niversary of adoption of vision zero. that is event at city hall mayor spoke and director tumlin spoke and community and elected leaders spoke and i was very pleased we marked that milestone. >> good morning everyone. let's all give a happy birtday for golden gate park! [applause] a brief love note to kick off the festivities. so, in a city like san francisco, parks are really powerful places, and they rep mind us that place is powerful. and golden gate park just might be san francisco's most important place to understand golden gate park is to understand san francisco. from the post gold rush years to the 1906 earthquake and fire, from the panama pacific international expigz and summer of love. aids epidemic and explosion of

business and jobs it is a oasis through the joy, misery, growth, invasion. within the parks majestic canopy are stories. stories about class, about race, about nationality and religion. stories about conflict and peace. stories about gentrification and equity. stories about constancy and change. stories about stewardship and stories about destruction. stories about technology and nature, about celebration and suffering, about all arts, music and food. about love gartherings and solitary strolls. stories about communities neighborhoods and families. stories about all of us. on a personal note, this park is my post important place. no other place knows me better. this park watched me fall in love, raise my two daughters, make friends, build my career. golden gate park helped me work

through struggles and challenges and helped me find joy, health and inspiration. the trail network and tree canopy offered me privacy and shelter to find myself. during my time as our parks director i had the hum bllg opportunity to influence the park landscape, form and rhythm through both preservation and through change. through the ghost of william hamenhall and john malaren watching closely. over the last 15 years we restored the fountains and band shell and music concourse. rebuild the mercy windgil and mark station. renovated the soccer fields and club house. ceezer stadium, cezer triangle. we added--behind me, the first piece of permanent art added to the park in generations in conserve tore valley. we added a restroom at the 45th

avenue playground. renovating the bloleing greens. improve all the park entrances and signs. we now call speedway meadow hellman hollow and middle drive east, nancy pelosi drive and sharon meadow robin william meadow. we added a musical evening light show to the conservancy of flowers, piano to botanical barden. tea house. outside land music festival to polo fields and a portion of this beautiful space that used to be call jfk is now a car free prom naund for hundreds of thousands walk, run, roll, ride, sun-bathe and enjoy art music and food. while visitors once traversed the park on horse and buggy, and now travel on scooters, segues, bicycles.

the park became a safe refuge during the covid pandemic. we celebrated a bunch of anversity. the redwood grove, spreckels lake. holiday tree lighting. the 50th anniversary of summer of live and in 2020 celebrated in the rain the parks own 150th anniversary. we got a little shorted because of the pandemic, so 154 is the new 150, which is why we are making such a to do out of today. [applause] golden gate park is resilient and bigger then any one event, policy, decision or person. but that doesn't mean our kunt stewardship of the space isn't critical. ernest hemmingway, today is one day in all the days that will ever be but what will happen in all the other

days that come can depend on what you do today. perhaps only this park itself knows what the future holds. it is the keeper of all of this city stories and secrets. no doubt it will always be the guardian of san francisco's treasureed public memory, so happy birthday golden gate park. you will always be san francisco's very important place. [applause] not bad for 154 year old. i'm not that old. alright. so, we all love the space. and if is really really nice to be here. i'm going to introduce a bunch of special guests that are here. we have a lot of honored guests here. we have let's give up for the amazing rec and park staff for generations and generations. [applause] but, i now have the great pleasure of introducing our city's official

park champion in chief here to celebrate the parks beautiful birthday, our mayor, london breed. [applause] >> i mean, who doesn't love a birthday party? ! it is so great to be here to celebrate 154/i guess 150 years of golden gate park and what it is meant to the people of san francisco. how many of you were alive in 1870? nobody? nobody? okay. well, the thing about this park and the establishment, it made it possible for people all over san francisco to enjoy. it has so many stories phil talked about and it has a great story i want to tell about the children's park, which was the first public playground for children in the city and county of

