that don't always come together all at once and so that is a great achievement that came through a lot of hard work and the collaborativive effort and on top of it, we have kind of as a bonus, to the vision of sfwi-fi, we simplify and unified the brand, and the user experience, and that is what this is really all about, and we, extended ourselves to make sure that we tested this from the end user standpoint and we went to the parks and as an end user, measured how usable and functional it really was, because at the end of the day, it is easy for a technologyist to get caught up in the technical aspects if it works or doesn't work and we sometimes forget that people just need to be able to access it and use it, and in on a regular way. and so, i think that we have always been able to shift the focus to that real critical end user which is the san franciscan who is going to use this to help us close the digital divide and i think that is a real other achievement on

top of the technology cal effort that took place which was significant. and i will tell you that i trust that the team and the network so much that just this morning, i activated my brand new iphone using sfwi-fi and so i knew that i would come here and tell you that it worked or it didn't and i can tell that you it did. and my own phone, and so you know that takes a significant connection. and i want to thank everybody and thank google and sf city for the contribution and thanks for the administration and for the support and pushed make sure that we delivered what was promised and with that i want to introduce rebecca who is all things government if google and extremely instrumental in this project and hopefully many things going forward. >>

>> google is proud to provide free wi-fi, where thousands of googlers live and work. and google's mission is to make information accessible and available to everyone, and that is the first step in the process, you are right, this is the first step and i am looking forward as the new manager of public policy of google of talking about the second step and the third step, but let's get used to the first step first. and this means that in 32 different places, you know, the kais of ether net and dial up are over and everyone is on a mobile phone and, everyone is on i a tablet and now in 32 locations around the city, people will be able to access and they will be able to know all sorts of things and so we are so proud on behalf of

google to stand in front of you and see the kids playing outside and hopefully they will continue to be outside and not be on tablets but i am really hopeful about the future and tech and the city and what is to come. >> and the mayor has said that we have been at press conferences highlighting public partnerships throughout the city and whether it is the south of market or mid market or i am here to announce that the district city is the mayor's favorite district in the city. and so, really i know that i am a broken record around this message, but district six does have the fewest parks and the smallest parks here in san

francisco and so it takes a great deal of creativity and also a ton of coordinated team effort to figure out how we can enhance, and build more open space here in our district. and there is a renaissance in our district thanks to the leadership at rec and park and trust for public lands is here and we are going to be opening a new park and renovating a new chief playground here in the tender loin and these are the open space that our residents so desperately depend on to be healthy and to rec create and to build the communities and we do in the tender loin, we do represent the poorist residents of san francisco, but what we often don't realize is that even if you don't have a computer at home, or if the infrastructure is so hold that you don't have the capacity to bring in the internet or to plug in the multiple electrical appliances in your unit.

and most of the residents are able to access the internet through the smart phone, or even through the foot phone and most of the residents do have cellular phone and they use them to access the resident, and i hear it from the hotels and i hear it from the working class families here and the latino and arabac and others, and they have been asking for wi-fi and in fact when we welcome in the tech companies, here just down the street from the tender loin, the residents say that we want them to come and we hope that they will partner with us to bring in the wi-fi so that we can access the internet and as the supervisor mark farrell says that it is a need now and you can access the employment training programs find out about jobs and clothes and services and on the free wi-fi, wherever they can get it

to be able to access, really vital information, and in order to live and to thrive here in san francisco and that is what the program is going to mean in the residents to the tender loin and i am excited and the mayor's office and under the leadership of mark farrell that we are going to bring this to the open space and parts here in the neighborhood and so thank you for the partnership and i know that the residents are going to appreciate and i just got on the wi-fi as well and so i will be able to tweet with the hash tag sfwi-fi and so this is a positive step and for our neighborhood and our city, thank you. >> thank you, supervisor kim and thanks again for coming here today and i think again as we talk about not only breaching our digital divide and providing access through the city what you see through the visuals are the different play grounds thater lighting up across the city of san

francisco and every neighborhood and hash tag, sf wi-fi, please use it and thanks again for being here.. >> all right. well good morning to all of you seven hundred and 50 of you welcome to our annual san francisco structures forum i'm mar i'm the publish of san francisco business times i have someone i want you to meet this is our breaking news of this week i want you to meet corey wee bit beggar our new real estate resort he i've been talking to several of you so corey good job for the advanced work you've gotten stories going now have you have a face call

him and we consider you all sources this is corey we're happy to have him he's smart and curious again call corey real estate is an important beat to the san francisco business times back to welcoming all of you, we have a great program good morning and thank you for being here on behalf of our spokesperson mr. hampton we're going to hear from our mayor this morning and from a group of developers who will discuss the force and projects that are shaping san francisco they're to give us insight into current and coming challenges maybe things that have made the headlines as early as today and

