We would urge every other neighborhood that is facing such a major disruption to business to follow our footsteps. Get involved, and make sure we are actively involved with whatever the department and contractors that are involved. Yes, i have attended the dumb festival in chinatown. It is organized dumpling festival in chinatown. It is a promotion for the businesses in chinatown. Many of the restaurants participated by providing different types of dumplings. Delicious. I mentioned previously, i been working with oewd on a possible concert for jobs area that continues to progress. I just want to drop while everybody is here. When it hopefully pops up down the road, we are already to jump in and be supportive. Any other commissioner comments . Do we have any members of the public that would like to make comments on Commission Reports . Seeing none. Next item, please. Item ten, new business. Allows commissioners to introduce new agenda items for future consideration by the commission. Discussion item. Any new business or from any of the commissioners . Do we have any members of the public who would like to comment on new business . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Richard kurylo please show the office of Small Business live. Sf gov tv please show the Small Business commission lie. A reminder that the office of Small Business is the only place to start a new business in San Francisco on the best place to get an answer to your questions about doing business in San Francisco. The office of Small Business should be your first stop when you have questions about what to do next. You can find us online or in person here at city hall. All of our services are free of charge. Small Business Commission is the official public forum to voice your concerns about policies that affect the Economic Vitality of Small Businesses in San Francisco. If you need assistance with Small Business matters start here at the office of Small Business. Next item. Adjournment. Do we have a motion to adjourn . Meeting is adjourned at 4 05 p. M. Everybody, i think were going to get started. Our honorable mayor is here, and i know that we have a huge crowd and some big celebrating to do, so i want to welcome you to the groundbreaking for 88 broadway and 75 david street. So im cynthia parker, and im the president and c. E. O. Of Bridge Housing, and i am the cohost today with our partner, john stewart, but what i want to do is acknowledge all of the people here in the audience who have helped us get here today. So with us, we have mayor london breed, our honorable and esteemed mayor, welcome. [applause] we have supervisor aaron peskin, whos been a big supporter, and thank you, supervisor peskin. We have Elaine Forbes whos executive director of the port of San Francisco. Thank you for coming and your help. [applause] we have many reps from bank of america. Liz, thanks for coming. [applause] we have bruce cantor whos a member of the northeast Waterfront Advisory Group. [applause] and we have bob carrier whos a member of the Barbary Coast neighborhood association. So thank you for coming. [applause] this group thats sitting here today sort of does represent a neighborhood inside of a village, the village of San Francisco. And two neighborhood associations, a Waterfront Advisory Group, and partners with the city, with the Mayors Office of housing and jayesco have really made this happen during the development period. I know that john stewart is going to comment on some of this, but i know there are 26 neighborhood meet there were 26 neighborhood meetings that made this happen, and i want to do a special shoutout to john stewart who lives in this neighborhood and wanted to make sure that these two developments reflect the values of this community, and i think they do. So thank you, john, for all of your hard work, and forever, your partnership with that. When this r. F. P. Came out from the city of San Francisco, i ran into jack gardner whos the other principle at jayesco. You know, he said, we did north beach together. Do you think its time to get the band back together and respond to this r. F. P. . I said yes, and we did it, and we were selected. Frankly, i think we were the right team to pull this project together. It has made a big difference to this neighborhood for all the reasons i just said. 26 meetings, resident developer, and a commitment to make this happen. I want to also acknowledge some special shoutouts to both the city and the mayor, to your commitment to Affordable Housing and to these kinds of developments. This project is really special because it is one of the few thats really said were going to hows both seniors and a Senior Development and families and have an income mix that represents both formerly Homeless People as well as people up to median income, up to 80 of median income, the missing middle. And that doesnt happen very often. I and believe it will completely and i believe it will completely be a success because it weve all because weve all worked so hard, and it represents this community. And i believe we will get more housing in the ground because we need nor housing in the city. [applause] so with that, im not going to steal the thunder. We have a lot of speakers here today, and with that, what i do want to do is invite our lovely mayor to come up. She has the values and tgumptin to make Affordable Housing in the city. I invite you to come up to say