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Among Otis Reddings collection, the new braniff street wharf is a jewel among the ports park open space collection, and we are so amazingly proud of it. It has taken a very long time and hundreds of people. The transformation of this kind of a waterfront doesnt come easy. For those of you who know it keenly, it was a thousand feet of failing edge, dilapidated pier and a tried but true seawall. And today as you look around, it is a thousand feet of public space, a place where we can walk along and experience the bay peacefully, playfully, we can gather here, we can work here, we can recreate he...

Development of the waterfront and the Commission Works very hard with the port staff. In the ports waterfront land use plan, our blueprint for the 71 2 miles of waterfront, we make a conscious effort to plan and maintain open access for the benefit of our residents and our visitors. And the port now has 86 acres of open space which is about 10 of the port property. And our ongoing plan can youxv for increasing this amount to 28 acres within the next eight years. So, this is not the beginning or the end, but were in the midst of what were trying to do. But as you know, you heard from all the ot...

Space. It takes a village for us to build a park and i want to very much add the thanks to the so many city staff that came together who monique and mayor lee have already mentioned, but i want to thank in particular the port for your leadership over the many years, all the departments, mayor lee. I also want to thank an agency that i had the pleasure of serving on that many members of the public dont know much about, the bcdc, the bacon Certification Development commission. applause thank you, bcdc. So, those of you who dont know, bcdc is the commission that is responsible for protecting the ...

History of our city and particularly the hard history of our waterfront labor struggles. And that International Long shore and work house union, yes, very important part of our citys history. applause are reflected in these wonderful artistic and historic panels. And that will just give us even much more of a deeper sense of appreciation for what our city does with this. Then this opens up a viewpoint that i know you know that i personally share because its not just the history. Were also going to be opening up this area for even more people as we establish and get going on piers 3032 and tran...

The port, its commission and the staff, because this is in fact 150 years of celebration of our port. And what a way to celebrate with all these wonderful things that are happening here. Its taken 15 years for this project to get done, 15 years. Thats a 10th of the history of the port of San Francisco. And theres a lot of people to thank and moniques already thanked them, but its worth repeating. I think the big Conservation Development commission, the Port Commission, our port staff, public works, all our departments behind me, rec and park, our federal partners have certainly been extremely ...