Everyone. And welcome to San Franciscos 19th annual api heritage Month Celebration. My name is grace hari kari, one of the co chairs of this years celebration, along with my mother, brother from another mother, um other culture alferez. Yes. Give him ahead. We want to also acknowledge our third corps co chair thomas lee, who unfortunately cannot be here with us this evening. Then how about another round of applause for the halal hula dance troupe for opening tonights program and celebration with the wahine . A. Oh no a and danny hula, so one more time. So they are based in South San Francisco under Master Teacher kawika, the groups primary focuses on cultural traditions associated with the hawaiian islands. Good evening. My name is al perez. I am so excited about this years celebration. Because in my mind , i kept thinking that its much about everything asian everywhere all at once, just like the movie. Well with the three amazing organizations that were honoring tonight, doesnt it fee
Milestone. We supported 1200 Small Businesses in San Francisco while deploying 45 million in direct Financial Support and revenue for businesses. [applause] in all 11 districts, city wide. And this is our team has been able to accomplish this in just four short years so we also celebrated our four year anniversary. We launched vacant vibrant a year ago and we have been inspired by the new energy and momentum it brought downtown. The Economic Health of downtown and San Francisco as a quhole and all our neighborhoods are deeply interconnected and vacant to vibrant we are building a down of diverse and inclusive neighborhood and that will mean housing, that means a university, that will mean entertainment zones, that means arts and culture and Everything Else laid out in the mayors road map to downtown for San Francisco future. But the key ingredient to building the new downtown is going to be Small Business. Just like they are the key ingredient to the unique identity to all neighborhood
A major milestone. We supported 1200 Small Businesses in San Francisco while deploying 45 million in direct Financial Support and revenue for businesses. [applause] in all 11 districts, city wide. And this is our team has been able to accomplish this in just four short years so we also celebrated our four year anniversary. We launched vacant vibrant a year ago and we have been inspired by the new energy and momentum it brought downtown. The Economic Health of downtown and San Francisco as a quhole and all our neighborhoods are deeply interconnected and vacant to vibrant we are building a down of diverse and inclusive neighborhood and that will mean housing, that means a university, that will mean entertainment zones, that means arts and culture and Everything Else laid out in the mayors road map to downtown for San Francisco future. But the key ingredient to building the new downtown is going to be Small Business. Just like they are the key ingredient to the unique identity to all neig
A major milestone. We supported 1200 Small Businesses in San Francisco while deploying 45 million in direct Financial Support and revenue for businesses. [applause] in all 11 districts, city wide. And this is our team has been able to accomplish this in just four short years so we also celebrated our four year anniversary. We launched vacant vibrant a year ago and we have been inspired by the new energy and momentum it brought downtown. The Economic Health of downtown and San Francisco as a quhole and all our neighborhoods are deeply interconnected and vacant to vibrant we are building a down of diverse and inclusive neighborhood and that will mean housing, that means a university, that will mean entertainment zones, that means arts and culture and Everything Else laid out in the mayors road map to downtown for San Francisco future. But the key ingredient to building the new downtown is going to be Small Business. Just like they are the key ingredient to the unique identity to all neig
Moments but proud to share one for sf new deal. Last week, sf new deal reached a major milestone. We supported 1200 Small Businesses in San Francisco while deploying 45 million in direct Financial Support and revenue for businesses. [applause] in all 11 districts, city wide. And this is our team has been able to accomplish this in just four short years so we also celebrated our four year anniversary. We launched vacant vibrant a year ago and we have been inspired by the new energy and momentum it brought downtown. The Economic Health of downtown and San Francisco as a quhole and all our neighborhoods are deeply interconnected and vacant to vibrant we are building a down of diverse and inclusive neighborhood and that will mean housing, that means a university, that will mean entertainment zones, that means arts and culture and Everything Else laid out in the mayors road map to downtown for San Francisco future. But the key ingredient to building the new downtown is going to be Small Bus