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possible opening to traffic and seismic safety. the paramount thats left for the joint venture to complete. i thank everybody for attending and i hope you enjoy the day. >> thank you all again for coming out to mark this momentous occasion. now im going to turn it over to bart for logistics. >> at this point, that concludes the speaking part of the day. and i know that some of you are going to remain on the deck with us and do your live -- were going to go ahead and adjourn the speaker...

also ideally located to recruit top talent, and weve done so. were goiming to -- going to remain small. my standards for hiring top employees, very high. we found good employees and theyve relocated from other cities in california and the east coast to work here. so weve brought new, talented people into the company. we also have people who commute in from the peninsula. i think thats another strong selling point that people in mission bay dont realize. were at the center of a transit ...

this bridge marks a huge improvement to connecting san francisco, and also connecting treasure island, which is the development that will be -- its a development thats under way, and will hopefully be a place where everyone can also enjoy and ride their bicycles. next year well be celebrating the 75th anniversary of the bay area bridge. i want to remind everyone to look forward to that celebration. it should be huge. i know theres a number of projects, some lighting of the bridge and a...

role -- particular structural engineer how to do his framing, i am sure he knows better than me now. it does not strike me as fact pertinent as to what is before us. there is no doubt that a bank is supposed to removal of materials on somebody elses property and you do not have authorization to access it, the permit is sort of void and mute. -- moot. i believe the attorney alluded to it, but it was not stated extensively that the previous agreement still applied. for such a limited sco...

we are very excited today to have a press release from the mayor and have him join us. this has been an amazing experience for those of us from the very beginning. we look forward to sharing that story with you. without further ado, mayor lee. >> thank you, katherine. thank you very much for being here. i wanted to join this great moment of celebration for fibrogen, which is more than a serial. that was what i first thought when i saw that name. i want to congratulate fibrogen and all ...

the driveway, bringing the rage into san francisco. as we heard from the mayor, it is a very, very important part of the project because it does connect san francisco. as you know, of 100 million people use this bridge in a year to come to san francisco. but the construction of the bridge itself brings a lot of jobs to the bay area and were very, very happy about that in support of all the work that our president is doing in washington to bring more of projects of this type. this bridg...

originally we were located in pasadena. i wanted to relocate the company to san francisco. i looked at a number of places in the bay area. after looking at places in the east bay and the peninsula, i realized the company should be right here in the mission bay innovation center. why? we were always going to remain small. i wanted to be a capital efficient company, and the opportunities to maintain cost control were huge by relocating the company here. being in san francisco, we are als...

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...

you may be paying $30 a month for electricity. thank you for inviting me to come. i am still going to be there. i want to be part of the committees set up talking about solar and the rising of the see coming into my area. that area is landfills. people do not want to realize that it looks good, but it is not good. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you for your dedicated energy to help us achieve this goal through the closure of those power plants. to wrap things up, we have thos...

>> thank you for joining us. im katherine sharp. we are very excited today to have a press release from the mayor and have him join us. this has been an amazing experience for those of us from the very beginning. we look forward to sharing that story with you. without further ado, mayor lee. >> thank you, katherine. thank you very much for being here. i wanted to join this great moment of celebration for fibrogen, which is more than a serial. that was what i first thought when i saw...