a few words. [applause] the hon. London breed thank you, cynthia. Its so great to be here with you because john, we know this project was a long time coming. We work hard in this city to try to repurpose this whole waterfront. Some of you were around during this 89 earthquake. I certainly was. I remember when this used to be a water way, and look at how beautiful our waterfront has become with a lot of businesses, a lot of housing, and here is an opportunity to provide 178 units of Affordable Housing for families and seniors. This is absolutely amazing. [applause] the hon. London breed and let me just also say that last year, it was brought to my attention that for the Senior Development that were being placed here at 735 davis street, there were still so many seniors who didnt meet the minimum income qualifications because we know that there are a lot of different challenges with affordability in San Francisco. People who are low, extremely low, people who are just exiting homelessness, people who just barely meet the minimum qualifications, and sometimes those who exceed it by just a little bit. Its why we have to change access to Affordable Housing in San Francisco. And we along with the Mayors Office of housing and kate hartley identified revenues in order to buydown the availability so that more residents who are in this community can actually qualify for housing in the communities in which they live. So i want to thank you, kate, for your leadership on that effort. We are going to have diverse homes of mixed incomes living in these developments. So supervisor peskin, former president of the board, but representative of this district, you know im going to need your help to make sure that as we break ground on this project, we dont want any delays, we dont want any challenges, we dont want any issues because we need this housing, and a oneday delay is a oneday delay of housing for those who need it the most. We had a press conference for 600 million Affordable Housing bond, the largest bond in the history of this city that the board of supervisors is going to be voting on unanimously to put on the ballot, and were going to do so without raising property taxes in a very responsible way, which is how we should be handling the citys and the taxpayers money in our city. But it means a lot because we know that there are challenges with affordability in our city. And we know that we have to work harder and faster to get this much needed Affordable Housing units built. People are counting on us to make good decisions and to not allow bureaucracy to get in the way of much needed Affordable Housing. Thank you to everyone whos joining us today because those 178 seniors and families, when they move into those units, when theyre looking out those new windows, when theyre cooking dinner on their new stove, can you think about how it might feel especially if you didnt have housing in the first place, if you lived in an s. R. O. And you didnt have a kitchen, can you imagine what its going to mean to people to live right here in this beautiful, amazing community, which once consisted of darkness and a friday and is now open with all of the light and incredible views, a place where everyone want to live in in San Francisco, and they will be a part of the future of this great city. No one will be left behind as a result of this great project, so thank you to john stewart and John Stewart Company. Thank you so much to Bridge Housing and cynthia, to kate, to supervisor peskin, and all the Community Members and the people who helped make this possible. This is truly San Francisco at its best, and there is more to come. Thank you all so much. [applause] the hon. London breed sorry. I want to introduce john stewart, but i want to just say that i met john stewart over 20 years ago. And i used to work at treasure island, and some of you remember when that housing was empty, and it was vacated by the navy, and we have the task of rehabilitating those units and moving formerly homeless veterans, formerly homeless families and other people of all incomes into treasure island. The partnership with John Stewart Company was not just a partnership that helped to rehabilitate those units, they also helped to make sure that those formerly homeless families and veterans had working utilities, and that they had Coffee Makers and dishes and beds and sheets and all the things that so many people may take for granted. But these were people who were starting their lives over. And the person who led that effort without being asked to do so was john stewart himself, and so ladies and gentlemen, john stewart of John Stewart Company. [applause] the mayor has been drinking early. Well talk later. Thank you so much. Ed lee was once to say, ill keep it short because i am short. That was his big oneliner. A few comments that i really wanted to speak about, i think two or three things. First, i get a lot of questions on the piles that were sinking into the ground at 90 feet and 60 feet. Theyre not impact piles as the way that have occurred at many sites. These are augering, theyre very sensitive to the neighbors because theyre not impact piles. Theres going to be 170 of them, and theyre very sensitive to the neighbors. And also, we dont want to repeat we got the memo on the millennium towers, and were going to bedrock. It seemed like a good idea. Also, people asked me about those cobblestones. When