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>> good morning, everyone. im jennifer mats. im director of the mayors office of economic and work force development. id like to welcome you here this morning to the grand opening of pearls and for announcement regarding our community ambassador program here on central market as well as some increased public safety measures. without further ado, im going to introduce mayor ed lee and then a few other speakers to talk about the initiatives and talk about pearl. so mayor lee? >> thank y...

have accomplished, the range of people you have been able to touch with your music. you chose a beautiful word in spanish for your foundation -- miracle. could you talk about what the foundation has been able to do? >> we are able to empower and give young people a way for them to develop their own decisions. i started with my own vision. there are people like andre agassi who helped finance. desmond tutu. in essence, in the bay area, like on larkin street, i want to see people invest ...

today we have not been exposed or had to pay for taking those risks. in terms of the economic package, we assumed that a fully operating building, where our costs for the space they have are pushed through directly with no mark-up. it would be attractive compared to the alternative of having to build an entire leasehold at 2,000 square feet and build another one at 8,000 and build another one at 20,000, and that indeed has been the case. so people dont object about the economics and we...

that may have different attitudes and ideas, different points of view, find themselves in one room, and all this sudden start talking to one another. then magic happens. differences melt away and you come together as a community come as a neighborhood. those are the magical things about a library. that is one of the reason why the commission, the city family, decided that we would not simply open up a place where there was going to be a bunch of tables and everyone would sit there and ...

it took me three years to get. we need more capital. i tried to get a line of credit from wells capital. i was decline. where does someone like myself go? i have a loan, i need additional funding. >> did you try through the sba? >> i already have an sba loan. i went to wells fargo for a line of credit and they would not give me one. >> i can speak to you about it. when we look at funds that are needed, the biggest thing we look at our cash flow. i can address that with you. unless ther...

>> good morning, everyone. im jennifer mats. im director of the mayors office of economic and work force development. id like to welcome you here this morning to the grand opening of pearls and for announcement regarding our community ambassador program here on central market as well as some increased public safety measures. without further ado, im going to introduce mayor ed lee and then a few other speakers to talk about the initiatives and talk about pearl. so mayor lee...

kim is here. jennifer with thank you very much, supervisors. tiffany, director of our redevelopment agency. thank you for being a great partner on this. our chief of police, who is making sure -- because he just signed a lease right next door down the block for the sixth street substation. were getting that bill! [applause] that is coming onboard next year and its on its way. he signed a lease. the construction documents are getting in place. we just have to get past the little freeze ...

mission and a completely reasonable objection of neighbors who are concerned about a five-story building going in on their block, which is something we see in san francisco all the time, and there is nothing exceptional or inappropriate about people taking issue with the size of a building. i grow up in the philadelphia area, in new jersey, went to school up and down the east coast. i went to undergrad at duke university and law school at harvard. after clerking for a judge, i came out...

therapy, its too expressive, they cant get to hospitals, things like that. in china, theres about 20 million people that are desperately anemic by the u.s. standard. theyre more anemic than the worst cases in the u.s. theyre medically urgent cases. so were the first to do this. what well require is you build a factory here to make the medicine, but well allow you to move forward on that path. so in the course of events, i met many chinese government officials all over china. in the pas...

>> this lodge is home to some of the best fly casting pools in the world. these shallow concrete pools dont have fish. this is just a place where people come to practice their fly casting technique. ith was built in the 1930s and ever since, people have been coming here to get back to nature. every year, the world championship of fly casting is held in san francisco and visitors from all over the globe travel to be here. >> we are here with phil, general manage of san francisco rec...