to mayor breed, president peskin, sunny, sarah dennis fill imz, maim' cohen and the entire office of economic and workforce development team, i want to thank you for believing in your vision, your generosity and bringing the landing to life. let's all continue to work towards a stronger more resilient downtown and now it's my honor to introduce the mayor of our downtown san francisco and our champion, mayor london breed. [applause] >> thank you. thank you robby and thank you so much for the work that you cannot to do to activate downtown in so many extraordinary ways. let's glo sf was an incredible art installation on several of our buildings. it attracted more than 50,000 people to the downtown area over a 10-day period spending an average of 121 per person. so we know when we make investments, we fuel our economy. no longer can we be comfortable with the financial district of the downtown corridor. after a global pandemic, we had to make changes and adopt to what our new normal is and what we're seeing is, people want a more activated downtown. so earlier this year, when i proposed

i see another department head here , sarah dennis phillips from the office of economic and workforce development. and to anyone that i missed lo siento lo siento to you and to you, roberto. gracias. otra vez. thank you for all of the work to ensure that the carnival mural one of the most important murals in our cities history for our community, has been represented and etched into the awards that our honorees receive tonight. this marks the end of our speaking program. we have some wine, we have some refreshments . and congratulations again to our honorees. now is the time to break bread and celebrate food, refreshments and good music over here with dj juan love in the northlight court. we want to thank all of our sponsors who are joining us tonight. we want to thank all of our electeds, the host committee and all nlds mission, language, vocation school, cafe de hoya amellivora for helping us set up and clean up chavez winery, who you'll find inside for food and refreshments and all the other amazing vendors who have made tonight's special muchisimas. gracias a todos, a disfruto. bue

to mayor breed, president peskin, sunny, sarah dennis fill imz, maim' cohen and the entire office of economic and workforce development team, i want to thank you for believing in your vision, your generosity and bringing the landing to life. let's all continue to work towards a stronger more resilient downtown and now it's my honor to introduce the mayor of our downtown san francisco and our champion, mayor london breed. [applause] >> thank you. thank you robby and thank you so much for the work that you cannot to do to activate downtown in so many extraordinary ways. let's glo sf was an incredible art installation on several of our buildings. it attracted more than 50,000 people to the downtown area over a 10-day period spending an average of 121 per person. so we know when we make investments, we fuel our economy. no longer can we be comfortable with the financial district of the downtown corridor. after a global pandemic, we had to make changes and adopt to what our new normal is and what we're seeing is, people want a more activated downtown. so earlier this year, when i proposed

commissioner sarah dennis phillips, executive director of ewg. great to see you again. before i even launch into this issue, i just want to note that we gave last week, we had a number of exciting things happen last week, including the opening of ikea, the launch of our vacant, vibrant program with small business starts and the six month update on our roadmap to san francisco's future, which was the mayor's map to recovery. and i just want to note and i'll make sure katie and carrie get to you that we did a presentation that we put out a press release on about all the achievements that we've made in the last six months since the publication of that roadmap. and one of our biggest successes, and you'll see in that two pager was in our small business sector. how many small business starts we've seen, how many new businesses are growing and expanding in san francisco. so i just want to make sure that you all know that the work you're doing is such a fundamental component of that other work that we came and talked to you about. and it continues to be, frankly, one of the ar

i see another department head here , sarah dennis phillips from the office of economic and workforcedevelopment. and to anyone that i missed lo siento lo siento to you and to you, roberto. gracias. otra vez. thank you for all of the work to ensure that the carnival mural one of the most important murals in our cities history for our community, has been represented and etched into the awards that our honorees receive tonight. this marks the end of our speaking program. we have some wine, we have some refreshments . and congratulations again to our honorees. now is the time to break bread and celebrate food, refreshments and good music over here with dj juan love in the northlight court. we want to thank all of our sponsors who are joining us tonight. we want to thank all of our electeds, the host committee and all nlds mission, language, vocation school, cafe de hoya amellivora for helping us set up and clean up chavez winery, who you'll find inside for food and refreshments and all the other amazing vendors who have made tonight's special muchisimas. gracias a todos, a disfruto. buen