patinas weather patterns change. Everything from the glazing that covers the glazing, to the water system, were really excited to bring this tower to San Francisco. [ ] it is a pretty exciting project. A civic Office Building for the city of San Francisco. It is pretty unique. I dont believe the city has built a new building of this type in at least 50 years. Were really excited to partner with the city to create a new experience for you and for all of us. Thank you so much for joining us today. We hope you really enjoyed the tour inside the construction of 49 south of then ness. Watch our next episode when we give you another update on the projects being that see next time. [ ] [laughter] hi, in San Francisco were doing a special series called stay safe, about staying in your home after an earthquake. And today were going to be talking about the Neighborhood Support Center to help people find new resources when they stay in their home. Were here at the urban center in San Francisco with sarah karlewski, Deputy Director of spur. Were talking about the shelter, a safe place to stay, exhibition at their center. And part of being able to shelter in place in your home is to be able to find a place nearby where you can get the services that you might not have in your home. And thats what this little Neighborhood Support Center is for. Thats right. What are some of the services that might be provided in a Neighborhood Center like this . Yeah. So, we think of the Neighborhood Support Centers as really being homes away from home. So, after a major earthquake there is going to be a lot of confusion. People are going to need to try to meet up with other people. Theyre going to need a lot of information. So, a lot of what the Neighborhood Support Center is going to provide is that information. Basically were going to be like a hub where people can come to get services, help, information, et cetera. What you see here on this table are a whole variety of did you ever rent things from tools, some walkitalkies. This helps people know what is going on in their neighborhood. Over here you have a whole variety of water and canned goods. Were really hoping that people will stock up for themselves at least for the first 72 hours if not more. I know that i have a ton of canned food and other sorts of things such as water within my own home. And everybody should, but theres going to come a time where people are going to end up running out and needing more. So, thats what weve got right here. So, this Neighborhood Support Center, this doesnt look to be a major city sponsored fully stocked space. It can be a small commercial space, even somebodys garage as long as they have the information, a guide of information, who to call for what, communications equipment, some power, have a generator. Thats right. Thinking of lights and charge your cell phones and so on. And probably be operated by volunteers. Volunteers, maybe members of nert could help out, people who live in the neighborhood that have some building skill could be helpful. So, if there is a Structural Engineer living nearby or even an architect, they could really help people kind of understand what has happened to their homes and what sort of repairs might be needed. Here we are with some of the things that you might find in a Neighborhood Support Center. One thing we learned from hurricane katrina, people really rely on their portable electronics and their phone. We say heres a charging station tied up to the generation. The essential coffeepot. Yes. Maybe a computer, you can check your email with. Yes. We have our charging station here. And then over here you can see weve got a whole variety of things, including the allimportant different tags. So, lawrence, do you want to talk a little about the tags . Sure. People want to know what do these tags mean. Is my building safe or unsafe. These are the city owe initial tags. Staying in your home doesnt require that you get a tag. It just means that you use common sense and maybe get help from people who might be around who can help you evaluate whether its a safe place to stay. You might want to know because regular City Services are disrupted, you might want to know when trash pick up is, if you need to get clean water, et cetera. Also in the Neighborhood Support Center, that kind of information would be available and weve got a little of that up here. Trash pick up resumes regular schedule on wednesday. Thats right. Please mark your human waste. Thats right. So, this is kind of an information center, communication center, also a center that hopefully will show people how to relate to their neighboring communities, what else is happening citywide. And, of course, this is sort of the ubiquitous form of communication. My cat is missing, call me. Exactly, because a lot of times, even if you do have a cell phone, and people do if youre really trying to save some of your Precious Energy minutes, et cetera, or its not working as well as it normally does, it is helpful to have a message board that you can get information to other people. And, so, thats what were showing here. You can see people are going to be looking for their pets. Theyre going to be looking for rides. People are going to need to be sharing resources a much as they possibly can. Another thing that you can see here is theyre going to need to