Stay updated with breaking news from Shephard mullen. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
things. and so instead of it being design professionals and people in the real estate industry sort of imposing on the world what they think the world wants, it is sort of coming the other direction. if that is, in fact, a new trend, i was not the only person who left that room sort of saying, gee, i feel old, you know? in terms of this is a whole new way in which we re going to now be doing our business in the real estate industry? and i think today s speakers are going to focus on various parts of all of that. and i think that is a large part of what makes san francisco such an exciting environment now. so thank you everybody. [ applause ] thank you and thanks again to shephard mullen. so i m not going to take a lot of time with the mayor s introduction, because i want to give him all the time and i know he has a busy schedule, but we do appreciate that he has continued our tradition of every year having our mayor speak at this event and sharing the vision, his visi ....
assigned to that issue, that seems like a big concern. i would wonder how many times you have to bundle them before something happens? my recommendation as a partnership. i was a citizen and worked at that d.a. s office and was concerned about car break ins. on one side, they say there should be more arrests and the other side says there should be more prosecutions. when we sit and the room and say we don t the same offender is getting out, that is probably where there is a solution. there are other folks that i know that d.a. said being responsible to community concerns is a priority. there are some system things we have to work on but it starts with people like you insisting on it. i would recommend a process that is collaborative in nature. thank you for your report. what is your sense in terms of the quality of life on broadway? what is your sense as to how much of the problem can be attributable to the party bosses and how much is attributable to other issues ....
thanks everyone. my purpose is mostly to be here to thank all of you for coming, so we have this opportunity to kind of examine what is going on in our real estate environment, and in particular, to thank the san francisco business times for putting on this event. and i think for most of us in this room, we rely very heavily on the san francisco business times to keep track of what is going on in san francisco, and the greater bay area, in the real estate world. and it is the best source of that information for all of us. mary asked me if i would make a few observations about the general state of the real estate economy here in san francisco and as i do that, i always have to think about what to say that mary hasn t already said about it. and if you look at the real estate economy generally in our nation, and the fact that it is still soft. that we still need more jobs. that there is a recovery, but it s a slow recovery. you can t do that without thinking gee, will ....
innovation is at the forefront. let me mention a special area of innovation that s going on, what i call the silent giant in san francisco. you ll have in front of you this study. it is entitled from our council the world-leading center for health care and research that s produced and it will allow you to see how our medical industry is a 16.7 billion dollar industry for the city and county of san francisco. 16.7 billion dollars. it employs 100,000 people in our city, and because of that sleeping giant, i am going to be creating quarterly meetings with the medical council to make sure that i support their research, their scientific discoveries and help grow this industry. because, by god, in our lifetime, this medical industry, this research, their association with ucsf, are going to create the solutions for the world in cancer, in arthritis, in autism, in all the diseases that have plagued us for many, many years. we continue it look forward to ways to showcase all of ....
urban tech. the social media companies, the high-tech companies, the creative workforces, who now want to live and work in urban environments, interact with their environments instead of work in suburban campuses that are fairly sterile and isolated. and that phenomenon has been going on to some time, but what really brought home some of the changes to me was a talk i heard earlier this week by alexa arena talking about the 5m project at 6th and mission, the conversion of the chronicle building and plant surrounding areas. and she talked about the design process as being one of going out to constituencies, potential constituencies, focus groups, listening to people, trying to find out what they were looking for in collaborative, interactive work environments. and bringing the city into those work environments, and the connection and the need for amenities like cultural amenities and the arts and food and all of those kinds of things. and so instead of it being design p ....