francisco. so congratulations to the warriors i want to thank you. the entire warriors organizations. thank you to the team and to the coach. and in closings let there be no doubt san francisco is warriors ground. thank you >> thank you david as a broadcaster you're looking for someone to give you a reason for a great call. i never thought i'd be using words like unbelievable and this has been a normal game for me because this guy what he do so

on the basketball court he's an unbelievable shooter. we will give you a couple of of those highlights to show you the greatness of mr. occurring i didn't >> when i got my first pair i stepped down out and this air bubble right here make me spy in the back correspondent. and when i jumped i swear i got so high i touched the net momma i touched the net. it's the best day of my life. consumed - it consummate my

dark and places that i could hardly. i wanted to be that guy to touch the rim to be cool and i wanted what he had. i want to fly can you take part of the way. i can reach tell me what it takes (clapping) pits pretty remarkable. to watch a player like that day in and out. mayor lee see going to come back up with another proclamation. willie you have all people know

when we do good things for each other the luck and the receiving of gifts comes back. i want to make this short announcement but san francisco has been named the host of super bowl 50 clapping. (clapping) we'll have more announcements about that later. obviously this continues to be warriors ground. what a day, huh? how about that. you know, one the great things i had a you tend to get a chance to get to know folks i know that

the i know he's had a great relationship that the tenderloin school. and we're going to introduce one the young students he's coming up here with the mayor he's alex mac. (clapping) >> hello, i'm a fifth grader. i'm really excited to be here along with my classmates. in my school during our welcome ceremony has us to do our best

we would like to present curing with the player of the most. during the most he averaged 8.1 points per game. he's the first player to win the player of the month. congratulations steven. (clapping)

>> thank you and thank you tenderloin school. thank you. you know, as i had a chance to look around this wonderful beautiful crowd i see such diversity. i see our educators from our school district and parents who are praising their families i see our labor leaders who are building jobs and our recreational and park and the commissioners in from the port our police department they're all out here in this great celebration. well, you know what they say you give stefani inch and he might take the state a golden mile. just 25 years old he's made a

sports illustrated cover. for the first time a warrior made that cover for his skill and talent since 1980. and for those you have keeping stats in mind he's 6 feet 2 inches and into four seasons and he takes up to amasses all of us. where the warriors have gone and across the world he's going to be amazing dead on arrival to the whole world. not only does he be a role model on the court but off the court.

steve's participation and involvement as a natural spokesperson for thanks usa helps to insure that men and women who serve in our armed services have up to the present time for education. i am remind that the warriors have a whole history and culture of excellency thank you. thank you for being here (clapping) thank you now ever since we have had steve he's led the team to the biggest success.

now for the three-quarters in the single season and in hopes that his impressive skills on and off the court will continue to come. tights my honor to give him the key to the player. he's the number one in the hearts of everyone steve. the key to the city. (clapping)

>> this is truly an honor to be here in front of you from the front office of the owners to the coaching staff and mark jackson can't be understated how much of an impact he's had on our team and might have and all the teammates you didn't see the other players making plays and others making plays. the practices that we went through and making each other better from day one. you know, last fall right after

labor day the martha ford training camp and everyone showed up early commented to the task to what coach jackson with the vision of this happening. with the success we had this year it's only going to get better (clapping) >> we're excited about the process we have a great summer league team to prepare for next year. we have our sites set on bigger things go and the support you guys have shown us is amazing. i grew up in the nbc and i've

seen a lot of fan bases and this is the best fan base so far (clapping) so keep those yellow shirts crisis - as i represent the entire wires organization this is an amazing honor. and everyone that went into, you know, put this event on today thank you as well. this is a huge honor representing the warriors it's the best basketball team and we're preceding ready to go next year and thank you. i appreciate it

(clapping) >> steve. as we wrap this up i found out that steve is not the only one to set records i heard we have another player who set the record for frequent flier. no players come close to you guys you guys are absolutely the best. so that as we leave let's rock city hall with let's go warriors. ready 1, 2, 3 let's go warriors.