be fair tools and some of the things that people are going to need in order to be able to stay safer within their homes. So, were just showing sort of a gesture to that with all these different tools here. But then also tarps, people are going to need to cover their windows if their windows are cracked, if their roofs are broken. So, ideally, the city would be able to know where all these Neighborhood Centers are and help deliver some of these supplies. They could come from a neighbor, maybe not. Thank you so much for allowing us to come in and share this wonderful exhibit. And thank you for once i got the hang of it a little bit, you know, like the first time, i never left the court. I just fell in love with it and any opportunity i had to get out there, you know, they didnt have to ask twice. You can always find me on the court. [ ] we have been able to participate in 12 athletics wheelchairs. They provide what is an expensive tool to facilitate basketball specifically. Behind me are the amazing golden state road warriors, which are one of the most competitive adaptive basketball teams in the state led by its captain, chuck hill, who was a National Paralympic and, and is now an assistant coach on the national big team. It is great to have this opportunity here in San Francisco. We are the main hub of the bay area, which, you know, we should definitely have resources here. Now that that is happening, you know, i im looking forward to that growing and spreading and helping spread the word that needs that these people are here for everyone. I think it is important for people with disabilities, as well as ablebodied, to be able to see and to try different sports, and to appreciate trying different things. People can come and check out this chairs and use them. But then also friday evening, from 6 00 p. M. Until 8 00 p. M. , it will be wheelchair basketball we will make sure it is available, and that way people can no that people will be coming to play at the same time. We offer a wide variety of adaptive and inclusion programming, but this is the first time we have had our own equipment. Good morning everybody. Thank you. It brings me such joy, gratitude, pleasure to welcome you to the rededication of ellis gardens. I hope you will join me in welcoming to the podium our mayor, london breed. Mayor breed i thought you were going to the project and talk a little about it. Fine, i will get started. Thank you everyone for being here today. I am excited about this project. This is the city and county of San Francisco working hard to fulfill a promise. A promise to so many people who live throughout San Francisco in Public Housing, in conditions that no one should have to live in. A few years back when i first started as a member of the board of supervisors, i met with mayor ed lee to talk about priorities. My number one, two, three priority as supervisor was Public Housing in San Francisco as a whole, not just my district. Mayor lee supported the fact that we needed to do Something Different because the kinds of conditions that existed for so many years and the amount of money that we received, there was no way to get to a better place. Over 20 years of my life in plaza east, i live in those conditions. The neglect, the bathrooms that didnt work, the mold, the conditions that you live in when you have had to live that way for over 20 years is something you never forget. This is why nothing is more important to me than changing the kinds of conditions that people live in. Here with 94 units of housing for people who are part of our very vulnerable community, our seniors, People Living with disabilities, people who have challenges, not only physically sometimes but also many of our low income residents. They deserve the kind of place that exists here today. They deserve to live in conditions where when they flush the toilet it will work. Where they have showers and some of the most basic things that some people take for granted. They have pest control so that they dont have to deal with the kinds of conditions that existed in the city in some places around Public Housing for far too long. When we brought in the program there were so many people who were skeptical. They were worried about displacement, what happened in the city in the past. There were some mistakes made in the past. I continue to go back to my own personal experience of living in Public Housing 300 units torn down and only 200 units built. Yes, a lot of people i grew up with were not given the opportunity to come back. That is why it is so important that we have partners and we work with each resident individually to help them understand that this is about them and to make the move and the transition while we are renovating these places as smooth as possible. That we make sure we are able to gain their trust and their support. In this city we have demonstrated through this program that we can be trusted to do the kinds rehabilitation work that is desperately needed to make sure people are living in great conditions, people are living in the kinds of conditions that they deserve. I just want to thank tndc for being our partners, for doing the work with compassion. This place, i dont know if you have been in here before. What we see now, i am overwhelmed by the walls and floors and everything i see today. It is so amazing. We know