buildings better and how to make it a better neighbor in the neighborhood. so our plans are to focus on the existing lower level and connect the north and south exhibition halls, to open up the unexcavated space under howard street, to move some of the meeting space that is currently there and connect those buildings. so to give us one entire space of about 540,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit space that can be broken up or can be used as one solid space. this is one of the demands that our customers really feel we need and we really feel in order to stay competitive with other cities such as san diego who has already over 540,000 square feet. we want to figure out to add additional space and make a t a better player in the neighborhood. so we're looking

at adding three buildings above moscone north and south lobby and at the corner of 3rd and howard. we'll add up to another 100,000 square feet of meeting space on top of the existing buildings. what this will allow us to do is two things. it allows us to add the meeting space, but expand the space because we want to on top of these buildings is expand the garden experience. expand the public experience that you can do. the public will be able to use the space and it will be programmable space for convention use also. so really expand that whole urban park/plaza field of the yerba area. we'll narrow that down to be more urban feel and pedestrian and people active and you will

see a lot more dynamics going on and make that much more active with the neighborhood. here is a view looking east on howard street. how will it connect the two buildings, north and south and bring it much more into a tight feel. totally right now we have about 540,000 square feet of existing space and we'll go up an additional 200,000 square feet. this is in phase 1. how we pay for it? i was hoping that rick was going to be up next, who is going to talk about how we'll pay for it. [ laughter ] we're expanding the moscone tourism district and what is significant this is a public building owned by the city and county of san francisco, but the city will contribute and help in the financing of it. i want to briefly talk about

the master plan beyond this. south of market, if you look at the old city maps had not necessarily a lot of super blocks, but can you see a lot of alleys in the neighborhood. we want to connect those back into moscone and not make it such a distinct, super block and not only add more public space and park space and plaza space, but connect it through a variety of alleys. there are additional opportunities to build for exhibit space on top of the building, but to connect the alley ways and make it more pedestrian-friendly, to people don't have to find, "no-pedestrians allowed" signs. here is an idea of what it could look like from 3rd, across from 3rd to 4th, between howard and folsom. it opens up the streets to a

much more pedestrian-friendly attitude. we'll look at development opportunities that could include additional towers, hotels and residential space on the moscone campus site. so though that is our view. it's our vision. it's a way to keep san francisco dynamic and a way to keep the tourism industry healthy and it's a way for our business community to stay here and show the world how they operate business and to make that neighborhood even more dynamic. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, joe, very exciting and very high-impact. if you haven't seen is the beautifully renovated moscone center, a lot of things have happened in the last year. so it's already miles ahead of where it was. very impressive. thank you so much. and now, a very exciting vision

for a future we imagine the golden state warriors being here. an iconic new waterfront arena. so we're going to hear about that, rick welts, president and coo of the golden state warriors and he has over 36 years' of experience in the nba, one of the most respected business executives in the league. most recently he spent nine years with the phoenix suns and was president and ceo for the last two seasons, also served for 17 years at the nba league office in new york and rose through the ranks to become the league's third in command. we're going to -- i'm going to spend a lot more time on rick welts wonderful resume. i'm going to let him tell us about the wonderful and exciting plans for the golden state warriors here in san francisco. so please welcome

rick welts of the golden state warriors. [ applause ] [ applause ] >> we all know where we're in the program right now. this is the time when you are look at your watch and figuring out how am i going to get to the restroom or how do i make that 10:00 apilot that i wish i hadn't made? here is the deal. i can't talk quite as fast as joe. [ laughter ] but this is going to be eight minutes. here are you are alternatives. i have stationed the entire warrior's season ticket staff at the door. [ laughter ] >> thank you to the business times, mary, thank you. thank you for the kind words from mayor lee, supervisor jane kim sitting at the port's table. thank you very much. [ applause ] and i also -- i'm not sure why, but have i to acknowledge joe, because those who know joe know he gets really pouty if you don't. [ laughter ]

