my name is sister stephanie hughes and i wanted to take a minute just to share a little bit about myself and what this build in the community means to me. i was born and raised in san francisco. and i grew up here and i knew this area but the pink palace, but i dared not come over here. i was so afraid of the space. my mom was like, she was killed if we would come over here. it had such a bad reputation and so much danger and so many things happening in the community that were just traumatizing if i shared it with you. but i moved to bayview when i was 18 where i raised my five amazing children. nine years ago i had the opportunity to and back to the western edition. and when i moved into this place i actually got a little scared because it was so quiet. i used to walk down the hallways and literally i was so not used to the quietness, it scared me. and me and my mom we would laugh when we were walking down the hallway. we both going, somebody behind -- you know, teasing each other about it, because it's so different from what we knew growing up in the community. but i love this communit