faced by the ralph transforming city the challenges that are faced by the people like them that build and develop the projects that shape us we're going to dove into how san francisco is dealing with the friction and the conflicts of this growing how we're dealing with an inadequate affordable housing and space with the skyrocketing costs are driving companies and families out of san francisco and how is this city dealing with the backlash against the tech companies that are flooul the growth and the developers that are in some ways preventing from it as the developer continue to transform this city they gravel with old foes with old and new limitations and with the need for sound planning to match the

growth so those of you who have been coming to the structures our plan today to have a little bit less of a presentation you know the show-and-tell and more of a conversation with the panel of developers they each have some great things to show you and specific areas they're developing. >> put that in context and we're going to have a great conversation we'll invite you to send up our questions before we get to our discussion we'll hear from the mayor he'll look at how to build affordability into the equation thank you to our sponsors they come every year we we appreciate them thank you to shepard mullan

we know that his lawyers have complex actions and hear from joe real estate partner in a few moments. >> thank you to our sponsors ac could systems and also right in front of me, of course, eco designs hundred and 50 types of projects including the iconic projects like san francisco general hospital the mission bay hospital of ucsf benny hoff and the exploratorium we it thank echo for being here and defining witty wanting thank you and halfway has designed the interiors from the san francisco

to the silicon valley they're doing our new office space so such iconic so thank you to halfway dunn witness and the architectures with the health care education this group offers steps if all disciplines and how 80 today's employees want to with work work and shift those biefrz into positive clients our table sponsors if you look at the screen we appreciated they're being part of the program too i want to thank our partnering associations of san francisco with mark and s i o and if you are i also want to thank the san francisco chamber and dennis cunningham from the center of economic development

thanks to all the groups from by the name of i promised i would mention an important initiative even with the development boom there's a challenge it is a real estate talent crutch with baby boomers retiring and many professionals not filling the jobs and they're they've developed an initiative they want to involve you you've teamed up with san francisco state university with the real estate and many groups are joining by the name of it's called create i real estate alliance for tomorrow's employees if you want to get involved get in touch with mark it's a really great effort to get the workforce in this

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now to open our program set the stage for our personalities please welcome the folks if shepard mullan. >> there you are shep (clapping.) >> thank you, mary and well, on behalf of the shepard milling listens it is one of the most farther events of the year it confuses an opportunity to look at what's going in the city and industry but more than it give us an opportunity to step back and consider how real estate development is shaping the city and how people of the city and the social dynamics they're creating and it's constantly changi and shaping our

economic there's a policy geek in all of us this is a perfect opportunity to look at it so the san francisco best estimates thank you for preparing this opportunity to us every year and to our other sponsors and speakers for making it possible i was thinking about what to say today, i of the remembering that 7 or so years ago i made the observation that the population center of san francisco was clearly moving south and east at this point the main drivers were mission bay, hunters point shipyard, yes. the new transbay terminal was on the books and in the works many vacant caltrain lots but i don't know that any of us expected the kind of explosion of development we're

now seeing driven in large part by the tech industry by their desire to be in the city to be a part of this city and in the real estate needs both the residential and office and other that's generating i have to laugh we've come a long way from the point in time we were trying to lure office development south of market but offering development rights nobody has talked about that concept in a long time more recently i've made the objection that bicycles are part of our world to developers need to consider bicycle parking in residential and office structures it is rapidly bam

more than that that's not a fad it's going away but very much a part of urban culture and planning for bicycles and pedestrian safety is a part of our streetscapes and very much part of what our departments are dealing with we see evidences of the continuing changes around us some of them happening far more quickly and it's a very petty environment but mary pointed out it brings a number of fundamental questions primary among those is how do we meet the housing needs of an economically diverse population and maintain it with the diverse population and accommodate new ways even if doing business airbnb, lift uber who knows

what's next in terms of new registration and a w where do we draw the lines on the new registration those are a few of the challenges all good challenges facing the city i looked at it to to what the mayor and distinguished panel has to say and i know you do too (clapping.) thank you gene and thanks to shepard mullan we are also delighted to have mayor ed lee with us to guide us with this violation vision and look at the priorities and outline some of the solutions in the city he's been proud of the thirty i lost track of the cranes in the air and the innovation hub of san francisco they're concerned, of course, about housing and what

