>> good afternoon, hello. welcome to the ferry building's birthday, yoo hoo! what great weather we have to celebrate. i'm elaine executive director of the port of san francisco and i have the distinct honor of opening up this grand celebration. as the executive director of the port, my team and i have the awesome responsibility of 7 and a half miles of water front and it includes this they majestic building. i want to thank the people who put this together, lillian and justin of my group. thank you people behind the scenes who made it happen. [applause] we've got some very special people here today to make this celebration very grand. we have our mayor, mayor london breed, who will speak shortly

and we have supervisor peskin and also, thank you, and also we have commissioner ed herrington joining us today. thank you ed herrington. so it was exactly in 1898 when the first vessel arrived here, opening the newly fashion pier and opening an era of prosperity and diversity for our city. for nearly 40 years, it was the bay crossing that welcomed everyone in and out of the city. the bridge went up in 1936. so today, this building is such a special place of travel, of welcoming, of diversity and we know that our ferry passenger ridership is going to go to prepandemickship as we have new routes and ferrylandings. [applause] this is a place where people

gather for the most important city celebrations, whether that be the pride parade toxer juneteenth to markets and festivals or just to have a day of enjoyment. in our time, this building stayed open during the covid pandemic, getting farmers market getting ready to return safely as soon it could and getting our stores open and being ready for the first passengers ready to travel and now in our economic recovery and vitality, we're hosting millions in celebrations and enjoyment. now, we are going to make a capsule today that will be open in 25 years, in 2048, and when it's opened, i know we'll have one thing to be extremely proud of, we are investing in the future of the ferry building to prepare for sea level rise. so in 25 years, the folks that are standing up here in the community, there would be a

grand project that we're preparing to raise this building maybe up to 7 feet and to redo this plaza to make it as grand it is today. in 25 years, the people will be thinking about sea level rise and have plans that we're preparing today. i know this building will be a worldwide symbol of san francisco, of welcoming and new opportunities and that's what we're honoring today, the promise of the city. i want to introduce victor coalman who is ceo of hudson community properties. they ensure this building is beautiful and well maintained, that's why the clock tower is covered because she is being painted. and we ensure that we have spectacular diversity and great opportunity for san francisco made products and that the building really reflects our values in san francisco. the team has worked hard to

make this building special. with that, please welcome mr. coleman. [applause] >> thanks, eileen, welcome everybody to a great celebration. on behalf of the hudson pacific team, we're here and proud to be part of this 125 years. this building is iconic as everybody knows. this very building has lasted through many many events and has been most recently the pandemic. and after the pandemic right now, when you look behind you, we're 90% lease where the san francisco's tenants occupancy. and i could not be more proud than the team in hudson who has catered to the city of san francisco to all the dynamic that we deserve. this building and the city, will celebrate this and many other things to come going forward. with that, as you can see, as

eileen mentioned, we're about to paint this building and refacing the historic clock tower and on our way to many more exciting things here in the building. we diversified the tenants in san francisco and our marketplace and this city is reflective of what we see here at the ferry building and what we see going forward in the ferry building in the future. as we said here, there is a time capsule and i'm going to put in a time capsule right now, some photos that 25 years from now, will be picked up that will be redone and all the work that we've done to date, will be part of this photos. i'm going to drop this right here. as a little commemoration. [applause] to that end, our company the hudson pacific, we believe that the future is our hands, we're excite today work with civic leaders and future business leaders to protect and maintain

the safety and security and vitality of the city of san francisco. we have a lot to look forward to. applaud yourself, this is one of the greatest cities in the world. and we're here to celebrate this. [applause] our local leadership here is second to none. through various levels of diversity and positive attributes, you can see the future is going to be very bright and currently, i'm standing here today to segway to introduce, our leader of this city currently today who is focused on business, social, and the future of this city as we stand and as we look forward it is very bright. our mayor, london breed, is a testament to the future of the city and the current aspects of where the growth of the city is. please welcome our mayor, because she is going to

continue to make massive differences for us. mayor breed! [cheers and applause] >> good afternoon, everybody! welcome to san francisco!, we're so happy to see each and everyone one of you here at the ferry building celebrating 125 years! let's give it up for the official band of san francisco, the lesbian gay freedom band. [applause] don't you just love this city? before there was the bay bridge, before there was the golden gate bridge, there was the ferry building. and this iconic building was home to trains, to cable cars, to street cars, to all kinds of vehicles, to ferries and the fact is, it was iconic back then in terms of its significant during a time way

during a time when we needed a place like this for so many different modes of transportation to come. when we think about the iconic ferry building, we think about san francisco and we think all of the extraordinary things that this building has evolved to over the years. yes, it was a place that was created for trade, for different modes of transportation, but over the years with changes, we have seen it become this incredible place with over 40 vendors and businesses and playses for people to shop. to eat, to enjoy and to really experience the vibrancy of san francisco. whuz thinks about many of the challenges that this city has faced, in fact, the 1906 earthquake, the 1989 earthquake and two global pandemic, this building continues to stand strong. before, the 1989 earthquake, there was a freeway through the

