Base guitarist. My first show was at the shop many years ago. Speaking about the arts in the 2000 i cofounded a space here in San Francisco in south of market. I remember having a Performance Arts space, we moved three times in 6 years and finding spaces to support them was in incredibly challenging during that time. We were eventually able to share spaces through other Arts Organizations, but i do remember how important permanent physical space was. Thats why its so exciting to be here 13 years later to celebrate the acquisition of two very important buildings here in the tenderloin and midmarket for two organizations that have held strong in the midmarket area for a long time and thats leading and luggage store gallery, i want to recognize mr. Smith and jessica from counter paul. Its so fun to be able to kind of switch roles as our Arts Community grows. I remember going to the intersection of the arts and now they are here a block away at 5 m and dr. Cohen is now the director of Yerb
To advocates for Public Safety and all of you that make this a viable and dynamic and Exciting Community and diverse. Thats the challenge here. We are trying to revitalize this area and still remain diversity. Its not going to happen easy. There is going to be a lot of challenges. But whats exciting is that everyone here from the Mayors Office is committed to making that the reality here on market street. Thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you very much, supervisor. And to talk about the incredible entity that has been created to help us celebrate today is the president of cast and also a board member of the foundation. That is eric roaden back. [ applause ] hi. I would like to thank mayor ed lee and supervisor jane kim. Its incredible to be standing here with them. Thank you. We appreciate the commitment the city has shown forecast and for the arts community. I have lived in the tenderloin for 10 years and this is a warm spot in my neighborhood. This used to be a cool neighborhoo
They dont have to continuously rely on us and this was in someway that we heard over again what they needed mostly to be successful was affordable space. This is a step in the multiyear effort. We are proud to announce these two projects. With your help we can move this further. We need foundation and individual investors to help us expand this work. We know that we can expand our role. We honor the reliability and we invite you to join us. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you very much, eric. Now to the beneficiaries of this incredible outcome. First we stand in front of the luggage store today so i want to welcome darryl smith. Thank you, mayor lee and supervisor kim, the focus that you are bringing to this project. I want to thank all of you for being here. Looking out at you i see the diversity that is reflective of what midmarket and tenderloin encompasses. I wanted to bring your attention to this structure that local artist dustin made. Its kind of a scrapie recycled construction of
For San Francisco, they are part of the culture, they are part of the International Flavor of San Francisco. We are going to continue doing everything we can to support their existence, their survival and their success. When we drafted the Market Street economic strategy, we had arts right there focused. Now weve got some answers, now weve got some models to exhibit out there. So these first two successful Building Owner ships are just the beginning. When the arts programs established themselves as part owner of these wonderful buildings we have here, they are going to also need the continued support of our city, of our residents, of the tech workers up and down and Small Businesses up and down Market Street to not only continue with performances but to support them. Arts is about Community Action and support. I want to thank the arts, the Arts Commission for being great partners with this and they are also the effort. And i want to thank karen as well. Shes been a strong leader to mak
Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Its a Beautiful Day in San Francisco. My name is Joaquin Torres the director of economic and Work Force Development and the mayors investing Neighborhood Initiative which is an office coordinates through out our neighborhood commercial services that our private partners bring to bear. It also includes something we realize in the city which is the Central Market economic strategy. One of those objectives is ensuring that Central Market is a center here in our city. All of us here are here today to celebrate a very important milestone of building up creativity in our city. To kick us off to talk about this achievement is our mayor, ed lee. Thank you, joaquin. He works very hard and others that scour these blocks all the time working with all the residents and artist and Small Businesses have been wonderful. As many of you know i have worked very hard on the revitalization of Market Street. We have shown some success, but weve always said