Stand here and demonstrate to sfro San Francisco and say to the country our progress. This project is critically important to the future of transportation therefore the future of our economy and city and making great progress weve completed the tuning 255 Million Contract the project got done ahead of schedule and created jobs behind us the mucus station which will connect to the muscone Conference Center that will be expanding but most critically making the corrections this central subway for the light rail the first phase in completed in 2007 that resorted San Francisco after a 50 year hiatus the central subway will be 50 blocks south of here connecting southeast of the city to the most illegally populated neighborhoods in the United States the day the subway opens for obispo that will be a busy day with the right planning and the right leadership what we can make investments that help our cities and our economy but in the meantime, were going to put people to work that will inspire
Transportation benefits in the longterm were pleased to be able to demonstrate to the country what we can do in investing in our infrastructure and connecting communities. So i want to thank all the folks that have joined us i have the great honor to bring you are forward a woman who has been a force in creating things in San Francisco the central subway is subject to by america laws that all resourcing comes from the United States we have our own versus through sf made that is devoted to supporting and protecting local murrays and local production were lucky to have this organization this is lead by someone that is building and breathing and figuring out how to get more production into our economy and get more people working im happy to welcome up our director of sf made clapping. good morning. So i want to talk about San Francisco as a National Model for a maker city i thought about standing here talking about manufacturing and building is really all Kindred Spirit claiming the poten
A b process systems in stratford hired 50 more people over the past year and greenheck in schofield added 209 jobs since 2011. These are just the employers i visited in the past few days. Throughout the past year, we helped amazon. Com expand and create up to 1,250 jobs here in wisconsin. Emco chemical distributors moved up from illinois with about 187 jobs. Hanna cylinders announced the same thing and brought 105 jobs to our state. All three of these companies moved into kenosha county. [ applause ] these are just a small sample of the many good news stories showing wisconsin is going back to work. [ applause ] this is a stark contrast to the negative job outlook of the past. During my predecessors last term, wisconsin lost more than 133,000 jobs and lost more than 27,000 businesses. In 2009, the Unemployment Rate peaked at 9. 2 . During that same year, wisconsins ranking in chief executive magazines best and worst states for business was 43rd. In 2009, a survey of employers by the ch
American recovery act to be a dumb u jump start for us in San Francisco we needed it at the height felt Great Recession and it came at the right time with the initial investments now over a billion dollars in the project you see what has come about this project has been one of the Critical Foundation but why today a few years later well boast about a 4. 5 employment rate i putting americans to work is so important in project is a couple of months ago director reiskin and i looked at the tunnel borrowing machines helping them get out of the ground a huge milestone its burn a safe project for the men and women they know about safety what their tunneling very deep underground and marcus making sure this station with union square and the scare station and along with the chinatown station were doing well, that the conversation has literally changed they want this done all the way to Fishermans Wharf thats why leader pelosi is here today, we need to brag about the Success Stories those kinds
Also with those young kids michael i think we can get him a my own card rightofway. Im delighted i know leader pelosi is absolutely right and chosen one of the most exemplar projects certainly our city has seen here today with the San Francisco mta xhishsz, the Planning Commission folks and our sf leader katie is here as well its a milestone after milestone when in the backdrop the central subway project is so important i remember leader pelosi when we began this conversation in the early years really to trying to figure out how we could access those american recovery act to be a dumb u jump start for us in San Francisco we needed it at the height felt Great Recession and it came at the right time with the initial investments now over a billion dollars in the project you see what has come about this project has been one of the Critical Foundation but why today a few years later well boast about a 4. 5 employment rate i putting americans to work is so important in project is a couple of