zendesk has led and upper a by the way, it was not turny it was zendesk that signed up first for mid-market so thank you (clapping) and we've got people like ralph my brother he's enjoying so some community groups. two years ago nick he will and i and supervisor kim were celebrating the expansion of 1424 up the street and just list two years ear celebrating a fantastic thing between all of that you're going from what i think at the beginning upper doing all the outreach now in a position you're in to the space your creating it's a wonderful, wonderful transformation that's good morning.

i will continue to say that mid-market is our intention we want to work closely with you but you're a major, major resident business and participant in mid-market i congratulate you with working with our worrisome staff and our huge source of nonprofit and art community this building is what i envisioned for market street to really bring back it's grandiose place in the city and county of san francisco and just the fact you've illuminated this building at night i pit some lights there i've been talking about night life along market street you've started to do it before we get the first events out this the the commenting of the arts it's perfect committing

us to make sure we emancipation proclamation line the arts with the space before you people shuffled through all the challenges and now we have a great partnership and i just say those last few years we've seen zendesk philosophical out there whether it's pco things you've announced the way for people to find the services through sf it's incredible to our signaling to chiefs chefs programs that offices experiences right here on the site to our outreach to all the community organizations that are going to be utilizing

this space and helping the employees helping out in everything else i'll really, really enjoyed the way you've celebrated this f it is ed lee like. in that you didn't announce how much over the asking price we're not even cleaning the streets a that's what i do when i celebrate it, it's fantastic (clapping) go out there we're a community we're matching up the philanthropy the sense of being a part of san francisco also revisibilities through your employees so with all this great things going on and the fact you're going to open up your spice you're already signaling you want to lead the efforts and

have an even more combrishtd business community in mid-market we can get other people excited about why you're here and i think the latest annuity by the way, we have to make sure we're doing all the things we're part of our city asphyxiation and supervisor kim and others we have on the ballot what i think a city that wants to make sure our kids get educated properly so we have a children enrichment program we want a city that has transportation and in the private directing transportation fund we're helping like you are those who are folks to be respectfully with a wedging effort there's so many things on

the ballot we're putting together in collaboration with the board to make sure our city is successful as we look at market street with the arts and the small businesses and a lot more people engaged so a lot of things to celebrate tonight and, of course, the latest which say, i really love small business owners by the way, and i know with david scott their story about having in burial heights and selling to the folks in japan they had a dream that perhaps they will have a lifetime tea cafe. i got to listen to my wife and i've gotten also to start with

my old folks tea wailing they'll have their first cafe dream on michael street so it's a wonderful new business welcome (clapping) michael's cafe. i want to support something for creating spaces for small business for people who want to have a better life this is the first few years on market street i am excited for you and know your - we'll do the best to take

this example and continue to very vitalities market street for everyone not only for some folks but realizing their spirit and their capability to become the entire community north and market street and congratulations to our your success (clapping) come on up here i know what we ought to do is, of course, announce her coming up to this stage i'm not going to reveal her age >> can you hold on for a second. >> oh, you have - and oh, my

god. >> happy birthday to you. happy birthday to you. happy birthday dear candice (laughter) happy birthday to you. (clapping.) birthday girl >> thank you. thank you, thank you for having this on any birthday. i had a sign up party by this has completely maid for this. the mayor talked about our vision for mid-market i'm sure you're aware of which of you were part of the conversation when we talked about revitalization of market street

we had the highest vacancy rate and the highest unemployment it was not an easy confidence to have we understood there were businesses that left the tenderloin and have called it their home. when we saw the jobs we talked about the tech companies we wanted to attract and not have keypads going to be completely oblivious to the neighborhood and where the vision of the community benefits agreement came down and have companies participate to actually give back we knew in giving back would be monitor how many dollars you give back to the community it doesn't build

on the relationship we're lucky that zendesk was the first company to move into mid-market and the city metrics office the first company that came waltz cob and was translate to actually spend time in our neighborhood building relationships you see it in the room we have residents and nonprofits that serve the community for years and years and small businesses and property owners that are here as well. i can't tell you how amazing but difficult it's not easy to do. i knew i was in trouble when i was calling to invite resident to come and mark with me last weekend i got a couple phone calls i got long pauses and it was embarrassing. (laughter) and especially it dawned on my

me oh, no corporations are their it's a officials said you can (inaudible) and i'm glad it's passed because i knew they were going to give me a run for my money claufr. it's authentic when i was in tenderloin school i didn't ask how tenderloin was doing people divorced and it's about our kids i st. anthony's to be serving our clients over and over and over and over again, it's great to do a volunteer center but to send people multiple times a week is hard work and it's not enough to come once a year if you're trying to help to cash

out the first or second or third grade it takes dedication i'm so grateful for everything you've been doing a so i wish you tremendous success you'll a be the roll model ems san francisco is different it's great to have roll models that are doing it different. i want to recognize all the many nonprofits folks it's great to have hear about the ambiance of the local neighborhoods and, of course, we've got free spaces authorizing this part of market street the partnerships we build is about building a sustainable

birth on tenderloin and i welcome zendesk f in being a part of the community. congratulations on our move i'm excited to see the kids organizations when i started out in chinatown actually residents in the room we've often seen they have shared kitchens or no kitchens and it's hard to do things like doing our homework or having family dinners the families can come and gather and cook together we take that for granted but it's how it was provided it's price also so thank you (clapping) >> i'm eric i'm with the west capital partners i wanted to

