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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 we're 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 bridge marks a huge improvement to connecting san francisco, and also connecting treasure island, which ...

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 also ideally located to recruit top talent, and we've done so. we're goiming to -- going to remain smal...

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 don't object about the economics and we stayed on this path of passing through the cash costs that we incur as the basis for renting out s...

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 those who have made this building what it is. the manager of sustainability programs for the academy of ...

>> thank you for joining us. i'm 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 that name. i want to congratulate fibrogen and all the companies that have spouted up. i had -- th...