all right, thank you, joe. you may these two guys. joe and peter bought the golden state warriors for a record $450 million. they are the perfect pair. joe has funded the start-ups of dozens of companies that are household names for us and cut his teen in the nba as minority owner with the boston celtics and won the championship there. peter, hollywood icon has earned 50 academy nominations and made movies like color purple." rain marn," "batman," ohio $3 million in gate receipts for his movies. i

metnese guys a year ago when they looked for a president of warriors and i never heard them use the word "good in our conversation. i only heard them use the word "great." and we have really set out to build a world-class organization. i can tell you now what has happened. i think jerry west is responsible as a great player and architect of all the los angeles lakers' championship teams and a member of our executive board involved in every player-personnel decision that the warriors make it. we purchased a dame last week that played in bismarck, north dakota and this december that team will began play in santa clara was the santa clara warriors in the new arena that we're constructing in santa clara. we hired mark jackson as the

coach. but this is not about waiting five years for a great new arena to become a great franchise. we are heavily investing in both the team and the fan #kg:íw experience now. this summer there has been more investment about $11 million in oracle arena than there has been any other time since the major renovation in 1999. and one thing i would probably not expect you to recognize on that slide is a 7' center, which usually doesn't go along with the warriors. andru gagot, one the top centers in the nba will begin play for the warriors in about a month from now. part of the fan experience is in the arena, warriors fans as you know have been incredibly supportive, but also

very patient. . we looked throughout the bay area and we really do believe we found the perfect place to be the home of the golden state warriors going forward, thanks to mayor lee's support and . encouragement. on may 22nd, we made an announcement. this is also a queue for the video and a good time if you have to get out, that would be now. we intend to build the most spectacular arena in the country that all bay areas, not just san franciscos, but all bay area residents can be proud. today sets the stage for the warriors to see another year. we promise it's going to reflect creative, diversity and

technologically savvy of the bay area. one mission today, a world-class venue. a beacon for the warriors. [ music ] [ music ] we're all in. i hope to sigh at the ribbon-cuting in 2017 with a smile from a journey well-done.

we watch that every morning to get your juices flowing. [ laughter ] san francisco deserves it. how crazy is that san francisco -- there is no city in america half the size of san francisco that does not offer world-class, multi-purpose arena and san francisco has never had it, with all due respect to the cal pals. [ laughter ] we are prepared to spend over $100 million to renovate that pier, those piers, which are now crumbling into the bay and whose primary purpose is to serve as a parking lot. this project is going to reclaim this part of the city as a wonderful public asset for

all citizens to enjoy. that is a 13-acre site. so imagine as part of this project over four acres of new public space that will be incorporated into the design. and appropriate for transit for a city like san francisco, this location is tremendously located for all public transportation, whether coming from the bay bridge, the red line there is bart. the purple line is muni. you see caltrain, as well as the location of the future transbay terminal. we don't have the transportation plan yet. peter albert and the city are conducting a major study not only our project, but the transit-friendly atmosphere. our preliminarily parking study shows within a 20 minute walk of the site there are 23,000 parking spaces to put that into

perspective for you on a soldout warriors game in oakland the most cars that we park is 5,000. so that is the puzzle that we will solve through this process in making sure transportation works. now before choosing this site, we commissioned some significant research to learn how people would feel about the project. you can see the results of that here. here is what we learned. when we told people what the project was, how it would be funded, and where it would be located. this was what we learned. it's very interesting. you can see on the san francisco side of the bay, with that description and information in hand, 80% of the people support the idea of this project. i think more surprising, perhaps, is the east bay numbers. were given the same information, just about two-thirds of people were enthusiastic in their support of the project. and maybe the thing that is most important to take away,

that i haven't mentioned is this is a 100% private financed. no tax increases. no money from the general fund. [ applause ] benefits will be many. jobs obviously through the construction process, but also hundreds of permanent, well-paying new jobs. san francisco will finally have a world-class multi-purpose venue for music, artists who cannot today play in san francisco, for business and cultural event to fill a void in joe's portfolio of convention and other business coming to the city. family shows and for us, most importantly a new home back in san francisco, where the warriors started. certainly will contribute to economic growth, new tax revenue, and create a publicly accessible waterfront attraction that does not exist today. we passed a big milestone in naming our architectural team and we choose two firms that

