Hello, everyone. Welcome to the bayview bistro. [cheers and applause] i am San Francisco mayor london breed, and i have to tell you, first of all, when it is hot in San Francisco, it is hot in the bayview. [laughter] i mean, really hot. On a regular basis in the bayview, and potrero hill neighborhood and the mission, we know that those are the hotspots in San Francisco. I just came from the sunset and it is hot in the sunset. I knew it was going to be even hotter in the bayview. Im really excited to be here today because nothing brings the Community Together like food, and here is an Incredible Opportunity to really not only enjoyed the Delicious Food provided by some amazing vendors , but this is also an opportunity for the community to come together. When i was growing up in San Francisco, we had food houses. Remember . We could go to somebodys house and buy some nachos or some chicken or some banana pudding, but times have changed. We dont have the grandmothers and the folks who are the ones that were taking care of the community the same way that we do now. Things have changed. The community has changed a lot. We know the Bayview Hunters Point Community has a thriving africanamerican population here , a community filled with love and excitement, and the need for us to come together for occasions like this. Especially because we know that as there is a lot of work that is happening in the Bayview Hunters Point Community, there are a lawsuit also a lot of people working in this community , a lot of People Living in this community. Having amazing food options for and by the people of this communities critical to the success, the longterm success and stability of the Bayview Hunters Point Community. I cited eight. [cheers and applause] if youre from Hunters Point and you dont know harold, you are not from Hunters Point. We have sold bowl. [cheers and applause] and we have yes, putting. With all things sweet. So today is really about making sure that we support them and we support what they are trying to do here for the community. There are a lot of folks who are going to be working on the sewage plants and other projects we just broke ground on one of the Public Safety buildings that is not too far from here, so i was just thinking to myself, what was that building that we just broke ground on, the forensic building and some other something, the Traffic Company. Thank you. Anyway, we were breaking ground over there and i said i wonder where all these workers are going to eat. Where are the restaurants . So we have cafe envy, we have other places here and we want to make sure that, you know, we know that there are places to go to to eat in the Bayview Hunter s point, places to hang out in the community and our goal is to do everything we can to make the right investments so that this community continues to thrive. I want to thank all of you for being here today to support these incredible businesses and thank you to harland kelley kelly with the Public Utilities commission for having the foresight to know that it is not just about rebuilding and investing in our infrastructure and making sure that the communities part of these projects, it is also about investing in other things that play a Critical Role to support this amazing community. With that, another amazing supporter of the Bayview Hunter s Point Community who used to be your supervisor and is now Public Utilities commission are, ladies and gentlemen, sophie maxwell. [cheers and applause] thank you. What a day. What an amazing day in San Francisco. Any time it is warm, i mean, i never get to wear sleeveless clothes. Im always scared to death because i feel the wind will come up any minute. But i can relax. We can relax and be warm in this beautiful space. Im really proud to be a commissioner. Thank you so much. I thought it, but it is a great thing because the p. U. C. Is sponsoring this. These are the kinds of things that San FranciscoPublic Utilities commission is doing. Theyre doing it because they feel they have a responsibility to san franciscans and to people in this community. It is a place where we can connect, where we can laugh, where we can talk about issues and politics, and 45 and kentucky and everything else. We can talk here and this is a good thing. We dont have any banks to wait in line anymore. You are in the bank used to talk to people about things, that is gone. Walgreens, used to meet people at walgreens, well, that is gone , and so we have this and this is where we will connect. I want to thank all of you and i want to thank our partners. I want to think people who have a vision, you understand that, yes, while you are building in the programs, while you are building the sewage plant, there were other things. There are other places and people around you, and that these people have come to the conclusion that is part of their responsibility to help us live and thrive in this community. I want to thank the p. U. C. And i want to thank all of those people who helped make this possible. And now i get introduced one of my most favorite people. One of my most favorite people, that is Shamann Walton because he will make sure that this continues and it will be bigger and better. Shamann walton, supervisor Shamann Walton. [cheers and applause] thank you, supervisor maxwell good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to bayview, and as our mayor