We are forch tunate to have a truly all star design team. I like to thank min design, [calling design team] [applause] all of these great firms worked under the direction of the Wonderful Team who artistic vision is a driving force for the park we are dedicated today. Hello. Today represents the culmination of decades of visionary thinkish, gritd and hard work. On behamp of the team, congratulations to everyone who played a role bringing this park to life. I also like to say thank you tiffman spire, San Francisco giants, the port of San Francisco and all who entrusted the design to scape. Much of the early efforts focus on building consensus what the park needed to be and how to best serve the public giant fans, local residents and members of the new mission rock community. This unmatched site is so inspiring and offered up so many aspets. Oracle park, mucevy code, San Francisco sky line and bayviews. I lost my spot. [laughter] and the new mission rock neighborhood. We work carefully t
Weeks ago. On the morning of giant opening day and what seemed like just minutes the park was full of people, exploring this corner of the waterfront. By all accounts, they liked it. We have a great lawn overlooking the bay. We have something that the neighborhoods of north beach and south beach do not have, a beach. [laughter] there is a gathering grove, a storm water garden, food trucks, and willie mccuvy returned perched gracefully on the shoreline of the china basin channel or some refer to it mccovey cove. Joining us today is the daughter, allison. Today is about expressing our appreciation and gratitude to all who made this possible. This park did not happen overnight. We started planning for this day more then 15 years ago. It has been a long journey since our very first workshop at the port. Throughout, it has been a very collaborative process, with active participation from virtually all possible stakeholders. Before continuing with the program, i wanted to acknowledge someone
The program will continue, time will tell. The information channel on the first continues, this program, time will tell, these days a meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club is taking place in sochi, today the traditional meeting of Vladimir Putin with the Club Participants is expected, according to the president ial press secretary dmitry peskov, every speech by putin is an event global scale , we will closely follow, whenever. There is an opportunity to show you the president s speech, we will certainly do it live on channel one, do not miss Vladimir Putins speech at the meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. Well, in the meantime, lets move to the front , we have war correspondent arti alexander peskunov on direct line, lets find out how the situation is now in the ugledar direction, alexander, hello, the word is, whats new, what surprises the enemy, the direction was hot, is it still hot now . Olesya, hello, hello, ruslan, in the uugledar direction, everyt
Our journey began last august, and many of you were actually here that day, when the ikea city store opened for the public. And then in january, we welcomed industerous or flexible coworking space on the 5th floor. Today we are here, this is our next big milestone to celebrate opening of the hall. This incredible space really showcase the hard work, the dedication, the commitment from so many of you, and i want to take this special moment to thank each and every one of you who have been supporting, helping, contributing, driving, sometimes even pushing this through and making this day happen become possible. As we stand here today, i am really excited for the future, and what the future holds for us and im really looking forward working with together with you to make this hall concept be successful here in our Meeting Place and in San Francisco. Lets make today the beginning of something truly remarkable. Thank you. [applause] the city of San Francisco has been a great partner to us th
In tiles and part of the park. More later, but not today. We removed the construction fencing surrounding the park just a few weeks ago. On the morning of giant opening day and what seemed like just minutes the park was full of people, exploring this corner of the waterfront. By all accounts, they liked it. We have a great lawn overlooking the bay. We have something that the neighborhoods of north beach and south beach do not have, a beach. [laughter] there is a gathering grove, a storm water garden, food trucks, and willie mccuvy returned perched gracefully on the shoreline of the china basin channel or some refer to it mccovey cove. Joining us today is the daughter, allison. Today is about expressing our appreciation and gratitude to all who made this possible. This park did not happen overnight. We started planning for this day more then 15 years ago. It has been a long journey since our very first workshop at the port. Throughout, it has been a very collaborative process, with acti