clapping hello. clapping. good afternoon San Francisco. yelling n what a Beautiful Day a day for a celebration weve finished 12 years in inform we toward is two folks and now opting 6 hundred with our commitment and have the pleasure of this beautiful building because of you the employees in the for you part of the spirit is the technology is a start up and this event helps to catch this this is part of the culture we want to have going into the future. clapping. were in San Francisco because its as toxic place our business technician is a daily war for top talent and even though people want to be in a beautiful city coming out have to integration ive lived in Second Amendment and new york and miami and los angeles San Francisco is the place to be. Yeah. clapping . So his our great honor and pleasure we have the honorable mayor, mayor ed lee here to see a is a few words about the city of San Francisco as well and jerry congratulations and thank you very much how sufficient riverbed tea
To the schlage lock project site. The transportation study that was adapted in march of 2013 identified a connection to the bayer station as one of the priority. Weve learned throughout the Community Process that transportation improvements and access continue to be a priority for the members of the southeast. Now we have today will help expedite the construction of an interim pedestrian connection through the Development Site as the overall project is constructed that can save caltrain users more than one half a mile around the area and help. And no mystery that neighbors are clamoring for the need for more transportation environmentalist with where we were were dealing with demonstrateful in the distribute this includes a couple of things i want to highlight a few with schlage lock a grocery new public parks and open space and Affordable Housing, specifically addressing the restoration of the Historic Office building and payment of the payment impact fees and the infrastructure fees
Balboa park station district 11 where it comes off the freeway and the path to district 7 and ive been keeping abreast in terms of the alternatives and so forth im really looking forward to implementing those this study mainly because what im seeing in the last few years is worsen traffic conditions and theres more and more people also taking either muni or bart so you have the competition with the traffic and pedestrians which is just going to get worse and i know this is in implementing this study or new prongs will take many years im anxious we ged get going on this im supportive of this report thank you. Ive often joked how difficult it is to get around balboa park station this study can actually help me to change my motto to something thats helpful to transportation. With that, we can go to oh, supervisor mar yeah. I wanted to say supervisor avalos and supervisor yee that i didnt realize how sdauvenlgs dangerous it was until the supervisor tang and the mta staff took us to look at
The construction of the building now to be here open opening day for riverbed on of the United States street this wonderful sign were a city thats strong how about 4. 4 percent in unemployment weve been a part of the nation capital of the world San Francisco i want to thank you because right here theres going to be over 4 nine hundred jobs at the site thank you for a being a Great Community partner as well not only are you celebrating the success of our company youve joined me in making sure our youth of the future begin this summer with 7 thousand 7 thousand paid jobs thank you riverbed for obeying being a partner. And as part of this wonderful announcement i want to say thank you, again four showing you your Great Community and passion for this city by making sure our workforce is part of my workforce in helping people in this city succeed by nominating to our San Francisco food bank thats a wonderful contribution 68,000. 69 that is 6 hundred 80 cans of food and cash my i got the num
There was preparation, which i felt was key. And a lot of thought went into that. And i know that you talked about, you know, the impact that it had on the young people, but having seen you and the other adults in the studio, i dont know who got the most out of it, you guys or the kids . Really. And it comes through here, and even as you are speaking now. And i told the kids, and i use the phrase a lot the world is bigger than the block. Yeah. The most important piece of it, is their academic diplomas that she can get is their passport and i mean, obviously, for me, history and culture is just the basis of who i am and what i do. And so but for you to take them actually there, i mean, that is greater than anything that they read in a book and you read in a book. So we are going to make it happen again, and you know, he has already kicked himself and i am working on something bigger that i mentioned to you earlier to try to make this a. And i am working on it and i am working on it beca