>> well, good morning, everyone and well, to the sf food bank

(clapping) it's a great day to be here and kickoff the beginning of sf incubates 20th anniversary and love local sf (clapping) you know i can't think of a better place to celebrated the community of san francisco than right restore at the sf food bank people come here to lend a hand and volunteer to feed others from that forntd we get 47 thousand pounds of food to feed people if that's not a cross 0 roads of xhublt in san francisco i don't know what is i'd like to stereo san francisco's mayor, mayor ed lee (clapping.)

well, good afternoon everyone. >> good morning arrest we're loving san francisco all right. (clapping) well, that morning coming out and being hit by that the sun my first question was when is the first time pitch paul mccartney i want to congratulate you 23 years i know somebody else who has been working their love 32 thank you for the food bank and helping the needy in san francisco it's my delight so join the chronicle and sf to push this wonderful and depriving love of our city everything local it's a wonderful 0 movement they've started and we want to be a part of as well i also want to say thank you to everyone here that been volunteering with our food bank and sharing their love i know the success the food bank and so many other things to help

each other is do not on volunteers for the hours you've spent thank you very much for sharing this time this is a great time for the city not only because of the things we did tomorrow with our elections we can do better and more we can make our city successful for each other for years and decades to come and while it begins with things like food it can go to jobs and children and education and business to all kinds of things we're doing to make the city greater you i've had a chance to work and meet with jeff and with christine the head of chronicle and we're excited about building the movement of love local we're excited about the city having the paper starting the focus or

making more focus on the locals manufacturing and the job creation and the kids and spirit all the entertainment that is the vitality part of our business is right here kcmo kookiness and love go together with that, may i present to jeff and christine as mayors do declare today to be local love sf day here in san francisco (clapping) okay. i'll be looking forward to joining the lines and helping out. >> thank you, mayor ed lee and thank you all as we kickoff our love annual day love local is all about celebrating san francisco as the mayor said

celebrating the differences and diversity of our neighborhood the great food scene and the great shopping and manufacturing but what else can represent love local better than helping our neighborhood we start whereat food bank a strong connection with the neighborhood our sharing fund has given owning over a million dollars to the food bank so we appreciate (clapping) thank you. we appreciate everything they do for folks in need that's what love is all about this is the start of the celebration we're excited excited to built upon this let's go ahead and have love local thank you (clapping). >> basically this is how we box

chairs and sf food bank i want to get a box we're going to fill up it all the way to the top of boxes and like those folks are doing we fill this you will u up because we want to make sure the pat let didn't collapse that's one of our big deals to make sure the box is nice and fuel as folks are boxing the indicators most of these are good not in our supermarkets they do not have those folks those are the kinds of indicators it don't make it most of the carrots are good if it's militia i didn't or mold i didn't that's a bad scooter so urge you to put a box on the side our main goal is to box all the good indicators once

your box is fuel fold the box here's our finished a pallet folks not that mr. mayor is snolts strong enough to carry a box with you sometimes, we have 4 years we're we tell he folks if you can't carry a box ask for help so what we do is carry the box to the college we put it 4 layers high and bring it to the door and it is out in the cooler and then is to the pantry and it goes on the truck in san francisco so basically folks that's the whole process mr. mayor all i need to you do. >> when a how much do we get to eat (laughter). >> there's a quality control

those carrots are washed anyone else want to jump in we can use your help folks. >> thank you george let's start working. >> okay mr. may

(inaudible). >> good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> i appreciate you all coming out today, we have good weather it's a great day optimum chris i'm from dallas, texas text it is special my daughters 18th birthday today and almost off to

college but in addition to, of course, the groundbreaking on market street and we're honored to be part of the mid-market development and everything into the city we've been working on i tell people a we've had a great experience with the city of san francisco and the mayor's office all the way down to city staff we took a a project and redesigning to make that basketball and attractive for today. >> this is a 6 lateral project and a multiple project so like the union square and macy's is one department store on six or eight levels we have 6 levels with tenants on each level and we're comboiftd about the interest and everybody asked me we're talking about going to disclose the tenants nobody to

signed but the interest is a regional and local and national tenants it be a speciality of fashion for the food and across the board you guys are excited to see the mix we've put together we have are fortunate to have the right mix and we can't wait to tell you guys we'll get a flagship retailer and the first quarter of next year we'll make the announced we want to make it right retail is tricky i've been doing this year inform thirty years we've bought and owned across the country the key to get the mtsdz right in a process like this we can open the retail project and until it's full leased and create a

vibrancy here phenomenon the book of market that will help to direct market street we've we're excited to be here and proud our architects the disdain team has done a fantastic job so and so projects are not easy and the hard part is just beginning we're looking forward to working with the city and the people here to build this is a unique i congresswoman project in the city of san francisco we appreciate you'll see help and sported i see i think i'm turn it over to mayor ed lee. >> thank you (clapping.) thank you, chris good morning, everybody. happen to be here at market i want to congratulate chris on his daughters 18th birthday and that's a real job

