get to do every day. i get to represent the conference of championships -- of champions. this will be an amazing opportunity for our student- athletes and there are wonderful world class athletes in so many sports. with this network we will be able to showcase those stories and those athletes and i am sure attract new fans to many sports that they will be exposed to for the first time as a coach. we will get to continue to recruit worldwide and those parents will save on some air fare and be able to see their children compete. it is a wonderful and exciting opportunity for all of us and we appreciate your hard work in making it happen. thank you. >> thank you. the first is we are honored to

show you a first piece of work that is coming from our pac 12 enterprises group. this is a piece that we will use as our promo piece to give you an idea of what our on-air look will be. ♪

[applause] lydia is the vice president of one of the television networks. that is the first effort from her group which is to people. she comes from a long history in the television business. she was at madison square garden's network. she was one of the original producers and programmers for

oxygen network. spent over 15 years at abc sports and was an olympic speedskater in the 1984 olympics in sarajevo. [applause] so the action will start here pretty hot and heavy as soon as all the ceremony is over. we have a lot to get done. our construction co. is one of the finest in the country. marvin and mark are here somewhere. larry and i will take credit if we're up and running. if not it is their fault. no pressure. the mayor is watching, too. what we thought we would do next is to give you an idea. we have some of the schematic over there for you to look at the building. what we thought we would do is have one of the lead designers for the architecture firm hlw

give you a three-d -- 3d tour. we will have ten more as we are developing the look and feel for the building. we want you to imagine what this space will look like in six or seven months. it will be quite a transformation. carlos from hlw will lead us through that door. -- that tour. carlos? [applause] >> good morning. a couple of things before we get started. we're excited to be working with pac 12 and we're working feverishly to capture the energy we saw in the video. there is no music to the video we will be showing so you'll have to do with my monotone voice for a while. if we could go to the portal view. we will walk you through the choice moments we've designed around the facility.

we will get back to the portal. typically i am the one that controls this. give me one second. ok. what we will do is take you through the initial look at the site. what we have here is the portal. we wanted to create something that when you walk through you would feel a sense of crushing -- crossing a threshold. this was the idea of connecting different spaces with the sources of flight. go back in the other direction. push down, the down arrow. there we go. what we wanted to do is play off

that idea of connecting spaces. the first thing you see as you enter the facility will be as to go through this portal, the pac 12 shield and it will have these strands of light coming through. these points of light. something we saw in that video is the lights pass through multiple services. we did not want to contain it to one wall. what you see is the idea of the lights going on multiple services, wrapping around the ceiling. -- multiple surfaces, wrapping around the ceiling. we wanted something that would play off the simple geometry so it would be clean and have a presence and we wanted to have some elements of the pac 12. we have created a detail that shows the details of the schools in the conference. within this lobby, it is a grand

lobby and a big space. we wanted to start to condense the space is more to our human scale. here you see off the reception desk there will be a seating area. we started to articulate the ceiling and the floor surface. to give you a sense of being within a space within a larger space. in that zone, we will have a live feed of what is being broadcast outside the facility. the idea of we do know why you to forget where you are one to come in. he will start to see what is happening behind the scenes. -- you will start to see what is happening behind the scenes. there is the idea of what -- having an interactive digital medium. what you see is a projector and the idea is visitors and employees will go to the projection and play with the interactive -- it interactively. there is a coffee bar off the lobby. it is that space that goes off to the side so people will be

able to go in. they feel as though they are not in the lobby. the idea again, it is a powerful idea. the language that is being set up as you saw in that video. the idea of flights being connected. space is being connected by these sources of light. -- the idea of lights being connected. we're also doing it in the ground. you see an l.e.d. source that will take you to the portal and the reception desk and the stairs that connect this space is at two levels. as you progress down the stair, we want to keep in mind where we are. it is a place where we are broadcasting sports. it is a fun space. it is a space that is not a sleek, modern office. some of the touches is there is a scoreboard. you see the scoreboard that pays

homage to the advance where we are broadcasting but it gives you an -- up-to-date scores of what is happening, what will be on tv, what is planning live in the studio. -- playing live in the studio. as we wrap down the staircase, this is something that is in the west coast, so we wanted to go straight through. a lot of the inspiration is based on the great outdoors. what you see here is black lines, representative of cable, steel rods that come down. that idea out of walking down next to a waterfall is something we wanted to mimic. as you walk down the staircase, there's the sharing of the lights, the material that you can rub your hands next year. on the right side, you will see our interpretation of what it would feel like to walk next to a waterfall. you have a reconstituted would wall.

