Philanthropic community when i joined talking about community diversity, Kaiser Permanente also participated here. They are active and more than just talking about diversity. They are active in putting resources together to join this and fund this 5 million refresh of the plaza. I want to thank walter, the architect. Of course hes famous in his own right. I have known that since my days at dpw but hes taken a refresh on this whole sight and gotting together with partners along with preservation architects and to work with our ocii or our refresh substitute for eliminated redevelopment and have an office of Community Investment and infrastructure to work on this sight and partner with others and take an investment and Historic Preservation experts can appreciate we want to do this right and sensitively and with our neighborhood leaders. There are many people that have come together for the bayview opera house. This is a wonderful announcement today because i think we are doing it in the
Architect. Of course hes famous in his own right. I have known that since my days at dpw but hes taken a refresh on this whole sight and gotting together with partners along with preservation architects and to work with our ocii or our refresh substitute for eliminated redevelopment and have an office of Community Investment and infrastructure to work on this sight and partner with others and take an investment and Historic Preservation experts can appreciate we want to do this right and sensitively and with our neighborhood leaders. There are many people that have come together for the bayview opera house. This is a wonderful announcement today because i think we are doing it in the right way. We are not doing it to the neighborhood. We are doing it with neighborhood and building our neighborhoods spirit up, local businesses, youth, arts, leaders as well. Let me Say Something about the arts committee. I have read many articles that of course suggest a fear among all the arts programs
In new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasnt recovered the building stock. Its not a good situation. I think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. How do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95 of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. We dont lose our work force. We dont lose the people that make San Francisco so special. We keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because its so interdependent. So that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and good morning and welcome ining to bayview and the Ruth Williams memorial opera house. My name is tom decaneey and from the Arts Co
And pricing out our community programs, this is something we want to do that suggest going in a different direction and even along Market Street we have to support our local programs that have been there just like on third street to create thing and establish themselves and not get priced out. We need to do more of this in our neighborhood and identify the arts programs that are our sensitive and economic edge. This is why we promoted programs like cast to try to find ways to control the land values and land use and to use the citys economic success to get that land control. The ocii or whatever agencies that we have so that we can control land cost and invite the artist and Artistic Community to join us cloelg these land cost. We dont do that. If i dont get more of these land cost in control, then we are subject to the Natural Forces going on. Our success will eat away at our local arts programs. We cant have that happen. I want to say to the whole Arts Commission, our helping hand, c
Withstand both good and back economic times. This is the story that i think as mayor i want to be not only head of, but be known for. So, again, i thank our Arts Commission, i thank all the partnerships that were helping to develop this area. I think all of the partners that are coming together to refresh and redesign and help with this sensitive building but one that we value and it will be at the heart of all the different businesses that were attracting along the street corridor. This is a strong neighborhood. We are reinvesting in it. People feel that its changing. It not all about midmarket. Its about third street, about every major corridor in our city getting the right attention through the programs that we are creating. I want to thank all the city departments working with us. I just named a few, but there are many that are working with our strong corridors and will be part of our economic success and not be left alone for others to say that we want to go in a different directi