thank you, president matsuda. so i actually have a long history with this building, my son used to sing in it to the seniors every christmas, so i've been there a lot, and i think that seniors deserve to live in a great place. and i think we actually need to have more space like this. and as much as this is only about landmarking and i think it should be landmarked, i kind of want to i kind of want to bring up some of the comments of some of the people that have spoken earlier, i think when i dug into the project again, because i've been in this building, got my son sang in it for ten years straight when he was a chinese american international school, the idea of having, this project getting bigger in the future is a great idea. it's going to make it more financially viable, around the land marking, i think it's i think it should be landmarked. and i think the landmarking should go hand in hand with the rest of the project, i think that's all i have to say. thank you very much. thank you, commissioner baldauf. tha

matsuda vividly remembers when she would come to kingman gakuin as a child every week.here you learned about community it was a place where you learned about your cultural heritage, and i think that was very important for us. the san francisco native attended japanese language classes every saturday morning. so did generations. of japanese americans before her when the language school opened in 1911. it was always a lively, lively venue for many, many people. and then world war 2 happened and everyone had to leave. gakuin translated into english golden gate institute became a processing center as japanese american citizens or forcibly sent to internment camps starting in 1940. in exchange for giving their family name. they were given an id number. they were no longer humans. they were literally a piece of government property. innocence. since, uh the building is a kind of a symbol. sf state professor masahiko minami, who specializes in japanese language and cross cultural studies, says the racist policies of the san francisco school board mandating in 1906 the children

now is, and what it will be for generations. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: diane matsuda vividly remembers when she came here as a child every week. >> it was a place where you learned about community and your cultural heritage. i think that was very important for us. >> reporter: the san francisco native attended japanese language classes every saturday morning. so did generations of japanese americans before her when language school opened in 1911. >> it was always a lively, lively venue for many, many people and then world war ii happened and everyone had to leave. >> reporter: kim nguyen translated into golden gate institute and they were in internment camps starting in 1942. >> in exchange for their family name they were given an id number. they were no longer humans, literally a piece of government property. >> in a sense the building is a kind of a building. >> reporter: sf state professor munami who specializes in japanese language and cross-cultural studies says the racist policies of the san francisco school board mandating in 1906 that children of chinese, kore