Whistle along with me, yall. [whistling] yeah [whistling] thank you. applause [cheering and applauding] other than that, how about a San Francisco welcome . [cheering and applauding] now, a few words about otis redding and that absolutely gorgeous song. Can you think of a better song for this great wharf . As you probably know, otis redding was in San Francisco to perform at the fillmore in the summer of 1967 and he found himself for a week on a sauselito house boat. On the bay came the inspiration for this incredible song. A couple months later he recorded the song and tragically passed 2008 way in a plane crash in 1967. This song became the last recorded song by otis redding. It is an incredible song, it is so befitting and it is something we thought would inspire everyone who comes to this wharf, not just today, but ongoing. And the otis redding family has graciously allowed us to use some of his famous lyrics here at the wharf. They will be permanently engraved at one of the marker
Space. It takes a village for us to build a park and i want to very much add the thanks to the so many city staff that came together who monique and mayor lee have already mentioned, but i want to thank in particular the port for your leadership over the many years, all the departments, mayor lee. I also want to thank an agency that i had the pleasure of serving on that many members of the public dont know much about, the bcdc, the bacon Certification Development commission. applause thank you, bcdc. So, those of you who dont know, bcdc is the commission that is responsible for protecting the bay, protecting the access of the public to the bay, protecting the fact that our bay had for many decades until bcdc came along, been encroached by developments that not everyone thought was appropriate. And i think its so special that we are focused today on making sure that this very spot and spots around the entire bay are protected. One of the interesting design aspects of what we stand on ri
History of our city and particularly the hard history of our waterfront labor struggles. And that International Long shore and work house union, yes, very important part of our citys history. applause are reflected in these wonderful artistic and historic panels. And that will just give us even much more of a deeper sense of appreciation for what our city does with this. Then this opens up a viewpoint that i know you know that i personally share because its not just the history. Were also going to be opening up this area for even more people as we establish and get going on piers 3032 and transform what has historically been dying piers into the hopeful new entertainment and waterfront arena. I know in less than five years, an additional 13 acres of open space will had. More of that will be open more and more to the public. I want to see see gail hunter, viethv of the warriors here. I want to thank you for your commitment to working with the city to try to make this happen. ~ Vice Pres
The port, its commission and the staff, because this is in fact 150 years of celebration of our port. And what a way to celebrate with all these wonderful things that are happening here. Its taken 15 years for this project to get done, 15 years. Thats a 10th of the history of the port of San Francisco. And theres a lot of people to thank and moniques already thanked them, but its worth repeating. I think the big Conservation Development commission, the Port Commission, our port staff, public works, all our departments behind me, rec and park, our federal partners have certainly been extremely important. Thank you to everyone for getting to this point. And thank you for the contractors as well, because this has been one of the most visible projects where people along the waterfront have traversed this project for quite sometime and did not experience any Public Safety challenges along the way. So, i want to thank them for that high level of safety. 840 feet alongside our embarcadaro pro
Headed for the frisco bay i have nothing to live for and look like nothings gonna come my way so im just gonna sit on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away oohee sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time ahah look like nothings gonna change everything still remains the same i cant do what people tell me to do so i guess ill remain the same sitting here and this loneliness wont leave me alone 2000 miles i roamed just to make this dock my home im just gonna sit on the dock of the bay watching the tide roll away oohee sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time. Ah whistle along with me, yall. [whistling] yeah [whistling] thank you. applause [cheering and applauding] other than that, how about a San Francisco welcome . [cheering and applauding] now, a few words about otis redding and that absolutely gorgeous song. Can you think of a better song for this great wharf . As you probably know, otis redding was in San Francisco to perform at the fillmore in the summer of 1967 and he