Multifamily units and construction. Hes transformed am cal into one of industrys leading developers, but developing 800 million residential and mixed use productions for california. Hes part of an organization dedicated to advancing affording housing. Weve been doing Affordable Housing since 1995 and been developing real estate in california since 1988. Weve developed in 38 cities, but what makes this really special is this is our first project in San Francisco. My hearts always been here, but theres never had the opportunity to do it and so for that i want to thank Craig Adelman who helped us acquire the site. [applause] and i want to thank obviously mayor lee and the city of San Francisco and ocii, other community developers, bank of america whom we are partnered with on multiple transactions throughout the state and of course leonard bourbon who without we would not be here. We are looking forward to hopefully doing more of this. As we all knoll theres a lot of need, very critical n
I dont want to 0 speak for Nicole Schneider but the april presentation that was clear especially two slides that were right from the top even before you talked about educational engineering and enforcement that is really important with what you said and be explicit or more didnt you know it is really important to speak that. I agree were utilizations to seeing the slides it is good to keep pitting it in there each time so i appreciate that feedback. Actually, i was going to ask as well about a point that Nicole Schneider brought up the 26 miles versus supervisor kim to a minimum of streets. I want to. Clarify that point. Absolutely and again, this is an example of the snapshot were going to 26 miles understanding i think tom mentioned before certain roads have a resolve it didnt need 26 miles of concrete but 26 miles of treatment so, etc. It depends on the need for that treatment so i want to be clear up front it is a treatment that gets us to the corridors i appreciate the pressure fr
Those things are done. So i want, again, thank all the agencies. Im excited for this project to happen. We break open this ground. I am in great anticipation. Im not sure i can wait until 2016 for these homes to open. Meanwhile, well probably be opening up Construction Projects to advance and accelerate. Tomorrow youll hear more about howard doing it across the city to build more Affordable Housing. This is the theme. My administration is the affordability agenda. Im going to be talking about it until everybody is sick and tired because you were sick and tired of me talking about jobs, job, jobs. Well, guess what, we got 7,000 kids jobs as a result. We got 4. 3 unemployment. I want the benefits of that economic strength to reach everybody in the city everyone including the bay view. This is what we get to do with additional revenues build more housing, gets more kids, more people employed, allow them to experience the wonder of earning their way forward. And then we can work in collabo
Nicole schneider but the april presentation that was clear especially two slides that were right from the top even before you talked about educational engineering and enforcement that is really important with what you said and be explicit or more didnt you know it is really important to speak that. I agree were utilizations to seeing the slides it is good to keep pitting it in there each time so i appreciate that feedback. Actually, i was going to ask as well about a point that Nicole Schneider brought up the 26 miles versus supervisor kim to a minimum of streets. I want to. Clarify that point. Absolutely and again, this is an example of the snapshot were going to 26 miles understanding i think tom mentioned before certain roads have a resolve it didnt need 26 miles of concrete but 26 miles of treatment so, etc. It depends on the need for that treatment so i want to be clear up front it is a treatment that gets us to the corridors i appreciate the pressure from the advocate group obvio
We broke ground in december of last year. We broke ground the day after sandy hook connecticut and had a moment of silence here. Its really great to see the silence that we experienced then and weve experienced over the years in this playground is now filled with these voices. 321, okay. [ applause ] the park was kind of bleak. It was scary and over grown. We started to help maclaren park when we found there wasnt any money in the bond for this park maclaren. We spent time for funding. It was expensive to raise money for this and there were a lot of delays. A lot of it was just the mural, the sprinklers and we didnt have any grass. It was that bad. We worked on sprinkler heads and grass and we fixed everything. We worked hard collecting everything. We had about 400 group members. Every a little bit helped and now the park is busy all week. There is people with kids using the park and using strollers and now its safer by utilizing it. Maclaren park being the largest second park one of t