that San Francisco continues to have so many challenges. Yes, we have to build more housing because we know even outside these doors, sadly, there are people struggling with homelessness. We also have to make sure that we are taking care of the people who deserve a safe affordable place to call home. Preservation of existing Affordable Housing, building new housing in this city, that is what we have to do to make San Francisco a better place for each and every one of us. I am so grateful to be here, so proud of this work of this project, and i want to thank the people from project managers, to the financing. It does take a village that is expensive to do and to do rehappentation work in San Francisco. We rehabilitation work in San Francisco. I am happy for the residents. Congratulations on this incredible property and thank you, don, for all of the work you continue to do. This is not our first project together and it definitely wont be our last. [applause. ] i know i speak for a lot of people when i say we are grateful for your leadership, mayor. Join me in welcoming louise. [applause. ] good morning. I am the president of the ellis gardens council. I want to thank the mayor london breed for making it happening for providing housing. I came to San Francisco in 1962, when i was 12 years old from el salvador. Most of my life i lived in the Mission District before losing my housing. Thankfully, there was room for me at ellis gardens in 2012. Ever since i have moved to ellis gardens, i have become involved in the community such as volunteering in the boys and girls club. Volunteers is a positive and happy experience in my life. I love ellis gardens. It feels like an extension of the park now that the renovation is complete. It is now time to enjoy ellis gardens, have respect for one another and improve our community. On behalf of the residents we are very appreciative for the renovations and the support. Thank you very much. [applause. ] thank you. Please welcome supervisor matt haney. [applause. ] thank you, don, mayor breed. I want to give a special recognition to louise. He is not just the red of the Tenant Council here, he is one of the greatest Community Leaders in the tenderloin. He shows up in the neighborhood. You make this such a wonderful place to live. Please give him a round of applause again. I have been friends with who louise for a few years. Last year he invited me to visit the believe. To visit the building. It looks so beautiful. This area back here, the units. I got to visit on the tenth floor. This building is gorgeous. This is what people in this community deserve. This is what people in the tenderloin need in terms of open space, green space, finally living up to the name of this building, ellis gardens. This is a beautiful building for a neighborhood that is truly experiencing a renaissance of Affordable Housing, renovation for a community on the move in a positive way. I had a couple friends who visited the city recently. They are worried about the tenderloin. I said i was Walking Around and saw gentrification. I said what are you talking about . He said i walked around taylor and eddy and saw the condos popping up. I am worried we are building condos and not Affordable Housing. I said those are Affordable Housing buildings. Yes, they are beautiful. Yes, they represent what people in this Community Need andy serve. People are going to walk by this and say, wow, i wish i could live there. That is what we want for everyone living in the city and the residents. Thank you for allowing us to celebrate. Thank you for going through this process. I am sure there was a level of disruption. Thank you to bank of america and all of the project managers. I live one block from here right on hyde and ellis. This is my neighborhood. I walk by here every day and i am so happy for the residents and this entire community that this building has been expanded in the way that it has. Thank you. applause . Thank you so much, matt. Please welcome the executive director of glide Community Housing. applause . Good morning everybody. It is my pleasure to be here today. Flied Community Housing is honored to be in partnership. Thank you, mayor london breed and supervisor haney. Welcome everyone. We are so proud of the building we are being presented to you today the new ellis gardens. This project has been a labor of love. I would like to just pause and highlight the Development Team for a minute. Thank you so much for your level of excellence devoted to this project. Ellis garden reflects a strong commitment of collaboration and the team went above and beyond to make this a beautiful project. As you tour the building you will see their efforts truly exceed the baseline for the project. The structure here is sound and we are providing units of quality housing for years to come. As a service provider, glide Community Housing believes communities like ellis gardens are built on the strengths and talents of the members in the community. We are here to provide Supportive Services through effective case management. The goal is housing stability for the entire population of not only this building but other believes in the community. Our service Team Develops programming offering an array of multidimensional services and opportunities to travel new pathways to health, autonomy and growth. We believe