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 that kind of collaboration, that kind of problem solving that got us here today. Theres a lot of port staffers in the audience that have been working here for sometime. Thank you so much, and id like to introduce liz minnick from the bank of america. [applause] good afternoon, everyone, and what a glorious afternoon we have for this fabulous day today. Bank of america was founded in this very city in 1904 and has a long history of helping people get in homes and working towards Affordable Housing. From the work after the 1906 earthquake to the recent work with the San Francisco r. A. V. Commission and the rehabilitation of sorry. Well let the coast guard get back. 29 properties for which we financed over 2. 2 billion. For these two properties that we are discussing today, bank of america has provided over 133 million in financing. First, thank you to all of our bank of mercteams to continue their efforts on america teams to continue their efforts on helping to provide housing. And now, i will introduce brynna cantor. [applause] good afternoon. We were involved in the long process of the design of this building. Its just incredible that were going to see more family and Senior Housing here, which is really important to keep our city diverse. We certainly need more of them. It also includes a child care facility, so thats why i have my daughter here, simone, who has become a conoisseur of all the child care facilities in the city. Since this center is going to have a playground, i think shes going to want to check that out, right, simone . Mmhmm. Thanks to the Mayors Office of housing and all the great inclusive bidding that we had during this process, and of course, John Stewarts wonderful team, including us along every step of the way. Had countless meetings. Our supervisor, aaron peskin, and the previous supervisor, julie christiansen, who really got the project going for us. Again, just really impressed with the outreach from the community stages of the project. The team reacted to Community Concerns along the way and modified the project to a very mature building which you see on these drawings here today. In particular, were really impressed with the ground level uses for the community, the services, retail, etc. , that that activate the street. This was a great example of how our project should happen. So you think thats good . Yes. So ill keep it here with introducing one of our Barbary Coast representatives, bob hauer. Thank you, bruno. Good afternoon, everybody. I know its hot, so ill try to be as brief as i possible can. First of all, i want to say on behalf of the Barbary Coast neighborhood association, im very happy to be here today as this project starts to take almost a concrete step forward to bring some badly needed housing to San Francisco. And i also want to express my sincere appreciation to the port and the Mayors Office of housing for all the opportunities that they gave to listen to the neighborhood and to work with us and to resolve well, not resolve, but to work with us to help design a project that really will work for the neighborhood. I think there were many, many discussions and meetings and a number of outcomes that are very positive. Two id like to mention in particular. First of all, if we look at the residents, not only will this housing unit have room and units designated for the formerly homeless and lowincome, but it will also have units for the middleincome households. And this is a first in San Francisco, and its my understanding that thisll be the first large multifamily unit for Affordable Housing that will have units for the middleincome households, and i think everybody should be aware of the shrinking population that we have of the middleincome population in this town. Secondly, i think the development of the ground floor is another real positive outcome. Rather than having a large parking garage that wouldnt add to the ambiance of the neighborhood, we have a location for child care for the children. All of this will serve to activate the neighborhood further. I think it will create a much more pleasant experience along this area of broadway. And then finally, i want to mention the certainly our appreciation to the John Stewart Company and Bridge Housing. The design is attractive. Theyve gone through a number of extra measures to make sure its not a boring, institutional structure, and i certainly appreciate all the different opportunities that they have provided to for the neighborhood to get some input. So with that, ill just close by saying i think this project is a tremendous asset, will be a tremendous asset to the neighborhood, and it will make this stretch of broadway even more inviting. And so with that, i am done, and i will let john stewart handle the closing of this ceremony. Thank you. [applause] thank you. I have to add one codicil to whats been said. We observe neighborhood reactions to the concept of formerly homeless, and they run screaming from the run. Theres a lack of opposition. On this project, theres six entities that reviewed all of all of our designs and plans and our sociology. Not once did i hear anybody say oh, wow, youre going to have formerly homeless . Therell be 37 formerly homeless . That to me was a first. And also, i think they liked the idea of combining the two. That hybrid between formerly homeless making general assistance 30 of a. M. I. And people making 10,000 a month will be a grant interesting social experiment that we as a company have not tried before, and im sure our supervisor will be making many calls to us. In fact, i can hear you now, aaron. His battery has gone dead. I will quickly say there were a few other stars in the community. I just want to give a quick shoutout to ed stan hayes. Janet, barbara, janice, and ken. The fabric of this neighborhoods going to change with the additional units. Architect, l. M. S. Bill letty, Aaron Thorton were in every one of the Public Meetings that we had over four years. Theyll bore you to death talking about quotes, but theyre really nice people at heart. Lenders, b of a, and the woman with the money, kate hartley. Thank you, and thank you. The contractor, what can you say . Cahill happened to be the contractor 17 years ago at north beach place. Actually, i think Howard Carlson was one of the supervisors then, and he still is, so thats what i call good employee retention. We have alex shafer, don brooks, and of course, chuck pele is one of our stars. Hes fantastic. And the port, weve already done that, elaine forbes. Mickey tuzanni and michael martin. Gail gilman and Victor Makras are on the commission, and theyre here today, and thank you for attending. Cindys staff are what we call our intrepids. Thank you, mayor breed, for causing them to be so totally active. I would start with kate hartley, kudos to you. You were with this thing from the beginning. We appreciate it. Youve got a great team. Luther from social services, cushman and wakefield are all going to be contributors to this. We do have a cafe and a restaurant going in here, and youre all expected to come and be big tippers when we open up that resurant. Bridge side, and i have to say, im looking at cynthia, marie tabor, give her a raise. She paid me to just say that. You owe me, marie, and in our office, several people have dedicated a large part of their lives to this. Lastly, there are some empty chairs who represent back in the day. Olson lee, well have the cobblestones along with the make America Great caps. Last, mayor ed lee. He loved this project. I remember talking to him about this the week before he left us, and he loved this. What a fantastic legacy for you to carry on, and dont think we forget about it, supervisor peskin. So with that, i stand between you and a free lunch, and there is one occasionally, so we are now going to do the ground breaking. Somebody needs to get a shovel, and we need some earth. Well do that, and then, well all get a free lunch. Thank you very much, everybody, for coming. The hon. London breed five, four, three, two, one. All right. Get to work . 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