san francisco, and how many of you have spent time going up and down that slide with a piece of cardboard? memories all over the place. and this place has so many more stories. the conserve tory of flowers behind me was the first building erected in golden gate park in 1879 and as time went on this place hosted over 2 million people for the world fair in 1894. when i think about the summer of love, because you think golden gate park and summer of love, this place has been a beacon of hope excitement love and laughter and we continue the tradition with so many amazing public performances with music, including outside lands and comedy day and other events that really bring joy and lift our spirits. and we have the academy of

sciences. we have the d young museum. we have so many other-we have the lisa and doug goldman tennis center and we have so many options for people to play and have fun and to enjoy. during the pandemic, i just to back up a bit, growing up as a kid in this city, we would catch the bus and walk to golden gate park and put on our roller skates and we roller skate and we would hope that somebody had a boom box because you know how it was with the batteries that wouldn't last very long, so people have their boom boxes, roller skating, dancing and everything else and david miles has taken it to a whole another level down the street with an amazing place for people to skate and have fun. when i think about golden gate park, i think about so many things. this can be whatever you want

it to be on any given day depending on your mood. but what it did for the people of san francisco during a global pandemic was extraordinary. in fact, a spent a lot of times during the pandemic with my hoodie on walking to golden gate park, walking through and around and honesty getting lost sometimes in golden gate park and this was a place where i saw people and i saw people outside safely social distancing with their mask on, but never the less, getting fresh air and coming together and bringing their kids and family members out here in wheelchairs and baby strolers and bikes and you name it, they were all out here enjoying this beautiful park. how fortunate are we that this park is now being considered to be one of the best parks in the entire united states by usa today?

[applause] and it isn't too late to vote so go online to usatoday to make it official. and by the way, we are 200 acre bigger in golden gate park then now york so they can continue to eat their heart out. [laughter] there are so many things we can say about the beauty and the transformation and i know everybody here probably has a personal story, maybe it was your first kiss, like phil talked about falling in love with his wife emily. maybe it was when you met someone and became friends over your dogs sharing a bond or your kids, who knows, but that is what makes this park so special, because of those stories and are those experiences and i guarantee that all most every single story that you will hear about this park is one of joy. is one of happiness.

is also one of pride for this park and for the city of san francisco, so as we celebrate today, i want to take this opportunity to of course recognize its history and its value to the people of san francisco and the visitors from throughout the bay area and the world and i want to take this opportunity to really thank those people who are really in the background, doing all the work. you'll see a tree, maybe have fallen one day and the next day it is not there. there are people who take a lot of pride in protecting, supporting and keeping golden gate park looking like one of the most incredible beautiful parks anywhere in the world and that is so many of our public-our rec and park workers, our gardeners, all of you, please raise your hand if you are one of the people responsible for this

beautiful oasis. [applause] thank you for all you do for not just go golden gate park, but 220 parks around the entire city. it is so great to be here with each and every one of you and to just celebrate this incredible milestone and of course, where there is cake it is always a party. so, thank you and at this time-am i introducing somebody phil? last but not least and as i said, as someone who grew up in san francisco, our parks overall have always looked good, but not this good. they have gotten so much better and i'll tell you, it is a is couple reasons. number one, it is the park bonds the voters continue to vote on to support parks, which provide the resources for the investments made. number two, it is the park alliance and folks like ben davis who raise private dollars in order to invest in

the parks, and number three, it is the people who do the work. i can't get my hair wet. number three, it is the people who do the work. thank you. thank you kat. rec and park, okay. [laughter] that's my bay sox jacket. these are hard to get. number three, again it is the people who do the work every single day and take pride in that work. i want to express my appreciation to each and every one of you for making today special and even the rain can't stop us from enjoying a good old fashion birthday party celebrating golden gate park. happy 154th birthday! thank you. [applause] >> one thing better then cake and hat is rained on cake.