that housing is the essential first step in supporting individuals to reduce barriers and thus breaking the cycles of chronic homelessness. In closing, i want to thank a few people in the room today. I really want to thank our staff. Glide Community Housing Supportive Services staff has gone the extra mile. It was our first time delivering services in an active construction site. Not only did you take care of your yells, you continued to deliver Quality Services and make sure the folks here were taken care of. Bank of america we thank you. We were able to deliver welcome home kits to every individual that received a new apartment got a kit full of basic household needs, dish us, towels, bathroom supplies to help them settle into the community. Gabe, thank you. Your leadership on the Development Team is exceptional. You went the extra mile. We thank you for your leadership. D and H Construction exceptional work. San francisco arts commission. We applied for the Community Challenge grant and were ag ablo partner. There is a beautiful mural on the wall. We are proud of the mural. Our partners with hsh, thank you. You allow us to work through Supportive Services. This Community Means a lot to us. There is a tremendous amount of gratitude being a lot of thank u. S. From the residents coming to Services Every day. Very appreciative of what we have done as a team. Thank you. We appreciate you. applause . Bank of america played a crucial role not only at ellis gardens but across the entire portfolio of rental assistance demonstration properties. Please welcome our long time friend heidi. Good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for the warm welcome. Thank you mathank you, mayor br. For those who may not know, bank of america was founded here in San Francisco in 1904 as the bank of italy by the son of italian immigrants who wanted to serve immigrants, women, those who were just the common person, and not necessarily the financial elite. Fast forward over 100 years and bank of america represents over 4,000 teammates, clients, Community Partners in San Francisco and if it is iconic moments like financing the bay bridge or restoring the Ferry Building or providing almost 100 residents in the ellis gardens with a wonderful new Living Condition and the wellbeing that comes with a place that is truly a home, we are so proud to be part of it. How important San Francisco is to bank of america. It is fitting out of 4. 8 billion. I am a banker. I will talk about money. Invested in the Community Development across the country over 2. 2 billion is here in San Francisco. We are tremendously proud to be included today in the celebration. Congratulations to the entire resident bays, Community Partners and friends. Thank you all so much for including us. applause . Finally, gabriel, it is your turn. Thank you, don andthal you all for come thank you all for coming. My heart is filled with so much gratitude today. I recognize that i am the last speaker right before lunch. I will keep it quick. First, i want to thank the tenants especially for putting up witH Construction and relocation. Today is an open house of sorts. It is not the first open house. When we completed the first floor of the top floor we finished the first unit and held the apartment open for the tenants to come and take a look. Everything was done. We had it staged modestly with flowers. People came out on to check it out. I will never forget one tenant walked in to the apartment and said is this what you are doing to my home . The tenant reactions were great. I wish we had hgtv there to capture it. Those are a real reason why many of us are in this business and do the work we do. I will skip over the list of hundreds of people i want to thank. I would like to thank the dozens of people who will look after this building here on out and look after the health of the people in it. I am very proud what we accomplished together to be here today. We did so under budget, mind you. I am proud tha that we will accomplish all of this in the future. Thank you very much for coming. Thank you. I want to just offer a few reflections. One is that i hope you will hear from all of us just the expression of gratitude. We realize we are in a privileged position to do the work to serve others. That is what a lot of us are very motivated by while in this room. Seven years ago mayor lee and ed had a vision p. 29 properties. 2 billion and where was that going to come from . How was it going to happen . A new program that none of us knew or understood very well. I understand the housing director at the time telling me five singlespaced pages of exceptions to the rules. Like this is what it took. That speaks nothing of all of the people and the institutions who are part of it. I hope you will takethe time to not just read but to grasp what is involved with every one of the people. Most of you here and everyone on the list made a real contribution. I hope you will feel that you own this, if you will, because we were in this role at the center of the work but it is other people doing the work. I dont know what it means to own ellis gardens. This is a community asset. This is Affordable Housing forever to serve people with low incomes forever. There will be a whole generation of people here 40 or 50 years from now celebrating the next rededication. It is a