embarcadero and some of us remember that freeway which really cast somewhat of a shadow on this building. even though an earthquake can be seen as a devastation, here in san francisco we saw it an opportunity, an opportunity for this location what it can be for the people of the city and those who visit and work in the city and use the ferries and other modes of transportation to come here. that's why being here today and celebrating 125 years of what we are today, is so special. because it's so important to remind us of the past and what we've been through and the challenges. and when we talk about san francisco as a resilient city, one of the most iconic resilient buildings that exist, the ferry building is one of the places that we think about. a place that is withstood earthquakes and withstood pandemic and has withstood

transition from the smaller buildings that were once the tallest buildings in the city to some more, iconic buildings and the city continues to grow. we know san francisco has experienced challenges but we're grateful and excited to take a moment in time to pause and to celebrate, this extraordinary mind stone, a place that people visit from all over the world. a place that i visit frequently and enjoy smft venues and places to eat and shop. and what i want to say to hudson properties, they have done a really great job of making this space, a vibrant space, providing opportunities to local vendors. and creating a place where anything is possible for anyone who wants to come here. and i want to express my appreciation to elaine and the people that work for the port that commissioner, here and

commissioner john burton, let's see looks like he's walking towards this way. i want to thu for all the work that you've done and i express my appreciation by giving victor a proclamation and officially declaring ferry building day in the city and county of san francisco! [cheers and applause] i also want to say, that city hall in recognition of this special occasion will be lit up in a cobolt blue so make sure that you take pictures and also we're going to be giving out ice cream. who doesn't like ice cream, 500 lucky people here today, will get ice cream to really celebrate this incredible occasion.

and what i plan to put in this time capsule, let's see what my team put together. first, i'm going to put my challenge coin that shows a picture of its city hall in gold and it also shows the iconic san francisco skyline and it has my name on it. and also because technology is changing and i think in 25 years, you may not have the ability to print these but you're going to open this time capsule and some people may say, when did they start making actual prints of photos. so i'm going to put in a print of my photograph because in 25 years, there would probably only be digital photographs and my hope is that people will look in this time capsule and think, this stuff is really cool. when i talk to kids, they don't even know what a typewriter is,

some of you don't know what a typewriter is, that scares me a tad bit. but 25 years from now, we'll be able to open this time capsule and look at what was and as we see technology changing here in the city and county of san francisco, we know just like the ferry building, we'll be leading the way for our technology and innovation and all great things and we're grateful to be here to share with you on this time on this 125th anniversary. and with that, i would like to introduce the president of the board of supervisors, who is joining us here today and represents this district, please welcome aaron peskin. >> thank you, mayor breed. always hard to go after our mayor who said everything i had to say.

i will add ad lib. this place, since the days preceding the gold rush. this is the building that for 125 years, welcomed our entrepreneurs, welcomed our immigrants, welcomed our residents, welcomed our visitors and established san francisco as a center of commerce on the western seaboard of the united states. it is also an edface that we can learn from. the mayor referenced the mistake that we as a city and state made by wowing this incredible building from our water front and yes this building has survived two pandemic, the 1906 earthquake and 1979 and as a result of that, mayor agonos and the

board of supervisors, used that opportunity to reunite the ferry building and our water front with downtown and the rest of san francisco which we should be profoundly thankful for. [applause] this building was designed by an architect named arthur page brown who designed another civic structure that we know and love, our city hall. and coy tower and the war memorial all iconic memorial buildings in san francisco. and the reason i evoke him is because there is a lesson to be learned from this building that on occasion of celebrating the anniversary, should not be lost on us and we should remember for the next century, as we

raise, the ferry building which is that we have a tendency to muck up our historic buildings. we did that to city hall in 1996, then mayor willie brown and the board of supervisors, made the command decision at the taxpayers expense to return it to its grandeur and in deed the same decision was made here in 2003 where we unmucked this building and we should remember that. until 1948, 50 years into this building's life, there was a proposal to raeze, raise this demolished building, and the city fathers they were all men and the state board of harbor commissioners wanted knock this building down because of the advent of the car and the freeways and the fact that

ferries were no longer the form of transportation. guess what, it's 2023 and now ferries are back in and this building is still here let us, remember those lessons. [cheers and applause] and while i do not for some reason, i do not understand how the power to proclaim ferry building day in san francisco which somehow has been reserved only to the mayor in a charter section that i will undoubtedly try to change, i do on behalf of the board of supervisors have the ability to recognize with our highest honor, the ferry building on the occasion of this 125 years. and this will be the first time that i do not actually present the certificate to a person but place it in a box that we will open on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of this

incredible edifice. thank you for your steward ship, thank you to your staff, thank you for the unmucking of the building and thank you to those who have stewarded along the way, equity office and now hudson pacific, and let's get another 125 years out of this building. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, so much. weren't those fantastic speakers. the mayor and president peskin taught us so much about this building and what it represents. and i'm going to put a challenge coin into the box and about the soils and what it needs to raise it up. we'll get more information before the 25 years is unfailed. --unveiled. it's time to celebrate this building. thank you all for being here, on the 125th anniversary of