we were here 2020 for the 150 and it was also raining and i just are want to make a moment to reflect on the four years since. who knew in february 2020 what we were headed to. this mayor steered us through one of the hardest times in the city history and did it with toughness and resilience, but importance with hope and grace and now we get to just celebrate joy here today so let's give it up for our mayor. [applause] the real reason we are hp celebrating golden gate park birthday, but this is get out of the vote ralee. we are in the middle of election, and i can legally from this microphone plug the election and tell you to vote not just once or twice but every day between now and april 8. golden gate park is up for the title of

the nation's best city park in usa today reader choice poll. anyone can vote, once per day. i do it every day, until polls close monday april 8 at 9 a.m. california time. the top 10 winning parks will be announced wednesday april 17. i'll let you in a secret, we are currently number one! but we dont want to let up, so what's everybody going to do today? what are you going to tomorrow? >> vote! >> what are you doing the day after? >> vote! >> there we go. alright. our next speaker, scott beck is the head of sf travel and scott comes to san francisco with so much joy and so much excitement, and he and i had the chance to chat and totally understands how important this park is to getting people to come to san

francisco, spend money in san francisco and enjoy san francisco. we do not have a bigger champion then sf travel, stow so it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the microphone sir to say a few words. [applause] >> wow. thank you for the warm welcome. as a new san franciscans i feel this is special opportunity. my association with the park began as a visitor. i used to chase my wife through the park on a bike when she ran several marathons. my daughters would visit the institutions. it was always on the-i'm excited to have it be part what i call home now. the park is also living example of san francisco creativity, ingenuity and ongoing evolution as phil noted. it took imagination, invasion to transform sands into greenery, to turn the land into oasis for all to

enjoy. and as the mayor noted, it takes dedication and ongoing work to keep the park shining and more accessible then 154 years ago. what other city contains a [indiscernible] arts and cultural institutions, wind mills, lakes gardens music concourse and so much more? this remains a must see for visitors who come to enjoy the beauty and magic of course alongside all of us san franciscans. as phil noted we are rooting for the outcome of usa today best park. i will ask you to vote. whatever the outcome though, this park is the best city park and magnet for the visitors that we bring to this community every day. attractions and places like golden gate park make san francisco a incredible destination and draw millions visitors each year to this community. and we at san francisco travel will continue to share the park heritage and stories for years to come. we look forward celebrating

many more golden gate park milestones and birthdays. congratulations and happy birthday. [applause] >> alright. we are getting down to the big happy birthday. very special acknowledgments. speaking of birthday, scott sampson and lee can you stand up for a second? it isn't just golden gate park birthday today it is academy science. it is true it celebrating the 171? it is older then this park and been in this park for 99 years i believe, is that correct? scott and lee, thank you for this park is great, because of your institution and we like to thank your institution is great because of this park. happy birthday academy. [applause] and also want to recognize our amazing rec and park commission, our

president kat anderson is here. our vice president joe. commissioner louie is here. we are also joined by a handful of really wonderful partners that make it work, rodney fong, head of chamber of commerce is here. stephanie linder, the head of the garden at golden gate park, we are in your front yard stephanie, thank you very much. you heard them back here hooting and hallering when the mayor talked about roller skating, david. skate and place. and then from illuminate who works tirelessly to light this place up and create joy and place-making, my friend ben davis. and i know i'm forgetting somebody and i'm losing my notes, but i most importantly-oh our friend from another planet. there is special bit of news. we have outside land coming

first week of august. already eager beaver tickets are sold out? that is because the show is hot hot hot. and thank you very much for assigning two very important members of your organization to join us for our birthday today. give it up for ranger dave and ranger roof. [applause] and as the mayor alluded, the most important round of thanks are for the hardworking men and women who take care of the part for 150 years with sweat, love and skill, this park is amazing because of them, to the rec and park staff. [applause] alright. so, now is the time for happy birthday and to grace us with a ocpelo

version of happy birthday, from very own young people teen musical theater company, jet. jet where are you? are you ready for this? alright. let her rip. >> just going to adjust the microphone really quick. alright. happy 154th anniversary. i'm going to be singing happy birthday for golden gate park now. [singing] happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday, happy

birthday, happy birthday to you. [applause] >> wow! alright. thank you jet so much. here to the next 154 years of joy. happy birthday golden gate park, let's eat some cake.