if you -- you are not going to get a splinter. it will be textured enough so that you will want to rub your hands against the wall. it is more of an experience. and the last thing we will show on this mini tour is the space we are extremely excited about. we have created another portal within the space that is off the lobby. it gives you a view into the studio. we're in the lobby, you get a direct view of the tv. as you walk through, you see this from a different point of view. that is a short synopsis. we're still working on it. it gives you a pretty good sense, a flavor of what the facility will be. [applause] >> ok, so the construction guys said where are one hour late on the construction schedule.

-- we are one hour late on the construction schedule. it is time to go to work. they put this wall of -- up for us.

>> thank you for comment. i am with the office of economic and workforce development, but i am representing quite a broad swath of the city and redevelopment staff who have spent rallying cry around this

project. and i am here with a member of community folks who have been absolutely instrumental in putting this together. i wanted to start by introducing mayor ed lee to speak a few words on this exciting day in bayview, which has honestly left of me breathless when i walked in. [applause] >> everybody, welcome to our bayview. welcome to third and oakdale. we are proud to be here today. a lot of good things happening. we want to announce yet again a collaborative effort that has been going on for some time. but it begins with people who have dreams and we have one of those people here who have been working in the neighborhood, building a community garden, and decided that perhaps it was time to be less and nomadic about his skill and to establish himself

in a neighborhood that i know well not only welcome hands in, but there are employment opportunities here as well. certainly, there is healthy and very vibrant food menus that will be displayed at a radio africa and kitchen right here. i want to begin by it and looking a lot of the entities that have been around to this together. i know our office of housing has worked in collaboration with the redevelopment agency. tiffany is here. the redevelopment agency put in a lot of good work to get the tax increment dollars involved in this site. the work with the loan program with the mayor's office of housing. they got together with the housing developer and coordination that owns the house and around this area and packaged its together what some small loans from our office of economic development, and collaborating about his dream

and putting the financial package together. we all collaborated, and we have not ever, ever had a feeling of giving up in anyway to any part of their street. so you know that i was out here a couple months ago with a supervisor at malia cohen, who is here today. thank you for welcoming us to your district. malia and i have been focused on its third street continuously. we're not going to give up. there's no reason to give up. there is investment in people to be had here. wonderful people who live here want mendell plaza to be more successful, the bayview opera house. we open up a couple other storefronts along third street. we're going to continue doing that with the personal investments that people are making on housing. i want to continue thanking

the former commissioners of our redevelopment agency. leroy king is here today. along with commissioner dar. thank you. [applause] i want to thank the bayview merchants association. thank you for constantly working with us here and making sure we do the right thing and communicate with all the people and not let go. i want to thank our police department. the captain is here. he is working with everybody thank you for being here. [applause] askinder is very worldly. he knows what is happening in our city and in this neighborhood. he is investing in an neighborhood he knows very well and investing in people. that is what makes a great menu, if i can put that connection

together. a menu that will be reflective of the health of this neighborhood. it will get us involved. it will get the contractors involved. some are down here working in the bayview, along with the contractors and vendors throughout this corridor. he is working with mohammed nuru who is here as well with dpw. he is working with our city administrator noami kelly, who is also here. we're all here in collaboration to make sure that you know city hall is going to continue putting resources in. we are reinstating the revolving loan fund, putting more money into it. we will have more of that decision making with the budget committee, the board of supervisors coming in the next week. then we will be walking through teraval this afternoon, touching

all the aspects of it, in every district. you have supervisors like malia cohen who are no longer worried. they know we are working together. what they're worried about are the people's negative attitudes, which should not creep in. we are confident with the merchants in the city. we are going to continue discounthis positive outlook ane will continue to do it with neighborhoods, to make sure there is job creation and economic opportunity for everybody. thank you for being with us today. i look forward to an intriguing menu here starting with eskender. thank you for your leadership here. [applause] >> he cannot talk get. he is at the very end.