we dug down 8 feet, we found shoes, elixir bottles, and we also found a whole series of red caps which said make America Great again, and were going to be selling them later to enhance our Financial Balance Sheet on this deal. On the subject of process, i think were particularly proud of the fact that over 4plus, almost 5 years, we had a Record Number of meeting involving a myriad of local involvement, various people you can see authorities and housing entities that all had a stake in this thing, and they all came out, and they all spoke their piece, which i will in closing do a few shoutouts. There is something that i would call district 3 deja vu, and im looking at aaron now because 17 years ago, a young supervisor along with a young mayor at the time, willie brown, started working on a project called north beach place. Its out of the its off the cliff side. Its a project that has great similarity to what you see today. For those of you that are a little long in the tooth, you might remember that project. It also was affordable. It had mixed income, mixed use, and mixed age. We have, too, so there. And one of the things that strikes me about it, aaron peskin, i think really made a statement because he was boots on the ground, went to every meeting, very supportive of that project as he was then and he is now. Its my pleasure to introduce the supervisor. [applause] supervisor peskin mayor breed, ms. Parker, mr. Stewart, to your respective organization, but most importantly to the community and amongst those and first and foremost amongst those, the Barbary Coast neighbors. It is true almost 20 years ago that i attended all of those meetings at north beach place, but thankfully, i attended few if any in this particular project. But mr. Cantor did, miss taylor did, and i want to say they made it a better project. This neighborhood involvement made this a better project. Let me say a few words about what my mayor said, and it is the history of the embarcadero freeway which was, by all accounts, a terrible urban planning mistake. And then, in 1989, after the loma prieta earthquake, we had a mayor who had the courage to rip that thing down. And by the time thenstate senator quentin kopp transferred the property to the city for one american dollar, willie brown was mayor. And there was a little neighborhood fight about what we were going to do with those parcels. One was going to be a police station, one was going to be a butterfly museum, one was going to be Affordable Housing. I am pleased to say that today, they are all Affordable Housing for the city and county of San Francisco. That is remarkable. [applause] supervisor peskin now, it is true that i wanted this site, even though my friends at the Barbary Coast neighbors disagreed, i wanted this to be a temporary navigation site. But the mayor and i and supervisor haney have teamed up to find one not so far away. And i also want to agree with the mayor that Affordable Housing is actually not that affordable, and we all know the numbers that we just saw, the homeless count. And its just not San Francisco, its portland, seattle, and los angeles, continue to rise. So here are 53 units that are going to keep some of my seniors and this is the district that has the highest percentage of seniors in the city and county of San Francisco from being homeless. But you know what . Its not affordable to many of our seniors, which is precisely why miss hartley, mayor breed, president yee and i teamed up to create what we called s. O. S. , senior operating subsidies which is in this years budget for shallow subsidies for seniors so they can actually continue to live and age in place. This is a great day for the city and county of San Francisco, one and all, particularly to the workers who are building this thing. Congratulations. [applause] a. Supervisor peskin all right. This is a weird jurisdictional thing, because you think the owner is the city and county of San Francisco, but it is the port and held in trust by the city and county of San Francisco and lands owned by the public works. Now weirdly enough, the port land is inland, and the public works land is closer to the water, which ive never figured out. But instrumental to this entire project was the port of the city and county of San Francisco, their executive director, miss Elaine Forbes. Hello, everyone. Its very great to be here today. We all love a ground breaking. As you all know, the port manages 7. 5 miles of waterfront property. Our future is very brite since the loma prieta freeway came down, but nothing makes us prouder than to welcome the neighbors and residents who will come to enjoy this community. We are proud to announce what will be a solution to the Affordable Housing crisis. I want to acknowledge, and supervisor peskin knows this very well, it takes the port quite a long time to figure out what to do with its property, and 88 broadway was a very long conversation. And actually, it was the Community Residents that said they would like to use we would like to use these underused lots that youre using for parking. So tom ammiano provided us a bill to be able to use this for housing. Here is another example where we can welcome low, mod, seniors, and formerly Homeless Housing to our waterfront. For us, the northeast Waterfront Advisory Group helped us provide standards for 88 broadway. It was a very patient process, and it did improve the project. Its t