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to go ahead and get started. welcome to the opening celebration of newest location at the gary and sonic (clapping) >> i'm mesht i'm the senior group director of target stores in the bay area. i'm happy to be here. at take the we take pride in knowing our guests and our store leader is a perfect example she's a analyst san franciscan laej please join me in a welcome of '86 many >> thank you meredith. good evening, everyone. i'm so excited to be here today and would like to kickoff the celebration for thanking each of

you. i want to recognize mayor ed lee and supervisor ed farrell and supervisor mar of district one and also our executive vp eric mcdowned and we have our beloved mascot thank you so much for being here. (barking) today is a very excited day for target in san francisco. i grew up in san francisco and everyone since i was a little girl but i didn't know i would be running one one day. as some of you know city target a relatively new development to

commencement the consequence and friendly shopping experience to this neighborhood. this city take the will offer local manufactures to meet the needs off our guests. we are very excited to provide a place for people to work for those who live nearby and ride muni. we intend to continue our reputation of being a good neighbor in the local community. navigate in 2012 target attributed over 1 and a half million dollars to organizations in the san francisco community (clapping) thank you just last friday, a one hundred and 50 target team members from all over the bay air come out to volunteer their time in the excelsior district to make over their library.

target attributed a total of $200,000 completing redesigning the new space and provided 2 thousand books to the staff and students and provided new first one and including many ipads every sibling got to take home a backpack. targeted is a huge supporter of arts and cultural institutions we invite bay areas he phone numbers phoning to come to neighbor day. we support the local charters and target has contributions. so target is very, very buildings strongly in being able to provide and give back at that time, community we call home.

in speaking of community i want to invite mayor ed lee he's been a huge supporter and it's my pleasure to introduce ed lee (clapping) >> well, thank you 46 i didn't and a congratulations for being a home ground girl by being able to manage a store in our great city. congratulations to the whole team. i'm going to ask the supervisors we have london and eric mary and scott wiener my district looking for the target store. there it is.

i wanted them beside me so we can be distinguished from the dog. i'm happy to be here. not only has target been such a great partner and i know we were together about a year ago to date where we opened the downtown store to the great delight of a lot of people. we had a great formula target had already worked with the mission call and the west side group and the work and development and produced a clear number of jobs and hired san francisco residents and today they've done it yet again. it's been demonstrated, you know, tiffany went through the legacies with the fluoroscopic goals the library and the constant attention to our youth

which target target is finding comfortable to be doing and they're there fouror summer jobs. this store will have over 4 hundred jobs maybe up to 4 hundred and 50 and 80 percent of their hires to date are san francisco residents and that's a whiff accomplishment. i know our supervisors enjoy hearing our residents getting hired at the stores because that's really what is effecting our positive economic recovery so to death figures in big time from this larger economic system we have and i'm glad to see year after year with the backpack

give away. the delivery of the ipads and your mailers. you don't have to be a tech company this is the philanthropy and the spirit of innovate by being a great store and partnering up with the rest of the city. this has been an under utilized space and a match the visibilitycy along the corridor and with the employment we're seeing with the local resident is incredible. i have to say to the store management i picked a local girl because she's demonstrated her ability to recognize community and i like to see our residents top the leadership roles. by the way, i understand that

she does a chinese new years eve with her dad so we'll be able to do martial arts (laughter) >> i'm so glad to be here with the celebration of the second-story of target opening up but with the hiring that's sensitive to what we all inside to see. it's my pleasure to give a proclamation i know the board will join me to saying in the the west target day in san francisco (clapping) >> (barking). >> go bullseye. >> thank you very much.

>> thank you so much. thank you so much mayor it's such a pleasure to have you here tonight we want to thank you for your vision and leadership. next (clapping) next i'd like to introduce the executive vp of the area eric mcdonald has helped his knowledge and understanding of the bay area has helped strengthen our relationship in the community. ladies and gentlemen, eric mcdonald >> good evening, everyone i say welcome because you're in my neighborhood. so native san franciscan it's the neighborhood i grew up in

but also, because in this building in this space is where i spend my afternoons my mother worked in the receiving department and i had to come after school. so i want to say that's tlooiflg u thrilling to be here. more importantly it's important to see target growing in this city. the community is intrinsic to the value of the organization and it shows up from to that to bottom. we love the team members who show up in community giving of their time and talents in our schools. at hill street it was chavez before that. in and through unit campaigns

they've give. we've celebrated 90 years and target was a major part of this partnership vested $100,000 in our beacons initiative so on behalf of unit way our community at large we're thrived target is here and we look forward to them growing as they invest more and more of themselves so thank you very much (clapping) >> thank you so much eric we're getting an awesome crowd. i want to introduce supervisor farrell. so supervisor farrell i'd like

to invite you up (clapping) >> thanks so much it's hard to believe we're here today. we've been working on this project i want to thank all who made this happen it takes from the teams. i want to thank targeted not only for all the giving but coming into this location and also another person who is heading up the project. they've been hiring a lot of local people especially from the western edition so it took a village and i want to thank everyone involved. my mother didn't work here but i came when it was a sears and recognize. this is about creating jobs as

mayor lee mentioned it's also about rehe storing a shopping center people didn't want to come. thooim i'm thrived to be here. i'm going to remember most is my son jack and i were the first customers hearing here at target (clapping) and that was the first item officially purchased in target tonight (clapping) >> thank you so much supervisor and thank you for helping us find an amazing home here per we love the shopping center and thank you for the sale we appreciate it. now guys before i invite you all out to shop i want to invite tiffany and her team back up here so we can cut the ribbon

and ingratiate our store. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. yeah.

(clapping) go bullseye. (barking)