said, and we always let everyone know, where the sun is always shining in bayview, california. This is an exciting time. Is a look around and see a lot of our Business Owners up and down the third streetcar door, and one of our main focuses is to make sure we have a vibrant corridor where businesses get to thrive, not only for folks in the community, because we want to make sure we have a place to go like supervisor maxwell explained, so we can talk, we can spend time with our families right here in our own community, but we also want to make bayview a destination place. We want folks to come from all over San Francisco, from all over the bay area to enjoy the culture, to enjoy the businesses , to enjoy the food that we have right here in our own community. So as we look at our own businesses activating space outside and an atmosphere like this, that is an exciting thing for us. That is something that we should all be celebrating and be excited about. I want to thank everyone for coming over today and spending time to get to know our Business Owners who i will introduce in a minute, but i also want to talk about the public, private community partnership. As you know, the Sewer System Improvement Program is coming. Theres going to be lots of construction, lots of change in our community, and Community Benefits were something that we fought hard to make sure happened for our community. Working with the p. U. C. , working with the joint Venture Partners, we got the resources to make sure that this space was activated, that our businesses were going to be able to thrive because of all of the opportunities that are on the way to this community, and we want to continue to be supportive of all of that. I want to thank our joint Venture Partners and thank the p. U. C. , i want to thank the office of economic and workforce development, i want to thank Larry Mcquillan for his hard work on this corridor. [applause] we pushed larry very hard. I want to thank andrea Baker Consulting for all of her work on activating this space. [cheers and applause] she has been working hard to make sure that we have places like this in our community. If you look at this is really towards the front of the gateway into bayview, and if you continue up the corridor, we have another space like all good pizza. All these places are right here that are Community Assets and we all have to remember to patronize. I dont want to just see you all here today as we have this opening ceremony, i want to see you supporting harold, supporting nema, supporting . Asia on a daily basis, on a weekly basis consistently. That peace is important. We need you here every day and not just for a ribboncutting in the grand opening ceremonies. With that said, i do have the pleasure and the honor of introducing the stars of bayview bistro, first will hear from nema romney, a San Francisco native. They have a food truck with a latin twist and then we will hear from harold big h. And then we will hear from mr. Johnson, a San Francisco native and owner of yes, putting putting putting pudding we want to make it easier for Small Businesses to thrive in San Francisco, especially along the corridor here in district ten. With that said, i want to bring up nema romney. Thank you. [applause] thank you, everyone. I first want to say thank you for coming. Out i wrote a script, so have patience with me. My name is nema romney, i have been a native of San Francisco all my life. I would first like to thank our mayor for taking out her busy schedule to come down and support us. [applause] in no specific order, i also like to thank the p. U. C. , oewd, brown and cobb caldwell, black and fitch, salt wash, jacob engineering, and emerson. Last but never least, i would like to thank andrea baker and peugeot, without their opportunity a would not be standing here today. [applause] i opened so bull october 27th, 2017 with the joys and dreams of becoming a business owner. I have bounced around San Francisco because of the permit process that San Francisco has in place. So when andrea reached out to me , i could not resist. My grandmother has lived in i have lived in bayview all my life. Have patience. So the decision to be part of bayview was not hard to make at all. We are facing our challenges, but with the support and the help of our community, as well as bayview with big h. , i hope we have high hopes that high dreams of how far this space can go. Again, i like to thank our mayor , im like to thank everyone for coming out, and i see my son back there in the back. Love you so much. Thank you for coming to support your mom, as well. [cheers and applause] hello, everyone. My name is harold. I own big h. Barbecue. Born and raised in San Francisco , bayview. I have been kicking for a long time with my grandfather, my mom , its been a beautiful thing i want to thank you all for coming out and supporting us. Bayview bistro got me out here and it has been a beautiful thing. Getting my foot in the door, trying to move up and go farther places to support my family a little bit better. I wouldnt be able to do it without you all here. Miss mayor, thank you so much. I appreciate it. [applause] hello. I own a desert business where i create a variety of putting desserts. It all started with banana pudding but has evolved into everything. Stop by my booth to learn more about my business. I would like to thank andrea baker for