>> good morning everyone. welcome. i'm katie lamont and with me isroxany huey and together we are leading tndc as interim co ceo.

so pleased to have you with us this beautiful day to celebrate the reopening of ambassador and ritz hotel. exactly! this day has been a long time coming, and it is so wonderful to share with all you who help make it happen. as many know, tndc experienced a tragic loss with the sudden passing of our ceo. it is meaningful our first ribbon cutting without him is on the pavilion of this historic building. the bricks of the ambassador have witnessed pain, suffering and loss and they have also seen care, compassion, restoration and joy. we hold an amazing tenant talent show every summer where you all are standing and it is one of my favorite things about tndc. to preserve the life of the ambassador and ritz as supportive and

mindful homes where people live and develop community with their neighbors and with the people that work here, this is part of mor ilo vision endureing vision providing stable homes for all members of our community. i like to read a few words spoken by morilo about the ambassador and follow with a moment of silence in his remembrance. he said, the ambassador holds a rich and cherished history in the heart of san francisco. during the 1980 and 90 served as a sanctuary for newerous aids patients extending compassion and support to those without means to care for themselves or connect with support networks. we take great pride in continuing endureing legacy by preserving as affordable housing for our commune ity. let's take a moment.

[moment of silence] thank you. it is now my pleasure to get this ribbon cutting started by inviting district 5 supervisor dean preston to say a few words. [applause] >> thank you katie and roxanne and thank you all for being here and i want to first just start by acknowledging what a difficult time this is for the tndc team with the passing of morilo and thank you all for pushing forward and honoring his legacy of which this reopening of the ambassador and the ritz is a part. i also want to say, i am really

thrilled that katie and roxanne are at the helm, two incredible leaders and we are looking forward to continuing to partner with them and tndc. this is very exciting. to be here at this opening, i have the honor and privilege of representing the tenderloin in city hall. i wish i could take credit for all this, but there was this thing called redistricting in 2022, so the plans here were actually underway before i was even representing the district, so i feel i'm cheating coming in at the ribbon cutting and celebrating work that definitely pre-dated me here in the district, but i got my start as a housing lawyer in the tenderloin. have been in and out of pretty much every sro and as someone who represented tenants in sro's,

mostly in the privately owned ones when they were not up to code and tenants needed repairs, i can tell you the huge difference between some of the poorly maintained dilapidated old sro's here in the tenderloin and buildings like this, that actually get the care, the renovation and the supportive services to make these units real homes, safe, decent habitable and supportive homes in the tenderloin. our sro's here in the tenderloin are a huge part of why this community in the tenderloin continues to be a place and one of the few places in san francisco where low income people can afford to live, and it is really exciting to see this kind of attention and love and funding poured into making sure

these homes will remain low income housing for years to come thanks to the hard work of tndc with support from the city and i want to thank and acknowledge dan adams and mayor office of housing who are here and also other partners, including u.s. a bank and others who you will hear from, but looking behind me at the ambassador, i think one thing i'm struck by is i have never seen this kind of rehab. the combination of old and new here, i think it is fantastic. and looking at the exposed brick and the historic building maintained in this way, but updated so that folks who need affordable housing have top notch affordable housing in our district. we are proud to be a part that and looking forward to supporting not just the reopening here at the ambarder and

the ritz but expanding even in touch budget times to make sure we support the renovation and expansion of our sro housing stock here in the tenderloin so thank you for being here today. thank you again katie and roxanne and i don't know if i'm turning the mic back to you or whether turning it over to our next speaker. am i turning it over to the next speaker. alright. i'm pleased to welcome lisa gutierrez from u.s. bank. thank you so much. please give her a warm welcome. [applause] >> thank you. i want to start by sending deepest condolences to tndc on the loss of your fearless leader morilo but can't think a better way to celebrate his honor with affordable housing with the beautiful day and beautiful grand open. i'm lisa gutierrez with u.s. bank and thrilled to be part of today's event for the ambassador hotel