and we'll see you all back here next year >> great for see you all here, i am the director and it is a profound pleasure to welcome you all to this ground breaking this morning. we are thrilled that you could join us, this is a defining moment in our history and it is great to have you with us. and i have to say before i begin, that the first person to arrive this morning, for the ground breaking was one of our

trustees, brooks walker. and books arrival reminded me that 20 years ago, almost exactly, this was in another ground breaking on exactly this site. and we are here 20 years later and we are expanding upon that remarkable step that the museum took in 1995. we moved here to third street from the vaness location and from the city hall location. and we were immediately pioneers in this neighborhood. obviously the south of market neighborhood was not what it is today. and very quickly pioneers became anchors. and that is quickly became a gathering place for anyone interested in the visual arts and who was a residents of san francisco or lived in the bay area or came here. over the course of 18 years since 1995, it has grown, i can only say exponentially in term of our

everything has doubled and tripled in size. and our exhibitions reflect the diversity and range of this community and regularly travel around the world literally. so today, here we are in 2013, and we are on the cusp of another remarkable change, when our expansion is complete, it will begin become, not that it was not been, it will become fundamental as a component of the cultural life of san francisco. our building will more than double our current gallery space and we will offer many art filled and also free to the public spaces and galleries for art, many versatile spaces and a building that will feel open and integrated into the urban fabric into the south of market and south of mission neighborhood as it possibly can, and also offer dramatically expanding programs for cool children and i want to pause for a second on that

because this is an important point, earlier this month the board announced that we will create a $10 million endowment to create preadmission for anyone under of the age of 18 to come to the museum. and now if there is one question that i received, pretty much on a daily basis and a question that i received more than any other question that i am asked, is this, two years of construction, sf 1 was going to be closed at third street, where will sf moment go? how will the community continue to experience the contemptary art. we mean it seriously that it will be figuratively and literally on the go. if you have noticed on the paper the remarkable exhibition will be able to mount on the

field sculpture and just a few weeks we will be opening the first of many partnership exhibitions with the partnership exhibitions around the corner from sf moment. i dare say, i dare say that the period of time that we are entering dao into here, the next couple of years, to culminate will be the most exhilarating and exciting into the entire history of this museum. and i could not be more exciting about this and i think that the board and the staff and the community shares that great excitement. at the forefront of all of this work and we could not have asked for a better leader at this time is chunk shwabb the chair and i would like to pass it now to john. >> good afternoon, good morning, everybody. what an incredible pleasure for me to be see this modern art

building over here, we are going to surround that with a little bit of a veil and that will be a permanent structure right there. so we always want to take the new ideas in. don't we? and it is really a thrill to be here for this ground breaking, and it was a twinkle in our eyes a few years ago and i think to have this moment come and now we got to build something that is for sure. we can't leave this hall here or we would be embarrassed to say the least. it always seems to be and we all, i think, love living here in san francisco. in the bay area. and because, we always seem to be way ahead in so many ways and things whether it is business, art, or technology or progressive social movements for sure that originate in san

francisco. it is a great place to have leadership about where we are going as a civilization in the future, this museum in many ways expresss that and offer its to all of our members and our public. that stuff is always been at the forefront. i think of so many different movements. and ahead of its time. the new works that we have done. and new idea and different ways of looking and seeing things. that is what this whole institution is about, and we will be doubling that capability and so it will be more and more fun for families and kids and so forth to come here and to be a part of that. and really thrilled to have that happen. but i want to also thank the leadership of the museum. getting that twinkle in their eyes that something in 2009, and it just took a lot of

asking people to help out with this, but there was a certain person in my life, don fisher who we were very close, don and he sort of put the challenge up to me and if we could really do something fantastic for this city. we all sort of got together and i said, don? and in his final hours, i said don, you got the guy here who is going to make this challenge a reality. and that is really what we have got going on here and so thanks to don, you guys really made this challenge. [ applause ] and we have to say, also, the community itself, our council people, supervisors, our mayor, our chief of police, the chief of the fire department, just like the fire department now, there say brand new one just a couple of blocks over there and so he is really happy and the whole team is really happy. so he is with us today also,

but our trustees thank you for all of your participation and fantastic and i just can't thank enough of the people who have been here working hard with me, side by side, and i have another fellow that i would like to introduce, our mayor ed lee is a fantastic guy and what this city always needs to have, just a guy that is going to make things happen. not all of the fan fair and you just see how this whole city is sort of coming to life. it is going to be probably in 20 and whatever, 16 we, have museums coming and it is unbelievable. mayor ed lee. [ applause ] >> thank you, chuck, and i was just about to rec meant chuck that you and i and charlotte

