association of businesses, to invest in the sea wall lot, and to see people like kathy simon and others on the team to just this weekend, we opened up delors park, a children's playground to hundreds of kids. and now to visualize how the kids from at&t park and the kids from delores park will be coming down here in just a few short years, enjoying these great 8 acres of open space on to the waterfront, one of the most beautiful waterfront you have ever seen in your life. that is going to be fulfilling a promise of what the port has been talking about for many years, investing in our land here to some of the most beautiful views the city has to offer. 1.7 million square feet of office space in retail space to be inviting even more companies, whether they are biotech or technology companies, to have their employees working here, again, in such a beautiful surroundings. such beautiful surroundings like, i think david whispered

coming in know, we should make the weather today a condition of the eir. right? that is going to be a permanent part of the eir, larry. so get ready. it will just be in the plan, right there, one phrase. [laughter] and then it to see the 125,000 square feet of retail space. larry is absolutely right. they have been such a leader at inviting local businesses to participate in this very successful stadium. we will do the same thing with sf made and organizations helping me push local manufacturing, local restaurants, local food, local hiring, of course. but it is the creative finance and innovation of our residents and the people who have made a stake in the city and want to be part of the success. i have every faith that we will work as a teen, larry. with the port, with the commission leadership, with the

president, with our economic committee of people and staff, and work with the board of supervisors and the planning department, public works, the building departments to get through this and not to add the traditionally torturous process, but to welcome in something that i think everyone from day one is saying great, great concept. not only that, i think to have it backed up by very successful, not just baseball franchise, the giants signaled its u.s. years ago, they are more than just a successful baseball team ownership. they want to be a successful business partner with the city. a successful corporate citizen with the city. a successful philanthropists, as they have shown time and time again. just yesterday with the community giants fund and the giants a junior baseball, they are a part of our lives, part of what we think about in san francisco when i get to say to

other mayors across the country, i am from san francisco, home of the giants, not just the baseball team. they are now part of a whole outlook of what we see as investor confidence who struggle to find their partners in the private sector to build them. as you look through this and as you get as excited as i am and see the exciting spaces that are being created, you will be reminded that historic pier, pier 48 is about to be refurbished again, honoring for years with the port has challenged many people to do in the events that have been hosted here. aid has helped us revitalize our port property and finding more people to use it. as we have done with places like port mason, a complement to our convention and tourist business that is still our number one business in the city and offering even more exciting space is to keep that happen.

and getting more tense, short- term and long-term to occupy that, and positive experiences throughout the whole thing. this is a fulfillment of several layers. from dianne feinstein when she first began here in san mission that was worth the investment. true. frank jordan, art agnos, willie brown, gavin newsom. all of us saying this is all worth it. we just have to make sure that the teams here know they have got the backing of the city to really perform this, and so the investors need to know that we are an investment-friendly town. we want to build on our success. we want to get more people the jobs they deserve here, and this will be a huge job creator. giants and associates, thank you very much for presenting this to us. this really excites us, and i know everybody has their hopes up for this to be excess full wall. we will all be there for the great team. thank you very much. [applause]

>> thank you, mr. mayor. i will add to that as a and not, as the mayor said, several layers, several administrations have been part of the ballpark process and part of the development of mission bay. but no one administration has been more focused on jobs and economic development than merely's administration, and we're very grateful to you for that. -- ben mayor lee's administration, and we're very grateful to you for that. another consistent supporter of this project in all we are doing to try to develop the city in responsible way has been the president and the board of supervisors and our good friend, president david chiu. david? [applause] >> thank you, larry. so i did have a half-hour speech prepared so we could delay getting back to city hall, but i will cut that short. i did joke to the mayor that we should make the weather into our

environmental impact reports. i want to say that that is a joke, but i do think the weather today -- the wind that is going to walk down the -- knock down the sails of the america's cup boats and those people in the ballpark, i do not think we can take it for granted. we are blessed to live in when the most beautiful natural at the theaters in the world. this is why i am so happy to be a part of this amazing announcement. this announcement, in part, is about how we create and build another field of dreams. how is it that we take an empty parking lot and turn it into part of a 21st century waterfront? when some of the giants' organization approached me last year, and i want to think jack and some of your colleagues for presenting this vision to me, i was frankly blown away. the vision of housing some of amazing retail, of one of a kind tourist and residential and