profound moment that i hope we can all appreciate how important not just the rededication but renewal. Grateful to be a part of it. Thank you all for coming. [applause. ] five, four, three, two, one. [cheers. ] the Bicycle Coalition was giving away 33 bicycles so i applied. I was happy to receive one of them. The Community Bike build program is the San Francisco coalitions way of spreading the joy of biking and freedom of biking to residents who may not have access to affordable transportation. The city has an ordinance that we worked with them on back in 2014 that requires city agency goes to give organizations like the San Francisco bicycle organization a chance to take bicycles abandoned and put them to good use or find new homes for them. The partnerships with organizations generally with organizations that are working with low income individuals or families or people who are transportation dependent. We ask them to identify individuals who would greatly benefit from a bicycle. We make a list of people and their heights to match them to a bicycle that would suit their lifestyle and age and height. Bicycle i received has impacted my life so greatly. It is not only a form of recreation. It is also a means of getting connected with the community through bike rides and it is also just a feeling of freedom. I really appreciate it. I am very thankful. We teach a class. They have to attend a one hour class. Things like how to change lanes, how to make a left turn, right turn, how to ride around cars. After that class, then we would give everyone a test chance chance to test ride. We are giving them as a way to get around the city. Just the joy of like seeing people test drive the bicycles in the small area, there is no real word. I guess enjoyable is a word i could use. That doesnt describe the kind of warm feelings you feel in your heart giving someone that sense of freedom and maybe they havent ridden a bike in years. These folks are older than the normal crowd of people we give bicycles away to. Take my picture on my bike. That was a great experience. There were smiles all around. The recipients, myself, supervisor, everyone was happy to be a part of this joyous occasion. At the end we normally do a group ride to see people ride off with these huge smiles on their faces is a great experience. If someone is interested in volunteering, we have a special section on the website sf bike. Org volunteer you can sign up for both events. We have given away 855 bicycles, 376 last year. We are growing each and every year. I hope to top that 376 this year. We frequently do events in bayview. The spaces are for people to come and work on their own bikes or learn skills and give them access to something that they may not have had access to. For me this is a fun way to get outside and be active. Most of the time the kids will be in the house. This is a fun way to do something. You get fresh air and you dont just stay in the house all day. Iit is a good way to exercise. The Bicycle Coalition has a Bicycle Program for every community in San Francisco. It is connecting the young, older community. It is a wonderful outlet for the community to come together to have some good clean fun. It has opened to many doors to the young people that will usually might not have a bicycle. I have seen them and they are thankful and i am thankful for this program. This is one place you can always count on to give you what you had before and remind you of what your San Francisco history used to be. We hear that all the time, people bring their kids here and their grandparents brought them here and down the line. Even though people move away, whenever they come back to the city, they make it here. And they tell us that. Youre going to get something made fresh, made by hand and made with quality products and something thats very, very good. The legacy bars and restaurants was something that was begun by San Francisco simply to recognize and draw attention to the establishments. It really provides for San Franciscos unique character. And that morphed into a request that we work with the city to develop a legacy business registration. Im Michael Cirocco and the owner of an area bakery. The bakery started in 191. My grandfather came over from italy and opened it up then. It is a small operation. Its not big. So everything is kind of quality that way. So i see every piece and cut every piece that comes in and out of that oven. Im leslie ciroccomitchell, a fourth generation baker here with my family. So we get up pretty early in the morning. I usually start baking around 5 00. And then you just start doing rounds of dough. Loaves. My mom and sister basically handle the front and then i have my nephew james helps and then my two daughters and my wife come in and we actually do the baking. After that, my mom and my sister stay and sell the product, retail it. You know, i dont really think about it. But then when i sometimes when i go places and i look and see places put up, oh this is our 50th anniversary and everything and weve been over 100 and that is when it kind of hits me. You know, that geez, weve been here a long time. [applause] a lot of people might ask why our legacy business is important. We all have our own stories to tell about our ancestry. Our lineage and ill use one example of tommys joint. Tommys joint is a place