we can do to keep our economy vibrate i've seen the discussion that is up for this morning we love you ma mayor ed lee e mayor ed lee so welcome and thank you for being with us mayor ed lee (clapping.) thank you, mary and thank you to the san francisco business times for the invitation to speak about the city we all love you i was asked here this morning to talk about what i've been thinking about late i've been thinking about a lot of things and issues in the city and so some of the issues i want to share you with this morning first of all, god help those gientsz they're already talking about what is magneticallyly possible i thought with the home

run with the boom gardens let's give month guarantee you do not to the gardens that's been on my mind i saw steven curry and graduating congratulated them for bringing home the basketball cup and thrnd ritual for usa home for usa and the riders cup that's what i've been thinking about that's it mary thank you very much (laughter) you've asked me to talk about the issues of the city and affordability let me first of all, point out and is thank you if you want to talk about affordability it's easy to understand look at the men and women who are serving

you this morning in their excellent service they'll tell you what affordability champion it in san francisco. >> for serving us this morning (clapping). you know when i took office i pledged that san francisco would remain the city for the one hundred percent and since this time i've protruded an affordability agenda affordability we'll talk about housing it is not just housing but affordability is good jobs and good education system a low cost way of moving around our city with a strong economy we can definitely help those in need so housing, jobs, education, and transportation are all connected in our economy

when we lost strength pursuant to suffers that's it let's start with jobs i came into this office where i started in 2011 many of you know unemployment rate was double dignity now 4 percent our city employees more people in this time then in the history we've made progress in the city since the recession job growth is occurring for example, in our technology seethes, of course, you all know that over 23 thousand jobs since i took office have been created by the tech sector and that tech multiplied letter is true it's responsible for an additional 52 thousand jobs since 2010 we've added jobs and targeted sector

like health care and hospitality and construction and we have, of course, seen a birth in manufacturing it's a model for the rest of the country and today, we have more than 36 thousand industrial jobs in our city and those local manufacturing are providing jobs for low income and moderate families in the city, of course, with all our help we're seeing an unprecedented demand in the marketplace 82 percent of the office space is all right. preleased that's an incredible amount 82 percent and even with 23 large office developments that totals 11 million square feet of office space that's not enough i i know that many of you here

have prop m on our minds for the first time since 1980 we've got more demand to build office space then under the prop m for companies to relocate here is a good thing but one of the consequences for the office space is that rents are up and so far there's so far up from nonprofits and other small businesses their finding it hard to keep a footed hold in the city that's why i need our help for a fair and practical solution to help those vitality organizations to stay here where they belong we need to be thoughtful about our approach to prop m we'll begin to look at the office space we've lost in

the past years we're lost some office space to conversion something in between a million to 3 million square feet so if we're going to be fair about this we ought to begin with a fairness question i'm looking forward to hearing from our planning commission i know our director is here he's going to be available to talk about prop m but we are carefully looking at all the issues leading up to it but most importantly particularly with you in this room that are great business people we have to have a great conversation with the whole city about prop m housing observing to keep jobs coming here we've got to talk about housing and every growing company from manufacturing to

tech we need more housing to support the few range of the workforce and for the growing workforce to sustain our economic growth well into the future you know we've seen people returning to city and counties cities nationwide when all the jobs were going to the suburbia we're a great beautiful urban environmentalist a vibrant community and diverse groups and we're going to have more housing demands we're naurg to meet the demand because we didn't do the rings in the past and pent-up demand means higher prices right now, if you imagine those folks

in the market a 2 bedroom apartment can't rent for less than $4,000 a month that's clearly not affordable and clearly we need to increasing that supply to meet it and bring down the high confidence in june i made a pledge to create thirty thousand new units by 2020 and at least a third 10 thousand of the units to be permanently affordable to low income families and oath 5 thousand to be within reach of middle-income families between january and june of this year we produced for homes than all of 2013 by the way, 2013 was not a bad year a good year for

building affordable housing we'll continue this process and our pipeline is dramatic just think we have over 50 thousand residential unit at some stage of development 25 thousand of osmosis likely con online before 2020 and have over 10 thousand under construction or nearly to start sea 9 thousand units at some stage of building and approvals and another almost 6 thousand units master plan in areas like park merced and the shipyard that will con online by 2020 the city is funding projects like this we've completed seven hundred affordable homes and another 65 open soon there are a lot of people in the room that helps to

meet the grave housing we're delivering affordable housing on site and off sight and in creative ways for example, month mesoso eric is providing 32 bedroom units at selma and after 28 happen at that time, in ocean view habitat was partnered to nearly double all their affordable units and bryan spear has created an off site project on market street this has challenged my office to think more creatively to help meet our goals we're making progress also on the pledge i made to fix