project we provided nearly $70 million in construction lending and nearly $67 million in tax credit equity. at a time when other financial partners hesitateed to move forward with the investment due to the complexities, u.s. bank leaned in and that seems to be part of our natural course and i'm proud of our team. some who could not be here today, so not nearly going to take all the credit it took to close this transaction. it was a real labor of love between the tndc, mayor office of housing and u.s. bank. we specialines complex development like this other 30 years. understanding the relocation plan of the vulnerable resident population to align with many public funding sources and rental subsidies all while managing the building rehab needs of this beautiful historic building. tndc and impact finance worked

together nearly providing $120 million in finance and $67 million in equity and regionally in san francisco metropolitan area impact finance provided $1.36 billion in construction lending and $1.40 billion in equity. since 2005, the u.s. bank foundation donated approximately $265 thousand to tndc. in fact, we look forward to support the 43 anniversary this may and we hope we see all you there. we believe everyone deserves a place to call home and in collaboration with many of you, we are truly making a difference in this community and across the state. our efforts care and creativity going forward will be critical as we continue to make affordable housing in our communities a prioorty. congratulations to all involved

in bringing this transformational development and get the well deserved refresh for the residents who call the ambassador hotel home. thank you so much. [applause] >> good morning everyone. thank you for coming out today to celebrate the regrant opening of the historic ambassador and ritz hotel. project manager with housing development team. i had the privilege to work on both projects during my tenure at tndc working on these complicated hybrid and scattered site projects really helped me understand and appreciate the hard work that goes into providing affordable housing.

i still remember the first time i attended a walk at the ritz. mind you, i never worked in construction before. the team handed me a roll of blue tape and said put a piece of tape where you see imperfections. i was so excited because i might not know construction very well, but very good spotting mistakes. in that moment, i knew being a project manager was for me. there were many people i want to give thanks to. the design team, the partners architects, construction managers, joe blanco and chris rivera, historic architect, tndc property management and countless consultants on the project. it took so many smart creative people to bring these rehabs to fruition. i like to thank the construction team who from day one were ready to help problem solve the uniquely

difficult financing and construction issues at these buildings. fantastic partners on a extremely difficult rehab. and now that i have been at tndc a few years i recognize how special it was to have a all woman project management and construction team on the ritz. thanks to their hard work, the ritz hotel has expanded community room, totally rehab common spaces and new windows. the team on the ambassador was especially patient with us as we work through so many potential ways to seismically strengthen the building. i like to thank jonathan, scott and the team for the incredible team work. you have a creative solution for every construction challenge we had. the enormous structure is part of the seismic upgrade work and don't know how they fit all the steel in the building. finally, i like to thank chris comings,

emily and alberta for housing development for leadership on the project and for being amazing mentors. thank you spending hours to explain the intricacy of the financing structure of the ambassadors and the ritz to me and others. i can tell you that there is nothing more fulfilling having tenant move back in and seeing how much they appreciate the new spaces. and that's it. next we have kevin, tndc overdose prevention outreach coordinator. thank you. [applause] >> thank you hang. good morning everyone. my name is kevin lu, a member of community organizing team as our overdose prevention outreach coordinator. you may wonder what that means. a important aspect of my work is meeting with residents in the sro's to inform on the challenges associated with preventing overdose in san

francisco as well as facilitate discussion around folks experiences and their overall sort of understanding of drug overdoses and what that looks like as far as solutions that they can come up with to this problem. that includes meeting with residents in this very building and we also outreach to folks in the surrounding community as well as the residents in the buildings. we partnered with department of public health to kick-start a project to install boxes that hold narcan on each floor of our three sro buildings including here at the ambassador hotel. with the help of the residents i meet with, i hope to collect survey and interview responses to understand how to better support and resource residents to reverse and prevent overdoses. what inspires me to do this work is sth legacy of hank wilson who operating the ambassador as de facto hospice

at the height of the aids epidemic. the sick were welcomed here. extraordinary care givers doctors nurses family members and volunteers and these providers learned the culture of the folks that stayed here and spoke to them as partners in care. full of compassion. the hotel was about caregivers finding way to reduce suffering and health risk due to drug use and hiv. community base harm reduction was the cornerstone. the efforts helped establish vaeft for residents and move the city of san francisco to establish needle exchange programs. as the overdose prevention coordinator, building community is key if we solve the substance use challenges in