san francisco experiences i think really is and parallel. and this is why i am so proud to be part of the city team that we will be working closely with the giants to move this forward. we have had a lot of conversations in recent months about what we should do about our waterfronts. and we know that we have amazing a opportunities and a handful of challenges. but i think, together, as we always do, we will work as a team. i look forward to working with my colleague jane kim from district 6 and all of my colleagues. i know i look forward to working as a representative from san francisco to bcdc. the giants have recently gone through spring training and i know that where this project is, they have not been vetted it. they have done a lot of work to make sure we thought it through. but we have a lot of work to do. i look forward to working with our mayor, working with city staff, and working with all of our players to turn this field of dreams into reality and

hopefully to hit a real home run with it. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, president david chiu. they're not out on the field yet. you did not take this into the first inning. [laughter] ok, one of the great things about san francisco is we have a real focus on the neighborhoods and the districts, and we have representatives who are elected by districts and are focused on their constituents. i am proud to say that we have a wonderful district supervisor in the district where we play ball and where we look to be constructing soon, and that is supervisor jane kim. supervisor kim? [applause] >> i have the honor of representing this amazing district, district 6, which the giants consider their home base. it is really great to have a

business and a company and an organization here in the city that loves the city as much as we do and that contributes a lot. i want to thank the giants, who support a lot of our neighborhood organizations and communities. it was great to see you at st. anthony's a month ago as we celebrate the groundbreaking of what will soon be affordable housing for seniors and a great new meals kitchen for our community. it is important to have partners like this that care and are passionate about our city. i have the honor of representing one of the older neighborhoods in san francisco, but it also happens to be our emerging neighborhoods, the south of market and the mission bay. it is a lot of fun to be the supervisor of this district, because we have a lot to work with. we're kind of drawing the neighborhoods. one of the priorities of this district is developing a complete neighborhoods, neighborhoods that bring in infrastructure, whether it is street skating that encourages pedestrians and bikers and our public transit, that build open

space. that is important to this neighborhood right here. and of course contributing to a mixed income housing. the affordable housing fund. we're actually constructing affordable housing. that is the type of development we look for here in the city. i am excited to work with the giants. i know their dedicated and committed to the city. they want to bring what our neighborhoods and communities with like to see. this is a tremendous amount of space sitting behind us with a ton of potential to create jobs and make your neighborhood safer and more complete. i look forward to working with our mayor, to our board of supervisors, and of course our giants to hopefully bring this development home here. thank you so much for having me here. i also look forward to working with our incredible port and their commission. they have a ton of exciting developments happening here. i think that ties all of this in together. thank you. [applause]

>> thank you, supervisor kim. as she was speaking, i was reminded of a conversation i had recently with an executive at a silicon valley-based firm. i will not mention the name, but it is a company that is one of the transformational companies in our world today. this individual said coming no, i understand we are in the south bay and that is where our headquarters is, but i have to give you a statistic. 48% of our workers actually live in the city and county of san francisco, and the shuttle down. i have got to believe that a lot of them live in supervisor kim's district. and they love being part of the urban scape that is san francisco and enjoying the amenities. i think this project in many ways is dedicated to enhancing the urban scape of san francisco for so many people, whether the

work in san francisco are down in the peninsula. and the job creation that this project affords is a very, very powerful thing for all of us. we would not be able to function at this ballpark or with this project without the cooperation and the wonderful support and guidance of the port of san francisco, who is our landlord. and we have the president of the port commission here. i would like to introduce you to her now. the president of the san francisco port commission, doreen woo ho. [applause] >> thank you. i have been involved with the port commission almost a year. if i had any idea how exciting it was going to be with so many things going on on the waterfront, i have just come back with the executive director. we were in an international waterfront symposium, and our city certainly stood well in terms of all of the amazing

waterfront developments around the world. it reminded me that obviously we are more than just a working port here. this project epitomizes what is going on in terms of waterfront development. i think it is going to be a project that will be watched not only here in san francisco, for all the benefits you heard the mayor and larry and president david chiu in supervisor kim talk about what it will do for us every locally, but it will be a major international program, certainly one of the biggest the port has done. from the standpoint of how it ties in with the rest of the waterfront, we're blessed that we have 7.5 miles to develop. and with all the different opportunities in terms of open space and the maritime activities. this sounds to me like the most ambitious project that has been done, but it ties in with the objectives of the master plan at the port. we're very excited to be engaged with such great partners as the giants, and we look forward not