(laughter) this is a great time for the city and it was mentioned easily what the city has done we are we were talking about the election last week and how so many people supported the families and transportation and housing and minimum wage all the things we care about passersby parks and when we place the voters confidence in the 0 local government this is like a regard we get regard with more confidence everyday in the city this site right here in autopsying all of mid-market used reflected that as supervisor kim's belief very strongly with a good and great process south of market and the tenderloin i see members of both community here

i want to congratulate planning, dbi, all the different agencies that have come together to help with this site but also want to thank my office of the office of economic workforce development because they've been on the ground visiting every site and they've literally begun through the machination strategy where the second round to fresher us to get it going to make sure we're dealing with the challenges across the street but at the same time bringing the kinds of things that led to like the hall up the street we've celebrated that you should have seen that hall during the world series and recently, i even had lunch with jessie jackson he was looking at around and said this is not the mid-market i remember and all of

that with creating great partnerships with the offices very, very willing to do 0 chris you're not announcing the great tenants you have here that's many tenants we know that we're confidence in starting the process now is the right timing this is such an attraction for retail there will be a lot of jobs and we have a designer like the person that did the irreverent i'm excited to see this design and you can't ask for another great construction venue to keep the site safe but hundreds and hundreds of great jobs in the next year's i'm excited it is such an incredible compliment to the confidence that supervisor kim and i and

supervisor david chiu began almost three years ago with two blocks up and block by block and block get that kind of investor confidence this is what we're doing it's right and recently the controller's office come out with a report the kinds of policies we put together literally added even more than $7 million above what has begun on in the rest of the city right here along market street that's the kind of confidence we continue to have so chris congratulations for taking this on we're to be supportive and get on to building this plays and making sure we do it in a way that helps both sides of the street and continues the incredible revitalization at mid-market to help the tinder and south of market the story

about mid-market well, i know for forever in our hi supervisor kim because we came to get work done on the street sea identified market street it has not been restored it was time to revitalize it and i get to look at the pictures of all those mayors before me especially the ones that were here a in the overwhelmingly smile when i walked down the half hour we're glad to be participating with you it's all about the partnership. >> thank you for being such confidence partners for the city of san francisco with that, the 19 years old supervisor. >> thank you, mr. mayor i try to keep my age secretary

(clapping.) but solis so long as we're on that i've heard about the project inform so much years and many of us have been behind that i see randy shaw and it only feels like it's been 18 years and finally coming out of the adolescence and it's actually geology to grow and before it opens its doors but this site has been something that our neighborhoods the tenderloin and mid-market neighborhood have bun talking about for years and years the tenderloin looking forward to the markets coming to this side of the neighborhood to bring you jobs and also a place where people can shop because we have retail in the tenderloin neighborhood and i know the many years the negotiations and many

of you were involved in that and finally being able to get the time and have the project come to fruition but i came into the office in 2011 and the mayor remarked market street had a 50 percent vacancy rate it's amazing what has within accomplished over the last years and is a press with the marketplace all you way to van ness where we have many of our tech companies at 1465 and government offices as well it's excited to see was you do with the neighborhood we want to make sure it's good for everybody we want to make sure we're hiring in the neighborhood and we're making sure it's a place it's comfortable and safe for folks of all incomes and background we

can do that as a community together thank you and congratulations (clapping.) thank you, mayor and supervisor kim we appreciate your attendance today, we look forward to being good stewart's this project didn't work unless we all work together the hard part is over the hill now a bigger hill i apologize this technical city you guys live in we were going to project onto the wall but we cannot. >> thank you. we had a great day weather wise we're going to do a ceremony if you guys are up for it

okay. >> 1, 2, 3 hey i'll be extra careful okay. >> really appreciate it thanks so much thanks everybody