[laughter] i just want to thank -- then davis from the san francisco housing corporation. she helped to get this bill. i also wanted to introduce supervisor cohen to state a few words. we are all one family and we were together but i also wanted to thank every development staff, especially andrea baker for helping to manage this project. [applause] supervisor cohen? >> thank you, mr. mayor, for once again and leaving me with nothing left to say. it is good to see our city partners and a special thank you to the agency formally known as the redevelopment agency. thank you for your guidance in getting us here, to this ribbon- cutting ceremony. it is an exciting time. we are starting to go through a

rebirth, as we focus on how we are reprogramming mandel plaza, continuing infrastructure programs as well as structural improvements to the bayview opera house. i am putting everyone in their area on notice. this will be the spot. the third street merchants corridor is coming back and it will be bigger and better than ever. this bill be the new spot for international cuisine. we have a peruvian restaurant down the street. here we have eskender. this is mediterranean, modern african, very bayview. we have some fantastic asian cuisine along the corridor, along with fantastic taco places. this place captures exactly what san francisco is looking for,

bringing people and communities together over a wonderful meal. i want to thank the city family for being here, the friends and neighbors, those who said that it could not be done, those that said it would not be done. hero -- here we are celebrating the ribbon-cutting of a fantastic restaurant that will be opening up. i look forward to being a faithful patron. al norman, thank you for your leadership in the bayview merchants association. [applause] and if we have any aspiring business owners in the house today, there will be funds available for those people that have a burgeoning of entrepreneurial spirit. i am very excited to be here and welcome you all here to this fantastic opening.

[applause] >> we have what we call the third street corridor program here. it is a collaboration with the baby business resource center. is sharing here? it is a collaboration with them and redevelopment and a couple of city offices. over the last few years, we have been able to do improvements on 25 businesses on third street, which is no small feat. [applause] technically, this is part of the program. i just wanted to report from our staff, limon was standing room only on saturday night. [applause] comintern in over now to tiffany for a couple of words from the four redevelopment agency.

[applause] >> thank you. it is a pleasure to be standing here in this building. there are affordable homes here. this is a manifestation of the ongoing investments that mayor lee and others have spoken about, in terms of the physical and economic investment in the bayview. too many people are here to thank but this was truly a covered a partnership, both at the state level, to build these homes, from community development, redevelopment funds, to stimulus funds, the mayor's office of housing, up front equity. we are truly pleased to be able to continue to invest in ongoing vibrancy of this third street corridor. and number of months ago, you saw the city's investment.

we are investing in food for soul here through eskender's vision. i am pleased to be here today and i welcome you all. thank you very much. [applause] >> a couple of words from al norman of the baby merchants association. >> you want to welcome everyone here for this wonderful opening. keep your suits pressed because we plan to have many more openings like this in the bayview. we have a tenfold job here in the bayview. we want you to join us because we have big plans in collaboration with our mayor, supervisors, but the other merchants in other districts here to make this one of the

safest neighborhoods in san francisco. we want you to feel that you can come down and shop and eat and have a good time, as if you were going on union street. our job is to make sure that you are safe, having fun when you come to visit us, and make you want to come back and bring people with you. thank you so much. [applause] >> first of all, i want to thank you, mayor lee, andrea baker, for all of your hard work. [applause] from the bottom of my heart, i am very excited to move to this neighborhood. also, this is a long-term dedication. it may not happen over a year. it will be a solid, simmering good movement that will change

the way we eat around here and the way we live. for example, i do not know if you saw the garden over there. we are growing some vegetables and grains. some of did you will probably be eating today. i am so excited. i have something in the oven, so i cannot speak too long. i am so happy. i want to thank all of you, including the neighborhood. enjoy. there is plenty of food. thank you again. [applause] >> i believe there is a special table for the mayor and naomi kelly, tiffany, a couple of other department heads. thank you all for coming. we really appreciate it. congratulations, eskender.