thank everyone for coming here today, i can't under state how excited we are to be in the building and thrilled to have mayor ed lee announced the real concept we'll be opening shortly in 2012, we barbed on a vision to return this to its glory and it's truly the presence along market street. we shared a vision at this point with supervisor kim and many other and the call shares on market it's the heart of san francisco. it will be that way and the condition of the building when we went over the new building 90 percent of brick was covered

with black dirt and then is significant amount of time exposing the building go and hosting the tenants to be as strong as we could be. we were truly closely working with supervisor kim and the consultants trying to get the exterior side where it is as well as in front everybody to it's original nature we had a contractor who was the only person going to be doing a matching pattern so we're committed to create an insurance building so because of the statute and and a half at least we entered the building and be wanted to figure out what where

it was and miguel touched on this month interesting we reinstalled the 4 hundred pikes you have to come back and see it we've partnered with ed davis to bring this on the other side of the building to dmrie different images trying to express the nature of mid-market. i don't think it's possible to understate how proud i am of the job we've done and i thank missing gels team for creating the opens for the transformation of the building >> i know there w is one person in the room if you're back there

raise your hand (clapping) trying to make sure he delivered it the way it is and be able to deliver the product you have today so thank you (clapping.) between you and the fabulous party we're about to hold as mentioned earlier the official unveiling of the mid-market we're a group of small and large and midsize biz businesses to create a vibrant corridor we're starting small and our focus is to help activate the ground floor retail spaces that run the length of market street and hyper hyper phobic we're we want to help the nonprofits and community organizations that are

critical to so many in the neighborhood. the bulk of our existing membership is on the bay area we have come together with your you'll neighbors but if you're looking for other to join we have a well marked table for anyone that wants more information or other members. i also wanted to note we have

♪ ♪ ♪ >> the san francisco playground's hitsvery dates back to 1927 when the area where the present playground and center is today was purchased by the city for $27,000. in the 1950s, the sen consider was expanded by then mayor robinson and the old gym was built. thanks to the passage of the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood parks bond, the sunset playground has undergone extensive renovation to its four acres of fields, courts, play grounds, community rooms, and historic gymnasium. >> here we are. 60 years and $14 million later,

and we have got this beautiful, brand-new rec center completely accessible to the entire neighborhood. >> the new rec center houses multi-purpose rooms for all kinds of activities including basketball, line dancing, playing ping-pong and arts can crafts. >> you can use it for whatever you want to do, you can do it here. >> on friday, november 16, the dedication and ribbon cutting took place at the sunset playground and recreation center, celebrating its renovation. it was raining, but the rain clearly did not dampen the spirits of the dignitaries, community members and children in attendance. [cheering and applauding] ♪ ♪

. >> good morning and welcome to the transbay joint powers authority for thursday july 10. i would like to acknowledge sfg tv which makes all of the meetings online and on the website and transskypes all of the meeting. can we take roll call? director deal is not here today and director nuru. >> present. >> director.

>> present. >> director. >> present. >> director. >> here. >> chair kim. >> here. >> you have a quorum. >> welcome. i would like to welcome our new member to the group muhammad nuru and excited to have you join our board. so is there any communications or new or old business from the board? >> none that i am aware of. >> seeing none we will move on to number five the executive director's report. >> good morning everyone. i would like to wish our chair a happy birthday. >> thank you. >>i would like to welcome our new director, welcome director. as a tradition every summer i would like to introduce our summer interns. this is the only meeting they can come and introduce themselves to the board because we typically recess in august. we're delighted to be in the sixth

year of internships and we work with the san francisco unified school district and a number of community based organizations and the young community developers and horizon unlimited the mayor use and education program and the japanese youth council to name a few. we also work with the college students and the objective is encourage students interested in engineering, community outreach and finance to participate in the program. this summer we have 10 interns on the projects two school and other college students. our two college interns are from the north and east bay and i would like to invite them to come up and introduce yourself. >> hi. my name is mar sitta pool and an intern from and the

[inaudible] dwelling complex located in the mission. i am a senior at balboa high school and excited to work on the program with a female executive director. >> thank you. >> good morning. my name is win winston nu and a high school senior and i work with program management team. what i enjoy most about being in this internship this summer is being able to learn how to interpret construction drawings as well as going out to the field to see these drawings come to life. thank you. >> good morning. i am allen troy. i'm a senior at san francisco university high school

next year. i'm an intern from urs and working with permanent management and program controls team. this summer i have been working on the street vacations and learned to read legal descriptions all of the facets that go into that. >> good morning. i am reid sanbarb and interning and go to the bay school of san francisco and a rising junior there and i am excited to be on this project because it's having such an amazing change on the city skyline. thank you. >> hi. my name is zach moore i grew up in california. i am interning with web corthis summer and go to school in boston called went worth. i am excited to work on this project because it's going to have an

impact on california and others for many, many generations. >> hi i am jerra and a high school at rucker builders and a rising senior [inaudible] in academic high school and i am excited for this program because [inaudible] for me -- for my future an engineer. thank you. >> hi. i am cowees jones and i am here for webcorand i am excited about this program because i recently graduated from tierra nova high school and i am going to college and i'm very excited for this program because i never thought of construction before but once i got into this internship i love it now,