I was going to get out of the way early i went to the game when we beat the lakers and we did that now 3 times in the last month and b. A. Give this and same thing high and i look forward to working with you will have you when they come and innovate with us on the basketball court. Im excited about all the companies i see here. I know that sf label means a lot when what is your u your looking at chocolates and wines or heat ceramics or mattresses a one hundred and 15 year company. I had a chance to visit with them and the testimony bucks two assessors or cut lose deny i am sorry all kinds of things. Were going to do more. I know weve increased funding for our local manufacturing through sf made and were going to a continue doing that. Our Business Accelerators have been helpful but at the same time weve got more to do. I i know there are some great new programs. I love the fact that youth made just started we got introduced were going to have a lot of youth and have interning to get in
clapping good morning. Im kate executive director of sf made and i want to welcome all you have you to our Second Annual state of local manufacturing breakfast thank you all for coming today. I think we have a exemplify agenda and the goal is to help all of you to understand the role that plays here in San Francisco and whether youre coming as a Real Estate Developer or as a policymaker a really leverage mates become a powerful asset in San Francisco. Before i turn the speaker over to mayor ed lee i want to start by thanking our sponsors our lead sponsor it pg e and our supporting sponsors are effort city. We have a list of tremendous supports across the room ill briefly read off all of you. The American Industrial center that has the highest number of manufacturers on the city were thrived to have them. Bold build patch stuffy and basis are first branch bank the Family Foundation good and strong maureen successors e. R. Associates and anyways adams and pacific Waterfront Partners and
And rebecca and rudy i didnt and all of you guys to invested in me and my generation i wouldnt be where im at today and use the same strategies to overcome things and be able to reach out to english community. We we were able to lied the biggest hepatitis best recollection projects. So thank you for your mentorship and a leadership all right. Keep it going for giving me verify a rock star indeed. Im personally one of her oldest groupies. Okay. You know, its amazing lets hear it for all our winners. All those today who were recognized. Ive had the honor myself im a produce of district 6 myself working in the south of market area ive had the honor to work with women who shaped the community. I want to recognize them those are strong woman. We can applaud for them yes. Raqeul works with john avalos and angelina. calling names man those are very strong strong women and im glad that we were able to recognize them. We have so many strong filipinos hero in the city. Im proud to bring up possi
Great idea. Now im going to welcome senator mark leno whos been a great advocate and has an Honorary Degree in acting. Inasfar mark leno clapping i still have no clue as to why i was given that Honorary Degree but it has a prominent shooting spot on the wall in my office. I think the only thing that matches mayor lees depreciation to revitality this project is we hear a lot about disruptiveors here, no San Francisco but this is about blowing up on old box and rebuilding it. The very foundation of this project is built is the core mission of ac t which is to expand the opportunities to experience the transitive potential of dramatic story telling and as we break ground today thats dramatic story telling in real time its all about tomorrow. And tomorrow our kids and students because this is going to be a bit an Educational Institution its not just about Performance Art this is going to bring opportunity for kids who wouldnt have it interest every study and every report we have clearly re
Thank you for coming thank you for coming and exercising is unveiling of our office. This is officially is third office we call it was 3. 0. We started this Company Almost 6 years ago now and yet it was born in San Francisco and it was born one block that way at a bar. It was where chris and i had our first conversation about the project entity human being. Today things are arbitrate different back then there was two of us now theres 1 hundred and 10 of us so we need a Bigger Office today. So why do we need all this space not only for the 2 hundred and 10 people but because we have now 4 million urges on the website and the projects and 16 million unique visits every month that come to get human being. Com website. Its going good for us to be here this is where get human being was created this is the city of innovation and this is where we find some of the best talent here and its an honor to be here and revive this Historic Building to a place we can call home. So with that ill id lik