>> 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 everybodyyou. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ in landing a contract with the sfoifk is pretty champ but now

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and a data place basis ease contracting opportunity and funding or capital training. this is and other documents that needs to be submitted. to compete is a technical skill that it takes to win a scheduling for a popular to you can win a professional services job or how to put together a quote it's all those technical pieces. looking at the contracting assistance center is our touch point with we get the people to come and see the planning specks and later than about projects earlier is he get training so you're ready to go arrest hello engineering it has all the tools that a contractor small or large can come here. i can't say enough about the

center it's a blessing. we do business all over the country and world and a place like the contractor center to identify the business in san francisco >> the reality is you need training and that's what the center is here to train and make you better qualified to go work with the city and county and to be successful at the end. >> that will give people the competitive edge e edge at receiving contracts with the city. >> we have krafshth services here that help you find out where you need to get the skills forbidding. >> i mean local businesses

participation in city projects is a winning factor it helms help the business their local businesses they're paying savings and a property tax and payroll tax and normally adhere san franciscans so their bowing goods and services in san francisco it really helps the economy of san francisco grow so its not only a benefit to the project but to the city. the contractors center is 5 thomas melon circle in the bayview area open 8:30 to 5 welcom >> on december 28, 1912. san francisco mayor, sonny jim

rolph stared into the crowds of those who have gathered. a moment in history. the birth of a publicly own transit system. san francisco municipal railway. muni as it would become to be known. happy birthday, muni, here is to the next 100 years. the birth of muni had been a long-time coming. over the years the city was disjointed privately owned companies. horses and steam and electric-powered vehicles. creating a hodgepodge of transit options. none of them particularly satisfying to city residents. the city transit system like the

city itself would have changes during the san francisco earthquake. the transition that will pursue from this aftermath would change san francisco's transportation system once again. facilitated by city boss, abe ruth, ushering in the electric city car. the writing was on the wall. the clammer had begun for the experiment including public transit people. owned by the people and for the people. the idea of a consolidated city-owned transit system had begun traction. and in 1909, voters went to the polls and created a bond measure to create the people's railway.

would become a reality three years later. on december 28, 1912, mayor sonny rolph introduced the new geary electric streetcar line and the new san francisco railway. that he said would be the nucleus that would host the city. and san francisco gave further incentive to expand the city's network. a project by way of tunnel leading into chinatown by way of north beach. in december the first streetcar was driven into the tunnel. just two years after its berth, muni had added two lines.

and k, l and m lines that span out from westportal. in 1928, the j line opened heading west to the beach. in 1944 san francisco voters finally approved muni take-over of the market street railway. by then motor bus and trolley bus improvement had given them the ability to conquer san francisco's hills. after the war most of the street-car lines would be replaced with motor or trolley bus service. in 1947, the mayor recommended replacing two lines with motor coaches. and it appeared that san francisco's iconic cable cars had seen their final days. entered mrs. cluskin, the leader to save the cable cars.

arguing that the cable cars were a symbol of the city, and she entered a charter placed on the november ballot. it passed overwhelmly. the california street cable railway was purchased by the city in 1952. there were cut backs on the cable car system and in 1957 only three lines would remain. the three lines that exist today. in 1964 the cable car's future as part of california's transit system was sealed when it was proclaimed a national historic landmark. in february, 1980, muni metro

were officially inaugurated. in that same year, muni received its first fleet of buses equipped with wheelchair lifts. in 1982 when the cable car had a shut-down, they added an alternative attraction to the cars. the festival was a huge hit and would continue for the next four summers in a permanent f-line that would extend all the way to fisherman's wharf, by 2000 the f-line was in place. and in 2007 muni extended the third line to the southeast corner and returning to third street. for the first time in 60 years.