Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Its a Beautiful Day in San Francisco. My name is Joaquin Torres the director of economic and Work Force Development and the mayors investing Neighborhood Initiative which is an office coordinates through out our neighborhood commercial services that our private partners bring to bear. It also includes something we realize in the city which is the Central Market economic strategy. One of those objectives is ensuring that Central Market is a center here in our city. All of us here are here today to celebrate a very important milestone of building up creativity in our city. To kick us off to talk about this achievement is our mayor, ed lee. Thank you, joaquin. He works very hard and others that scour these blocks all the time working with all the residents and artist and Small Businesses have been wonderful. As many of you know i have worked very hard on the revitalization of Market Street. We have shown some success, but weve always said
Percent. Today we are announcing one special effort thanks to the can an foundation, wonderful organization, and their collaboration with the Community Loan fund working with our offices and Community Base nonprofits, we have established something that has been in the works for a number of months, but its now established well and its called cast. That is Community Arts stabilization trust. Cast in short for theatre cast. Everybody gets that except for those like me who are new to this. I want to be part of that cast because they are taking a concept that i think you will see repeated in other sectors. That is, when you are a subject and victim to Property Ownership, you have to change that around. So for the arts, kenneth rain an and the Community Loan fund, we decided to let us try to turn that paradigm around and become Property Owners ourselves for the benefit of the Community Arts program. Thats the concept here under cast. Rather than just announce it, we are actually announcing t
Across the street, we had the highest vacancy commercial rate in the city. What we are seeing now at midmarket is that Everyone Wants to be here now. Of course what that means that Everyone Wants to be here, what does that mean for the Arts Community that has always been here. This is going to keep artist and the Artist Organization here. It was great to work with the California Community loan funds and the office of Economic Development to make this a reality. Over the past couple of year with hard work and procuring money and Property Owners we were able to procure these sites to ensure the arts remain here permanently. This is a huge effort. Its not just the elected officials that get to stay here. Its the main Market Community that holds this together. Whether its the collaborative that continues to advocates for Public Safety and all of you that make this a viable and dynamic and Exciting Community and diverse. Thats the challenge here. We are trying to revitalize this area and st
Francisco. My name is Joaquin Torres the director of economic and Work Force Development and the mayors investing Neighborhood Initiative which is an office coordinates through out our neighborhood commercial services that our private partners bring to bear. It also includes something we realize in the city which is the Central Market economic strategy. One of those objectives is ensuring that Central Market is a center here in our city. All of us here are here today to celebrate a very important milestone of building up creativity in our city. To kick us off to talk about this achievement is our mayor, ed lee. Thank you, joaquin. He works very hard and others that scour these blocks all the time working with all the residents and artist and Small Businesses have been wonderful. As many of you know i have worked very hard on the revitalization of Market Street. We have shown some success, but weve always said and i want to emphasize this, youve heard me say this before, the artist in t
Recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. You can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace, and shoot us, as we know very well, you will, but this time were not turning back. We know you are finished. Desperate, near the end. Hysterical in your flabbergastlyness. Amen. After the readings, the crowd headed to a reception upstairs by wandering through the other gallery rooms in the historic home. The third floor is not usually reserved for just parties, however. It is the stage for live performances. Under the guidance of musical curators, these three, meridian has maintained a strong commitment to new music, compositions that are innovative, experimental, and sometimes challenging. Sound art is an artistic and event that usually receives short shrift from most galleries because San Francisco is musicians have responded by showing strong support for the programming. Looking into meridians future, she says she wants to keep doing