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tv   Mayors Press Availability  SFGTV  March 18, 2016 9:50am-10:01am PDT

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community members [inaudible] converting [inaudible] in the tenderloin into a healthy corner store and supporting the business owners to change their business model from making profits from cigarettes and tobacco and soda to healthy produce and changing what the businesses look like. working on helping build more open space and recreational activities in the neighborhood. this is part of how we keep our neighborhoods healthy on a daily basis not just when they come in to see their doctor or [inaudible] also working close with us on the ground in the neighborhood so we can make the lives of the residence and families and seniors healthy every single day. thank you and congratulations. [applause] [inaudible] board of
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supervisors. [inaudible] of the mission bay medical offices today on february 25, 2016 signed by the entire board of supervisors. thank you. [applause] >> we are just about ready for lunch, but before we do that i want to pick up on the [inaudible]
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>> hi mayor. [laughter]. thanks for coming. [applause] [inaudible] to introduce and welcome you here and thank you very much for coming in and being a part of it. [inaudible] [applause] >> it is nice to be here.
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first of all, isn't this a beautiful place in mission bay? [applause] i want to follow up on supervisor kim's announcements and also i ran into supervisor cohen at the meeting as well and think everyone has smiles on their face that kaiser found [inaudible] mission bay that is one of the most exciting places that are happening in the city and i just wanted to clarify particularly for the employees of kaiser that you don't automatically get giants and warriors tickets, but if you want to get them you have to talk to bernard later. anyway, i'm happy to be here to celebrate this great opening [inaudible] have that
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opportunity to serve probably 80,000 people that it is set up to do. i do know it will make members like myself have more time to go because the excellent services and support and access to healthcare. it is incredible that kaiser was able to find this site and choose it for their new clinical offices. i know you will have more than just happy employees, you will have a lot of happy customers that don't have to trek across the city to get to the facilities they need. you will have a lot of city employees and will find it happy as well and many other employees who [inaudible] find a lot of great access. i tried out your new restrooms here and they work really well. pushing the [inaudible]
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and everything opens. great facility. i know it is [inaudible] because we have another lead goal designed building so people and your entire development team i have to say kudos to you because it is these buildings that we fiend more and more the energy efficient and modern and accessible and have tremendous value. being in mission bay is exciting too because as supervisor kim said things are happening. there thousands of residents are finding their home here and [inaudible] by adding other things that make it a community, not just in addition to. [inaudible] the partnerships you see, the tremendous bio and life science s and technology [inaudible] to
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compliment the people living here and the really nice housing we are building and affordable housing and a few blocks down we will create the new veterans as well. [inaudible] i just want to say in addition to welcoming kaiser here, it is also to say thank you to ocii. maybe you and staff and commissioners that are all here celebrating because they also have to be very innovative in their apruch approach to make sure [inaudible] like kaiser, so it is all working together very well and i know the future of mission bay wile always be [inaudible] we need another mission bay 2. we need areas like that that we
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reinvent itself. that take what used to be a block away my driving range and rail yard and have the city reinvent the area so people can [inaudible] but have medical facilities like this, they have invasion like this, they have it a few blocks away from the public safety headquarters and make sure we all work together in the healthcare environment that produces even more invasion. this is [inaudible] places like this causes people to be that much more innovative and customer caring and that is what kaiser has done for me. great institution not only to see the invasion going on and down the road we will be anal to see how kaiser and other
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healthcare providers [inaudible] and serve better and that is what is happening with the environment we created here in mission bay. with that, i would like you to join me and bernard, if i can have you and your staff come up. [inaudible] the key words is ladies and gentlemen, today is kaiser perm nenta san francisco mission bay [inaudible] [applause]
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