standing right there (clapping) so much of what you see inside of office was made possible by his hard work and direction and he did all that having the ceo hanging over his shoulders a congratulations. i think the mid-market neighborhood is shaun showing you it works one person helping to drive that change was, of course, mayor ed lee who years ago saw what this neighborhood could become i want to turn it over to mayor ed lee (clapping) >> well, thank you very much good evening, everyone. this looks like a partying countryside here.

well, first of all, i want to express my just enthusiasm for tonight there's a lot of things to celebrate my how things change but a week and a half ago i was in your pride parade and going down market and saw the whole building of speculators and, of course, this 1019 thank you firing wonderful contribution and i was watching how the prideful of participation and thank you upper part of making that parade so wonderful. i have so many others to thank there's tiny groups supervisor kim and i rejoice in the opportunity every time we come

together there's more partners and community-based organizations that join up there's more volunteers that have the spirit where i think 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

>> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of speci species extinction. >> many exhibits do make long detailed explanations about

species decline and biology of birds and that is very useful for lots of purposes. but i think it is also important to try to pull at the strings inside people. >> missing is not just about specific extinct or endangered species. it is about absence and a more fundamental level of not knowing what we are losing and we need to link species loss to habitat loss and really focuses much on the habitat. >> of course the overall mission of the academy has to do with two really fundamental and important questions. one of which is the nature of life. how did we get here? the second is the challenge of sustainability. if we are here how are we going to find a way to stay? these questions resonated very strongly with maya.

>> on average a species disappears every 20 minutes. this is the only media work that i have done. i might never do another one because i'm not a media artist per se but i have used the medium because it seemed to be the one that could allow me to convey the sounds and images here. memorials to me are different from artworks. they are artistic, but memorials have a function. >> it is a beautiful scupltural objective made with bronze and lined with red wood from water tanks in clear lake. that is the scupltural form that gives expression to maya's project. if you think about a cone or a bull horn, they are used to get the attention of the crowd,

often to communicate an important message. this project has a very important message and it is about our earth and what we are losing and what we are missing and what we don't even know is gone. >> so, what is missing is starting with an idea of loss, but in a funny way the shape of this cone is, whether you want to call it like the r.c.a. victor dog, it is listen to the earth and what if we could create a portal that could look at the past, the present and the future? >> you can change what is then missing by changing the software, by changing what is projected and missing. so, missing isn't a static installation. it is an installation that is going to grow and change over time. and she has worked to bring all of this information together from laboratory after laboratory including, fortunately, our great fwroup of researche e-- g researchers at the california academy. >> this couldn't have been more

site specific to this place and we think just visually in terms of its scupltural form it really holds its own against the architectural largest and grandeur of the building. it is an unusual compelling object. we think it will draw people out on the terrace, they will see the big cone and say what is that. then as they approach the cone tell hear these very unusual sounds that were obtained from the cornell orinthology lab. >> we have the largest recording of birds, mammals, frogs and insects and a huge library of videos. so this is an absolutely perfect opportunity for us to team up with a world renown, very creative inspirational artist and put the sounds and sights of the animals that we study into a brand-new context, a context that really allows people to appreciate an esthetic way of

the idea that we might live in the world without these sounds or sites. >> in the scientific realm it is shifting baselines. we get used to less and less, diminished expectations of what it was. >> when i came along lobsters six feet long and oysters 12 inches within they days all the oyster beds in new york, manhattan, the harbor would clean the water. so, just getting people to wake up to what was just literally there 200 years ago, 150 years ago. you see the object and say what is that. you come out and hear these intriguing sounds, sounds like i have never heard in my life. and then you step closer and you almost have a very intimate experience. >> we could link to different institutions around the globe, maybe one per continent, maybe two or three in this country,

then once they are all networked, they begin to communicate with one another and share information. in 2010 the website will launch, but it will be what you would call an informational website and then we are going to try to, by 2011, invite people to add a memory. so in a funny way the member rely grows and there is something organic about how this memorial begins to have legs so to speak. so we don't know quite where it will go but i promise to keep on it 10 years. my goal is to raise awareness and then either protect forests from being cut down or reforest in ways that promote biodiversity. >> biodiverse city often argued to be important for the world's human populations because all of the medicinal plants and uses that we can put to it and fiber that it gives us and food that it gives us. while these are vital and

important and worth literally hundreds of billions of dollars, the part that we also have to be able to communicate is the more spiritual sense of how important it is that we get to live side by side with all of these forms that have three billion years of history behind them and how tragic it would be not commercially and not in a utilitarian way but an emotio l emotional, psychological, spiritual way if we watch them one by one disappear. >> this is sort of a merger between art and science and advocacy in a funny way getting people to wake unand realize what is going on -- wake up and realize what is going on. so it is a memborial trying to get us to interpret history and look to the past. they have always been about lacking at the past so we proceed forward and maybe don't commit the same mistakes. wedne

this is the regular meeting of the directly commission i'd like to remind everyone to turn off a all trng fiascos. #345i79. commissioner mar. commissioner clinch. commissioner walker. commissioner lee is expected and supervisor scott wiener and commissioner sugaya are excused we we have quorum and the nekxt is presidents monopolist >> good morning and thank you all for coming we're obviously commissioner lee will join us here many a minute we have a light agenda which i nthink it

good unusually we take wone monh to monwoone meeting off a year. presidents announcements the brblg engineer joseph for the staffing addicting booth at the this year's chinatown fair on june #14 where thth where they many questions of in-law units 5 and the mandatory retrofit program and what to d o to prepare for t nehe next big ea t earthquake. the building inspector would singled out in a letter in a happy customer so far his tentative neness in a recent project on second avenue and special acknowledgment to him. thanks to director hu