are going to be responsible for the design of this project. san francisco's acom, bill crocket is with us today. they are the most experienced arena architectural firm in the core and have been .yn 30 projects over the decade and bill personally involved with those and with the oslo-based snow heada, the lead architect, who is a american, they are the ones who have designed the moma expansion and also for us a very important consideration was most of their high-profile projects are in dense, urban areas built on the water. you one you see there is the home of the opera and the

ballet in oslo. the port is represented here today has also appointed a citizens' advisory committee, a cac to advise the board of supervisors on this project. not quite sure how that slide got in there. [ laughter ] although i can understand an agitated mark jackson might resemble the earlier cac meetings. [ laughter ] there we go. katie is in that. this was the actual citizens' advisory committee. this committee is having an expedited series of meeting and will be active through the project to advise the board of supervisors on how to make the project work the way it needs to work for san francisco. so that is it. we soon will have site plans

and early design to share that i think is going to reflect what you saw in the video, that promise of a project that is worthy of the city of san francisco, and this iconic site. so with that, i would like to thank mary felicia brown, eric young, the entire business times staff and making us part of this event. we're very, very excited to be adding another piece,' beautiful piece to the city's heritage. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, rick. that was very, very exciting and appreciate you sharing that with us. let's have a huge round of applause for all of our speakers. [ applause ] so many great things to be excited about in our future. i want to thank all of you and i will thank all of our

sponsors again, shepherd mullen, dig engineers hathaway, smith group, jjr. and i hope that you all have a wonderful day. and next year, think of the exciting stories that we'll have to tell at structure san francisco. thanks again to our great speakers and go out and have a great day. thank you. [ applause ]

>> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great

educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years? how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, videographers. >> that has really expanded the program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. why would an artist when to come here? >> mainly, access to the materials. we also give them a lot of support. when they start, it is an empty studio. they go out to the public area

and -- we call it the big store. they go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. it is kind of like a reprieve, so they can really focus on their body of work. >> when you are talking about recology, do you have the only sculpture garden at the top? >> it is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. it is the only kind of structured, artist program. weit is beautiful. a lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. the pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility,

adults and children. we talk about recycling and conservation. they can meet the artists. >> fantastic. let's go meet some of your current artists. here we are with lauren. can you tell us how long have been here so far and what you're working on? >> we started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. i am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand- embroidered objects from our day-to-day life. >> can you describe some of the things you have been making here? this is amazing. >> i think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. i have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. it is also very windy down here. there is a piece of sheet music up there that i have

embroidered third. there is a pamphlet about hearing dea -- nearing death. this is a dead rabbit. this is what i am working on now. this is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. it is for a very special friend. >> while we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. >> i am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. when he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. it is probably one of the least thought of compositions. people are getting rid of this stuff. it holds no real value to them, because they're disposing of it. >> we're here in another recology studio with abel.

what attracted you to apply for this special program? >> who would not want to come to the dump? but is the first question. for me, being in a situation that you're not comfortable in has always been the best. >> what materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here? >> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing that hits me the most. books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. >> job mr. some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. -- taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. >> the first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. it was actually a poster.

it was a silk screen watercolor, about 8 feet long. in terms of the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. so being able to cut into it come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. >> how do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the three-dimensional? maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. >> everything is in the process of becoming. things are never said or settled. the sculptures are being made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. it becomes a part of something else. there's always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. at the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plans

be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. >> thank you so much for allowing "culturewire" to visit this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. is there anything you like our viewers to know? >> we have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. everybody is welcome to come out. we have food. sometimes we have gains and bands. it is great time. from june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. we encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. we want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. >> how many artists to do your host here? >> 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. very competitive. >> but everyone should be encouraged to apply. thank you again for hosting us. >> thank you for including us in "culturewire."

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