philanthropic community when i joined talking about community diversity, kaiser permanente also participated here. they are active and more than just talking about diversity. they are active in putting resources together to join this and fund this $5 million refresh of the plaza. i want to thank walter, the architect. of course he s famous in his own right. i have known that since my days at dpw but he s taken a refresh on this whole sight and gotting together with partners along with preservation architects and to work with our ocii or our refresh substitute for eliminated redevelopment and have an office of community investment and infrastructure to work on this sight and partner with others and take an investment and historic preservation experts can appreciate we want to do this right and sensitively and with our neighborhood leaders. there are many people that have come together for the bayview opera house. this is a wonderful announcement today because i think we are do
and pricing out our community programs, this is something we want to do that suggest going in a different direction and even along market street we have to support our local programs that have been there just like on third street to create thing and establish themselves and not get priced out. we need to do more of this in our neighborhood and identify the arts programs that are our sensitive and economic edge. this is why we promoted programs like cast to try to find ways to control the land values and land use and to use the city s economic success to get that land control. the ocii or whatever agencies that we have so that we can control land cost and invite the artist and artistic community to join us cloelg these land cost. we don t do that. if i don t get more of these land cost in control, then we are subject to the natural forces going on. our success will eat away at our local arts programs. we can t have that happen. i want to say to the whole arts commission, our h
withstand both good and back economic times. this is the story that i think as mayor i want to be not only head of, but be known for. so, again, i thank our arts commission, i thank all the partnerships that were helping to develop this area. i think all of the partners that are coming together to refresh and redesign and help with this sensitive building but one that we value and it will be at the heart of all the different businesses that were attracting along the street corridor. this is a strong neighborhood. we are reinvesting in it. people feel that it s changing. it not all about mid-market. it s about third street, about every major corridor in our city getting the right attention through the programs that we are creating. i want to thank all the city departments working with us. i just named a few, but there are many that are working with our strong corridors and will be part of our economic success and not be left alone for others to say that we want to go in a diff
architect. of course he s famous in his own right. i have known that since my days at dpw but he s taken a refresh on this whole sight and gotting together with partners along with preservation architects and to work with our ocii or our refresh substitute for eliminated redevelopment and have an office of community investment and infrastructure to work on this sight and partner with others and take an investment and historic preservation experts can appreciate we want to do this right and sensitively and with our neighborhood leaders. there are many people that have come together for the bayview opera house. this is a wonderful announcement today because i think we are doing it in the right way. we are not doing it to the neighborhood. we are doing it with neighborhood and building our neighborhoods spirit up, local businesses, youth, arts, leaders as well. let me say something about the arts committee. i have read many articles that of course suggest a fear among all the ar
third thursday of every month. please come out and please come and support our businesses along the corridor and come out and share the rich experiences that we have here in the bayview. thank you so much. [ applause ] before we get to put a shovel in the ground i have a few more thank yous. i have to thank sf mta for their incredible partnership. we appreciate that partnership. as mentioned the department of public works mohammed, great partnership and we look forward to breaking ground together and want to thank captain sullivan and his staff for working here at the opera house and i big big round of applause for the arts commission staff that have championed this project. when i started 2 years ago, judy said we are putting a shovel in the ground at the bayview opera house. judy, thank you for all you do at the opera house. it s an honor to work with you. to robert tacayama and crystal who have made this work at the bayview possible. i would like to thank the goldly fund