tony salazar for nearly 40 years has fought to develop and redevelop communities of color mr. salazar (clapping) thank you. i've developed developments like this all over the united states i want you to know that today, i can attest that san francisco is showing the world had you great it is you should be proud great cities accommodate everyone didn't matter how much money or the jobs they do or the income great cities accommodate everyone this project as reverend walker said will create a village and mixed use and have people of different levels of working and living together unit will be i think distinguishable they'll be of high quality and energy efficient and treating e creating the best community possible people will drive by and say that's not public housing they won't know the difference they'll say that's the community i want to live in and great developments like this have great leadership and i want to thank several people here who have it takes a lot of folks to get to this point and some days there's bumps in the road but we stick to the goal and go forward and gr

alice griffith i know that reverend walker talked about this i'm about making sure it happens tony salazar that said we have bumpy parts yeah. it is bumpy not only between him and me but everybody and the reason it has been bumpy at the beginning we're trying to are we're going to hold each other concoct before you we introduce new friends we've got to honor the old friends i remember working in the mayor's office and huddling gavin newsom to try to figure out when there was is so much negative blame where i am blame for the past, present, and future it's going to be a struggle to get everybody together now we have the foundation and we held each other accountability and hiding was a great part because of leader pelosi and now it is secretary castro it's ophelia and the others that gave us the opportunity tony as we talked about choice neighborhood wow. being part of 5 cities in the country is get this grant we better hold each other acknowledge so we redid the r50e789 and ocii a brand new commission a fresh director and tiffany and friends in tab in that case that met with us and lavelle