schultz buy the shoe polish and in a couple of years put that on and pose as 18 years and we can look a little bit like supervisor kim and get in for free, how about that? >> this is an incredible chuck, thank you for that enter did yousing, and i will be very brief because what i really feel today and in this particular ground breaking is a lot of sweat, a lot of good, hard, work, from chuck, from the board of directors and from robert and randy fisher. i want to thank you for your wonderful leadership and you have to raise an incredible amount of money for this to happen and it was for a great cause and i go back to our first lunch in, chuck that we had where you explained a little bit about our history to me and i did for you and we both talked about the old friendships that we had and you expressed your friendship with don back and that this what ises partly in honor of that. well i want to also express the

city's official thank you to doris and don and fisher, collection and the fisher family for your wonderful contribution for our city. and it is with that recognition that we do this ground breaking, plus a big huge thanks for the new fire station as well. but, as i will look forward to speaking to the graduating class at lowell high school this afternoon, i am going to talk about this because it is part of what we do in san francisco. it is for our youth, but it is also future looking, and it is about what we all do for our great city and that is what i feel about the fisher family, that you have contributed to our city. and you know, culturally, based tourism is now at about 2 billion dollars of income for the city. and it employs almost 20,000

people and this is what our city does, it celebrates culture and that is what draws so many people to this, and now i think, supervisor kim was so proud of these institutions that are coming into our district and that she and i have joined in so many ground breakings and we celebrate this with a very serious recognition of a people that have done this for us. and so, on behalf of the city and county, and with all of our hearts and gratitude, i want to thank robert and randy, i want to thank, doris and don fisher, the whole fisher family for the great, great contributions to our city. this is a gift that will keep on giving, and with this announcement for the youth to come in for free when the 10 million dollar endowment, i love anonymous gifts. one of these days i will try to do that myself. but, this is incredible time for our city, but it is one that i think at this is

another example why we take the opportunity to celebrate and to thank the people who have led this effort to do so and to just have everyone appreciate life in san francisco is very special. and this is one of the reasons why. thank you very much. maus plause [ applause ] >> thank you, mayor lee, i would just like to second chuck's remarks earlier that the support that we received from the city, from the mayor on down, has been nothing short of extraordinary, i have to say that it is probably unprecedented in the history of san francisco that we have had, universal unanimous support from staoet and to all of our processes and everything that we asked for it has all happened and it is credit to you and your amazing team. >> you know, about three years ago, we formed chuck and i together formed a committee of our board and staff.

to search for an architect for this ex-sxantion what we were looking for was an architectural firm through the work and the attitude through the work through the resume of experience, would express the values that this museum holds and that we want to address going forward, values of openness and generosity and sharing and welcome and transparency. and we also want to have a great building and obviously that would show all of our collections off to the best possible advantage and great public spaces and we have a really exciting search and on the last day, of our last tour of duty, traveling around we were in oslow and we met with craig and his partner and at the end of that day, we knew and there was... we knew in no uncertain terms that this was the firm that we wanted to work with and i can only say that as

i welcome craig up to the podium the last three thought and it actually does, this is followed by a creative

phase, and the creative phase is really the fun part, and then there is the pass that will move along. somehow this is a case of construction. and we will deliver this child. happily, at the end of this, there is the miracle of birth, when the doors open and there is hopefully plenty of hugs and smiles when our guests enter the new sf moment and as of this great day, the building will mature slowly at first and will experience many challenges in its life alongside the days of joy and celebration >> while this metaphor was pretty good there is a difference that i would like to point out. unlike many marriages and births, the making of the

building is not a monogomous relationship, it is a poly amorous relationship because there is a great deal of partners in this effort and we know how sticky that can be. >> there are a number of partner to consider along the way and each of these has a wedding ring so to speak and i have the privilege of representing this group of lovers here at the podium and the architects often receive a great deal of attention and that is important but it is also tremendously large team that we represent, so i wanted to share with you rather quickly the names of our partners in this relationship and it is a wonderfully rich list representing groups from california and the united states and the interests abroad and here it goes in alphabetical order, we are going to start with afp and they are going to install the sprinklers and arab engineers are working with the av and the ligh.