the tenderloin and owe a lot to healthcare and public heth cares in the city. tndc is committed to bolstering the efforts. building community we can empower and educate folks to cocreate solutions that are grounded in the lived experiences and collective wisdom. i truly believe that when we amplify community voices, we can build the long-term systems we need to support those and address addiction in the city, so thank you very much and next up we have bob ostertech. [applause] >> thank you. i'm going to talk a little bit about the history here. i made a documentary movie about the early years of the ambassador in the 1970's and hank wilson, the force of nature behind it all. the story actually begins before aids in 1970's when san francisco

was just becoming the gay mecca and dozens of people were arriving at the grayhound station every day. many of them very young, teenagers, gay boys, transjnder people arriving by the dozens every day with no money and no where to go. a former kindergarten teacher named hank wilson decided he would make a place for them to go and answered a classified ad in the newspaper that says the ambassador was looking for a manager. he became the manager at that point. the building did not look like this when hank took it over most of the rooms didn't have doors, everything was completely trashed. hank furnished the building with donated furniture he found here

and there and created a space very very different then what we have now. there were no banks supporting the ambassador at this time. in fact, there were no non profits supporting the ambassador at this time. this was all done out of pocket and trying to make it work. check day was quite the thing at the ambassador. hank would go to the bank empty the bank account and cash into his socks and then walk back to the ambassador and cash everyone's checks. somehow made the thing work financially without any support from anyone. it was very important to hank that he didn't-he wasn't constrained by any organization, because he wanted to make

things work. he wanted-if something didn't work, he wanted to try a new thing and new thing and didn't want to ask for permission from anybody, and that's how he made it work and then aids arrived and the early days of aids are hard to explain to people who didn't live through it. there was a level of stigmatization that is hard to imagine, but all the other hotels in the tenderloin would not allow a person known to have hiv to enter the hotel, and so hank opened the doors and this became an unfunded, seat of the pants, diy hospice for indugent people dying of aids. many hundreds of people died of aids in

this building. one day five people in one day died in this building. they had memorials for them in the lobby. this was the time when it was difficult to even get a ambulance to come to the hotel. just making it work, hank was basically inventing harm reduction before we even had the term, harm reduction. he did it all out of the seat of his pants. he lived in a one room roach infested apartment. he didn't own a bed. he was very curious person, hank wilson. slept on the floor, lived on nothing and for 20 years he did this.

so, i'm very glad to be able to share that story. it is story that san francisco can be proud of. very unique story that i think shows the heart of this city. if there was anybody i have ever known who did not want to be recognized for anything it was hank wilson. very very big guy with a very very small ego. the running joke about my movie is he wouldn't have wanted the movie to be made about him. i walked in the lub lobby and shaw a beautiful mural painted by this wonderful artists and i think maybe hank would have been okay with people coming into the hotel and

seeing his smiling face welcoming them into the hotel. thank you. [applause] >> i'm now pleased to introduce our mayor, london breed. [applause] >> first of all, let's give brandon another round of applause! [applause] many have tried and have failed to do whitney houston justice and he definitely is one who has succeeded. it is so great to be here with each and every one of you and i just want to start by expressing my condolences to the tndc staff, morilo was such an amazing person and full of life and excitement for housing justice and i know it's a big loss to the

tndc community and we appreciate the fact that so many of you are still rolling up your sleeves and continuing the important work that he cared so deeply about. today is a perfect example that. both the ambassador and the ritz, not the ritz carlton, i know somebody probably used that joke. the fact is, we have a important responsibility here in san francisco to not just build new housing and be as aggressive as we can to remove the barriers on new housing construction, but we also have a responsibility for preservation, because we want to insure that no matter what happens, whether there is a earthquake or anything else, we are able to protect our existing housing stock, and by making the kinds of investments we are making today that provided an opportunity to do