that my husband went to as a child and hes a fourth generation san franciscan. Its a place we can still go to today with our children or grandchildren and share the stories of what was San Francisco like back in the 1950s. Im the general manager at tommys joint. People mostly recognize tommys joint for its murals on the outside of the building. Very bright blue. You drive down and see what it is. They know the building. Tommys is a San Francisco hoffa, which is a germanstyle presenting food. We have five different carved meats and we carve it by hand at the station. You prefer it to be carved whether you like your brisket fatty or want it lean. You want your pastrami to be very lean. You can say i want that piece of corn beef and want it cut, you know, very thick and i want it with some sauerkraut. Tell the guys how you want to prepare it and they will do it right in front of you. San franciscos a place thats changing restaurants, except for tommys joint. Tommys joint has been the same since it opened and that is important. San francisco in general that we dont lose a grip of what San Franciscos came from. Tommys is a place that youll always recognize whenever you lock in the door. Youll see the same staff, the same bartender and have the same meal and that is great. Thats important. The service that San Francisco heritage offers to the legacy businesses is to help them with that application process, to make sure that they really recognize about them what it is that makes them so special here in San Francisco. So well help them with that application process if, in fact, the board of supervisors does recognize them as a legacy business, then that does entitle them to certain financial benefits from the city of San Francisco. But i say really, more importantly, it really brings them public recognition that this is a business in San Francisco that has history and that is unique to San Francisco. It started in june of 1953. And we make everything from scratch. Everything. We started a you we started a off with 12 flavors and mango fruits from the philippines and then started trying them one by one and the family had a whole new clientele. The business really boomed after that. I think that the flavors we make reflect the diversity of San Francisco. We were really surprised about the legacy project but we were thrilled to be a part of it. Businesses come and go in the city. Pretty tough for businesss to stay here because it is so expensive and theres so much competition. So for us who have been here all these years and still be popular and to be recognized by the city has been really a huge honor. We got a phone call from a woman who was 91 and she wanted to know if the mitchells still owned it and she was so happy that we were still involved, still the owners. She was our customer in 1953. And she still comes in. But she was just making sure that we were still around and it just makes us feel, you know, very proud that were carrying on our fathers legacy. And that we mean so much to so many people. It provides a perspective. And i think if you only looked at it in the here and now, youre missing the context. For me, legacy businesses, legacy bars and restaurants are really about setting the context for how we come to be where we are today. I just think its part of San Francisco. People like to see familiar stuff. At least i know i do. In the 1950s, you could see a picture of tommys joint and looks exactly the same. We havent change add thing. I remember one lady saying, you know, ive been eating this ice cream since before i was born. And i thought, wow we have, too. Adjourned. Shop dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shop dine in the 49 with within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local Services Within the neighborhood we help San Francisco remain unique successful and vibrant so where will you shop dine in the 49 my name is jim woods im the founder of Woods Beer Company and the proprietor of woods copy k open 2 henry adams what makes us unique is that were reintegrated brooeg the beer and serving that cross the table people are sitting next to the xurpz drinking alongside were having a lot of ingredient that get theres a lot to do the district of retail shop having that really close connection with the consumer allows us to do exciting things we decided to come to Treasure Island because we saw it as an amazing opportunity cant be beat the views and real estate that great county starting to develop on Treasure Island like minded Business Owners with last week products and want to get on the ground floor a nobrainer for us when you you, you buying local goods made locally our supporting Small Business those are not created an, an sprinkle scale with all the machines and one person procreating them people are making them by hand as a result more interesting and cant get that of minor or anywhere else and San Francisco a hot bed for local manufacturing in support that is what keeps your city vibrant well make a compelling place to live and visit i think that local business is the lifeblood of San Francisco and a vibrant good morning and welcome to the transportation authoritys meeting for today, election day, tuesday, november 5th, 2019. Our clerk is mr. Alberto kinta nix a. Role call. Pai role call
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