giving me this opportunity to grow my business here. Being here will allow me to serve customers, gain more customers and just gain the experience that i need to own and operate a business. Thank you. Thank you to the mayor for coming out and supporting, and thank you to bayview for their continued support. [cheers and applause] all right. It is time to eat, people. [laughter] it is time to order up the barbecue and the desserts and everything in between. Make sure, as was said earlier, that you not only show up today for the opening, but you continue to come back and support these incredible entrepreneurs who are part of the fabric of what makes the bayview Hunters Point such a special community in our great city. Thank you for being here today. Enjoy yourselves. [cheers and applause] shop and dine on the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of San Francisco by supporting local Services Within neighborhood. We help San Francisco remain unique, successful and vibrant. Where will you shop and dine in the 49 . San francisco owes the charm to the unique character of the neighborhood comer hall district. Each corridor has its own personality. Our neighborhoods are the engine of the city. You are putting money and support back to the community you live in and you are helping Small Businesses grow. It is more environmentally friendly. Shopping local is very important. I have had relationships with my local growers for 30 years. By shopping here and supporting us locally, you are also supporting the growers of the flowers, they are fresh and they have a price point that is not imported. It is really good for everybody. Shopping locally is crucial. Without that support, Small Business cant survive, and if we lose Small Business, that diversity goes away, and, you know, it would be a shame to see that become a thing of the past. It is important to dine and shop locally. It allows us to maintain traditions. It makes the neighborhood. I think San Francisco should shop local as much as they can. The retail marketplace is changes. We are trying to have people on the floor who can talk to you and help you with products you are interested in buying, and help you with exploration to try things you have never had before. The fish business, you think it is a piece of fish and fisherman. There are a lot of people working in the fish business, between wholesalers and fishermen and bait and tackle. At the retail end, we about a lot of people and it is good for everybody. Shopping and dining locally is so important to the community because it brings a tighter fabric to the community and allows the Business Owners to thrive in the community. We see more Small Businesses going away. We need to shop locally to keep the Small Business alive in San Francisco. Shop and dine in the 49 is a cool initiative. You can see the banners in the streets around town. It is great. Anything that can showcase and legitimize Small Businesses is a legitimize Small Businesses is a hello, everybody. I am london breed, mayor of the city and county of San Francisco , and im really excited to join you here today, but i tell you that no one is more excited than the parents of the kids who will be returning to school on monday. And today is an opportunity to us to really get the word out to people all over San Francisco that we have thousands of kids who are returning to school on monday. We will see kids walking, we will see them by king, we will see them on buses and yes, some of them will get dropped off by parents in their car. But ultimately, we want everyone will get around this city safely because there will be more people out on the streets now than ever before as a school began on monday. So a part of today is really about highlighting the awareness that we need people to slow down we need people to be aware. We need people to do better. We have had sadly a number of tragedies that have occurred on our city streets and we know, unfortunately, that has a lot to do sometimes with speed. We need to slow down. Yes, i have asked the chief to increase citations, and to be aware in this high injury corridors, the need to make sure that there are consequences for people who are speeding, which sadly can cause tragedy. If a pedestrian is hit by a driver at 20 Miles Per Hour, their risk of fatality is 5 , but if that is 30 Miles Per Hour , their risk jumps to 45 . What we dont want to continue is sadly what we see happening on our streets where we are losing far too many lives, and our most precious assets are our children, so we want to make sure that when they are moving around San Francisco, going back to school, that they are safe. When i was a kid, i went to School Across the street from where i lived. It used to be called but the name is now rosa parks elementary school. What was so cool about that is we would all just walk to school someone would walk up to my window, yell my name, there would already be three or four kids. We would get to the corner on eddie and buchanan, and then there was a crossing guard right there to make sure that all cars stopped so we could safely get across the streets and move on our way to get to school. I never realized how valuable that was until i became an adult and i see so many kids that are out there trying to get to school. We were also taught to look both ways before crossing the street. We also have to get back to some ba