significant rehabilitation on over 200 units, which includes as you know, the ambassador as well as the ritz, as a way to protect and support our most vulnerable residents, those with challenging disabilities and making units accessible. it was so critical that we did this work for preservation purposes, so we are grateful to be here to celebrate the milestone as a huge improvement not just for what we did and what we made happen, but for the lives of the people that this will impact. the people who will live here and will be able to enjoy this beautiful courtyard and enjoy their units and the people that they live with. it is truly wonderful to be here. it is such an incredible blessing that these individuals will have a chance at a new start at life, but also

for those who were moved temporarily and moved back, a new beginning with a new place with new opportunity and hope for a better day. so, ypt to thank you for the work they do for affordable housing for so many in our various communities. many people want us to do the job of helping people transition into housing and permanently supportive housing, but organizations like tndc do the work and in fact, since 2018 when i first became mayor, we increased our permanent supportive housing stock where we provided additional support for those who need additional help, we increased that by over 50 percent and that takes partners, that takes resources, that takes investment and that takes the opportunity for us to work and support the incredible things we know we need to do to get the job done, so

it is really great to be here to celebrate such a milestone, so thank you all so much for your work, your advocacy, and making it possible for people to have a safe affordable place to call home. thank you. [applause] >> do a quick photo op and then a closing. >> thank you mayor. appreciate your comments today. this past sunday was

international transgender day of visibility, which is a good reason to remind us that where we stand right now is only steps away from the riot at compton's cafeteria, which was a turning point for lgbtq plus activism. this building and this district have always been welcoming for the most marginalized people of the city and tndc is a part that. as a transwoman, i'm proud to be here now with katie and all the other tndc staff that are with us today who have the great responsibility to take care of this building and to take care of the residents of the ambassador hotel. i like to thank today's guest speakers, the residents of the ambassador hotel and all community leaders who made this

day possible and celebrated with us. i invite you to make the way to the pavilion. in the pavilion you will see a mini-art gallery features images of residents of the ambassador hotel provide pd by documentary photography darcie padilla who spent time in this building between 1992 and 1996. finally, if you wish to take a tour of one of the units, go talk to one of our staff at the tndc table and they can help you with that. thank you again for your support of tndc. culture.

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the people that inhabitable them we're in north beach about supervisor peskin will give us a tour and introduce is to what think of i i his favorite district 5 e 3 is in the northwest surrounded by the san francisco bay the district is the boosting chinatown oar embarcadero financial district fisherman's wharf exhibit no. north beach telegraph hill and part of union square. >> all of san francisco districts are remarkable i'm honored and delighted to represent really whereas with an the most intact district got chinatown, north beach fisherman's wharf russian hill and knob hill and the northwest waterfront some of

the most wealthier and inning e impoverished people in san francisco obgyn siding it is ethically exists a bunch of tight-knit neighborhoods people know he each other by name a wonderful placed physically and socially to be all of the neighborhoods north beach and chinatown the i try to be out in the community as much as and i think, being a the cafe eating at the neighborhood lunch place people come up and talk to you, you never have time alone but really it is fun hi, i'm one the owners and is ceo of cafe trespassing in north beach many people refer to cafe trees as a the living room of north beach most of the clients are local and living up the hill

come and meet with each other just the way the united states been since 1956 opposed by the grandfather a big people person people had people coming since the day we opened. >> it is of is first place on the west that that exposito 6 years ago but anyone was doing that starbuck's exists and it created a really welcoming pot. it is truly a legacy business but more importantly it really at the take care of their community my father from it was formally italy a fisherman and that town very rich in culture and music was a big part of it guitars and sank and combart in the evening that tradition they brought this to the cafe so many characters

around here everything has incredible stories by famous folks last week the cafe that paul carr tennessee take care from the jefferson starship hung out the cafe are the famous poet lawrence william getty and jack herb man go hung out. >> they work worked at a play with the god fathers and photos he had his typewriter i wish i were here back there it there's a lot of moving parts the meeting spot rich in culture and artists and musicians epic people would talk with you and you'd

>> good morning.