st. francis square cooperative. rosa parks elementary school. the tenderloin district. the union square alliance. the geary community advisory district and so many others. there are way too many people that i need to thank. thank you to all of you and thank you for showing up here today. and i would like to introduce our mayor london breed. please come up, mayor london breed. >> when i think about this project and what it's actually going to do to bring the western district and the japantown community together in a different kind of way, it really fills my heart with so much joy because i can tell you as someone who grew up here. i have some witnesses here because i know jada, pia, you toeia, you remember what it was like when we would come from this area of buchanan. we would stop at every park. we'd hop the fence and hang out in the playgrounds there and then we'd cross this very dangerous street. this is not anything i would advise anybody to do or any kid to do, but this is why this was so important to me. this crossing right here was so important to me because i wan

st. francis square in 2017.y told him he was forbidden from crossing geary because it was just too unsafe and the webster bridge was not an option for him. but because of all the safety improvements and with excellent training, lou can now cross geary on his own and make it all the way to the calvary church. [ applause ] thank you so much, lou, for your service on the committee. and thank you for letting us share your story today. we are so happy that your neighborhood is now more accessible to you. and thank you for working so closely with the project staff to make sure all of our pedestrian signals are loud enough so that they can be heard. thank you to everyone who helped to make this project a reality and thank you so much all of you for coming out today despite the rain to celebrate this milestone with us. thank you. [ applause ] >> all right. thank you everyone for joining us. now it would not be a project kickoff without a ribbon and a giant pair of scissors. so i would like to invite back up the mayor, o

st. francis square in 2017.reviously told him he was forbidden from crossing geary because it was just too unsafe and the webster bridge was not an option for him. but because of all the safety improvements and with excellent training, lou can now cross geary on his own and make it all the way to the calvary church. [ applause ] thank you so much, lou, for your service on the committee. and thank you for letting us share your story today. we are so happy that your neighborhood is now more accessible to you. and thank you for working so closely with the project staff to make sure all of our pedestrian signals are loud enough so that they can be heard. thank you to everyone who helped to make this project a reality and thank you so much all of you for coming out today despite the rain to celebrate this milestone with us. thank you. [ applause ] >> all right. thank you everyone for joining us. now it would not be a project kickoff without a ribbon and a giant pair of scissors. so i would like to invite back up the

st. francis square in chair preston's district which was still filled with financing from hud and the workers union. it is now a market based co-op having canoe continued off its mortgage entirely but houses the leadership of the labor movement in san francisco. it's been a successful co-op. next slide please. so cooperatives are people centered enterprises owned, full and run by their members. and to reelect a common goal in the economic, social portal. cooperatives bring people together in democratic ways members and the customers and employees, users and it's cooperatives are democratically managed one member,one ruled out . they have equal rights regardless of the amount of capital they put into the inner right. they are driven by values not just profit and cooperatives share internationally agreed uponprinciples to act together to build abetter world through cooperation . those principlesare voluntary and open membership , democratic control, economic participation , independence , education training and information of their members. cooperation with other cooperatives and concerns for t

st. francis square in chair preston's district which was still filled with financing from hud and the workers. it is now a market based co-op having canoe continued off its mortgage entirely but houses the leadership of the labor movement in san francisco. it's been a successful co-op. next slide please. so cooperatives are people centered enterprises owned, full and run by their members. and to reelect a common goal in the economic, social portal. cooperatives bring people together in democratic ways members and the customers and employees, users and it's cooperatives are democratically managed one member,one ruled out . they have equal rights regardless of the amount of capital they put into the inner right. they are driven by values not just profit and cooperatives share internationally agreed uponprinciples to act together to build abetter world through cooperation . those principlesare voluntary and open membership , democratic control, economic participation , independence , education training and information of their members. cooperation with other cooperatives and concerns for the com