only in terms of this development but also in terms of how it can forge a new business model in terms of the partnership and the teamwork and the benefits of both of the port, the city, the community, as well as the giants will accrue from this project. we are excited to engage further in a dialogue. as everybody has said, there is a lot of work to be done. we are excited to see this launch, and we're ready to sit down and talk. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much, president ho. well, we have a pact that it is going to be sunny for every announcement and for every open here. we have to get it back. that is just a temporary cloud. it has been mentioned, we have been in active, dated a working relationship with the port of san francisco, and we're very fortunate to have leading

seaport staff the port director monique moyer -- a leading the board staff, the port director monique moyer. monday " like to say a few words. [applause] >> good morning. it is my great honor to be here, standing on the shoulders of not just the mayor and former administration, the president of the board and its former administrations, and obviously the long history of the port commission. we're almost on our 150th birthday. in 2013, we will mark 150 years of the port, which is a record, trust me. and here we are doing what we do best in san francisco, which is once again re-establishing ourselves, redirecting ourselves, every identifying ourselves, and figuring out how to do what other cities in the world are still trying to figure out what to do, which is to marry a working waterfront with

in neighborhood. i wanted to echo what everyone has said. most importantly what larry said of this is a gateway site. it is not a front door, not a back door, not a side door. it is a circle wayside, because it will continue to be that entry from the waterfront as we bring to people through on ferries and other modes of transportation, hopefully water taxis, as well as by land and fled. it will enhance not only the central waterfront, pull people from the ferry building, but it will continue our goal of moving to the southern waterfront, and it will continue to build on the private investments that have been made so generously by the giants and others so far and are soon to be made at pier 70. this site has everything to offer you. you heard what president david chiu's thoughts were. you heard from supervisor kim. on behalf of the port, we cannot be so proud to be working with such an amazing team and the giants as well as our

governmental team and our neighbors. we look forward to welcoming you back here very quickly and to see for yourself how once again we can make it to be refurbished waterfront in san francisco. i thank you for that, larry, and all of the giants for your dedication and investment on our behalf. [applause] >> thank you so much, monique. i think the best way to do this is there will probably be some questions. and the giants team, certainly the mayor, and supervisor david chiu, supervisor kim, president ho, and port director moyer will be available for questions. we will probably take as offline. we might be of the show you, especially with this graphic, some of the initial ideas of where some of the residential might go and where some of the office might go and the ideas

for the piers. if we have any questions along those lines, we will take them offline. we invite any of you, possession is nine tenths of the law. you're in the ballpark now. if you want to stay for the ball game, we invite you to stay and we will have accommodations for the 12:45 p.m. san francisco the giants a-oakland a's game. we look forward to communicating with you in the future about this project. thank you. ♪

>> thank you for all joining us tonight. i am the good government policy director here at spur but it is my distinct pleasure to welcome such an amazing panel tonight, as well as the mayor of our fine city. this is the innovation mayor, mayor ed lee. [applause] >> thank you, everyone. can everybody hear me? welcome. welcome to spur. i always enjoy being here. because every time i come here, some part of my brain gets woken up pet.

earlier i had a wonderful opportunity to exchange with our panel members about what they're doing and how they're doing it. there is one great theme. i think these panel members are here as part of their own entrepreneurial spirit. they own companies, but they love the city as well. they know the spirit of the city. it is one of innovation. one that invites people and their views enmeshes it up with old tradition to see if we can make an even better san francisco. my fellow collaborator, president david chiu, is here tonight. scott wiener. we have two other supervisors who may be coming later. supervisor jane kim and supervisor mar farrell, who might join us later. we're all part of the initial group of policy makers at city hall who want to hear ideas and views of this new economy, this collaborative consumption economy, a shared economy, one that we are very interested in because it has assets that have

already peaked our interest. about our -- piqued our interest. about our environment, about how to do less with more, how to make an expensive city more affordable to more people. how to utilize the strength of the city as a great tourist city that maybe not that affordable to too many people and how we can get more folks to come and experience the wonder of the city. and then hopefully they make their stake here. these panel members of decided to make their stake here. they risk reputation, may be small amounts of money, because of the had a lot of money, they may not have had to start this. but they have also, i think, done it for the right reasons. they want to experience this city in a very different way, but one that i think is in the tradition of san francisco and is reflective of mind, welcoming more people here to share in this economy.