this most beloved, exquisite, historically utmost building, let's hear from our official band, lesbian and gay freedom band, let's celebrate. thank you! [band playing] music moofk histy

african-americans migrated to the san francisco bay area, but bayview hunter's point to work as part of the ship yarding culture and tradition. that is how the black community got its root in this incredible city. a lot migrated to work at the hunter's point shipyard and on the water front >> my family came to san francisco lead my by my great grand mother in 1941. she came like most of the african americans out of the south to the bay area to work in the shipyards during the second

world war. overnight years, we people prospered, homeowners it was thriving for the african-american community. where bayview became the center points for african-american homeownership. >> with the shipyard closing, a lot of jobs left and with the maritime shipping leaving throughout the state. african-americans moved out of san francisco, which was the population is 4% or less of african-americans where 20 years ago it may have been 20%. here the port of san francisco we tried to create many opportunities for are african-americans to participate in contracting in development and jobs. i'm kay book the founder of coffee company.

recently opened the flagship coffee shop. this is a full circle for mow to have opened a new cafe here at the port. also like being welcomed back home again. >> port is the first place they was able to bid and win an opinion contract as a small business owner. when we think about the business of the port, and the maritime, right, that history is really continuing to extend itself in the way they engage with black businesses, black people and other diverse communities that are situated along the waterfront and as we move inward. >> we are looking now at the port of rejuvenating the community. bringing back a kind of economic sip lutz so that the people can go back to the lives they were so well adopted to and building homes and creating families and having churches that were

filled. >> i toured crane cove park it is absolutely amazing. this will be a wonderful addition to san francisco. >> i think it is amazing after having conversations with folk who is live in the community and have been excited and waiting for this p to be realized for years, walking around, seeings the connections to history. the opportunity for folks to utilize the water here is going to be an amazing opportunity for all the families and community and i can't wait for the diversity of opportunity we will see here. >> i'm in the crowd and i'm the owner and founder of spin out fit knows. port reached out to me recently and said they would love to spin out fitness a per of this plan going to 2025. that will be the beginning of you know, this redevelopment of this southern part of san francisco. which is going to be a fantastic. i'm excited about that. >> mission rock is 13 years of

city planning and community input to transform a surface parking lot south of the park to a new neighborhood. it will transfurthermore this area into 1200 homes 40% will be affordable and this is something this we are all excited and proud of. >> having been in the industry for 17 years and seeing a lack of diversity when i joined the port, that was the first thing that i saw that there is a lot of diversity and leadership from the commission. and down through the executive team and then throughout our port. director forbes, commission they have done a good job of making sure the port team reflects not only the city but the people of san francisco and those who visit our water front >> the community. city and private cities working

together we with bring the port back to the economic stimulus for people who live here. >> it is important that -- everyone have a role at the port of san francisco and everybody feels welcome [music] >> office of initiative start in the 2017 and started as a result of community advocacy. our transgender nonbinary community advocates were really letting our government know that we needed to be heard. we needed to be considered and policy and budget decision and so, then the mayor lee and founding director of spark created officeof initiative that allow us to advocate for equity for transgender and nonbinary communitiful we focus

on 4 areas. training, education for the city employees. we focus on civic and community engagement making sure our leaders have a voice and are heard by our elected officials. we work on policies and programs to make sure our city is responsive to transand nonbinary community and add voice to departments to integrate transinclusion in policies, procedures and practice. >> we still have, lot of work to do to improve and address equity in san fran for our community upon i feel that we are on the right track and seeing how people's lives are improving thanks to those changes. i do think it is unique that our local government is sponsive to transgender communities so i hope that people can remember that despite the work we had, we

seat progress. we seat change and there is hope for transpeople in san francisco and wherever we come together and organize to improve our lives. [music] >> i'm alice king this is my husband shawn kim and we other ordinance of joe's ice cream in san francisco. joe's ice cream in rich mondistrict since 1959 and we are proud to be registered a san francisco legacy business since 2017. and we offer more than 50 flavors of homemade ice cream. and delicious home style burgers, sandwiches, hot dog, salad and more. we have a lot of different ice cream flavors both classic, long

forgotten but classic and asian flavor inspired flavor like 3 red bean and black and now we also brought the korean i'm from korea. korean coffee krooem. we mix our traditional and trendy flavors all together. shawn and i are the first generation of the immigrants here in san francisco. so as immigrants, we have a special connection to this diverse community, san francisco richmond district. so we made this place our home. that is where we are trying to build our business as a place where everybody can feel welcome like we felt when we first came here what really makes fisher or joe's ice cream we have been

growing together with our community. so we support our local schools throughout the fundraiser. we provide job opportunity for high school, i hire them every year. built a beautiful parklet outside funded by donations from over 200 neighbors and friends and i think this really shows how joe's ice cream and our community like lives together. so -- you see our mission is to serve as a fun community hub in san francisco and richmond district. so, i hope that we can stay this way for many years.

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