and hopefully for the right reasons, we create more jobs, get more entrepreneurs involved in the success and richness of this city. i have often said this city can be the city for the 100%. that is, everybody can have a chance to fulfil their dreams and make sure they can have a stable economy for themselves and for their families. i think we're on the verge of discussing things that would invite other members of our city family, our department heads of that work in the tax section or in planning or in land use, to be involved with a discussion, an ongoing discussion that would potentially invite an open up our economy and modernize it even further. i think we're at a task where, quite frankly, a year ago, for example, david chiu and i do not know the outcome might be except that we were in fear that a company called twitter might leave our city and that thousands of jobs will leave us

behind. so we took a little risk and suggested that we might be able to revamp our tax code for the benefit of job creation. and little did we know a year later that that invitation has caused over 125 companies to locate themselves in our city, creating thousands of more jobs, creating an ad as mayor -- an atmosphere and environment that will welcome the new technology and innovation. to reinforce what we have been saying, and i think it is real. we are the innovation capital of the world. with your help and with your involvement. we would like to have the rest of the city catch up and be part of it as well. and we think we can have that conversation at city hall, but we will need your help. we will need you to represent the new industries as these companies are here today to keep the dialogue and that collaboration at a high level. it is the ongoing dialogue, just like the one we are leading

already about a new tax structure for this city that does not punish the inventiveness that we want to have in the city. so i would like to just open with that introduction. welcome all of you here. i think you are going to see and hear an exciting introduction of all these new companies in the discussions we have. but they are going to raise questions that we do not have the answers yet. but i do believe we have the spirit in this city to welcome solutions with your involvement. we will have the ability to do this online as well as in these forums, and i will be part of this ongoing discussion. because i want to see all of you interact with the city and make sure to is reflective of what you believe the city to be. an open society, one that is inviting to new ideas, and one that our of policy-makers along with the mayor can engage with you. thank you for being here. and thank you to spur again. [applause]

>> thank you, mr. mayor. i think we're going to hear from supervisors scott wiener. >> thank you. this turnout, i think, shows a significant this is to the future of the city. we were with a smaller group right before this. one thing that i stress and i will stress to you is that san francisco is a city that -- sort of, we haven't economy going on where we are in many ways to cut -- we have a dichotomy going on. in many ways, we are cutting edge technology and are really ahead of the curve. we attract a lot of people here, like you, in think our forward- thinking and want to try to do things in a different and more innovative way. we're also a really old school city. and change here is really challenging. for those of us at city hall,

and david chiu and i talked about this a lot, when we're trying to do things differently, you can get a lot of reflexive push back, whether you're talking about putting cars sharing on the streets or whether you're talking about changing the zoning to be able to create new types of housing to make the city a little bit more affordable and inclusive. you have those kinds of difficult conversations. so much of this is about really educating the city as a whole, from all generations, from all perspectives, that where we are going right now in san francisco, in a lot of ways in terms of our transportation system and housing policies, is not always very sustainable. and if we want is to be sustainable, if we want to remain a cutting edge and diverse city that draws all sorts of people here, we're going to have to change. we are going to have to consider new ways of doing things that

maybe a year or two ago we were not even comfortable thinking about. so there is a big education process that has to occur, and i know we're all going to work together to make sure that that happens. i know we can move in the right direction. i look forward to that work. thank you. [applause] >> in rounding out our trifecta, which underscores the importance of what we are talking about, is our very own board of supervisors president, david chiu. [applause] >> good evening. if you are like me, you did not come here tonight to hear from elected officials. i look forward to hearing from these innovators in a moment. i wanted to join my colleagues in ensuring all of you, our current generation of entrepreneurs, that we're looking forward to working with your hand-in-hand to figure out how we create san francisco not just as the capital of innovation that the capital of a sharing economy.

i say this as someone who, for nine years before i joined the board of supervisors, i actually started what was a web 1.0 company. what makes our city special is everyone of you have ideas that will not only change our city but will truly change our world. our mayor is responsible for managing the 50 + executive- branch departments that will be interfacing with many of the substantive policy areas that you and i. my colleague scott and i along with my nine other colleagues, we are responsible for legislating and figuring out how we, as a city, addax -- adapt to the new technologies are coming out with. changing the way we all live, as "time" magazine said recently. one thing we say is city hall, as those san francisco, often times so goes the rest of the country. and as goes the rest of the country, so goes the world. and i really believe we're starting sending very special today that is going to do that

for our entire planet. thank you very much for being here. looking forward to working with you. [applause] ♪ hi