WEBVTT - SF Mayor Daniel Lurie Talks Tech Revival 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:07.240 Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news. 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:11.639 I want to get straight to the idea behind San 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:15.720 Francisco Downtown Development Corporation. It seems like the burden sharing 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.400 initiative is to get private capital to help. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:22.079 You with a lot of what the city needs. That's 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:22.960 absolutely right. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:28.200 Our business community, our nonprofit me, our arts community, we 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:33.200 want them to be partners in San Francisco's revitalization. I'm 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:37.519 really appreciative of the leadership of David Steepleman and that 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:41.360 board that has formed for taking on the challenge of 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:45.839 helping all of us bring our city back and lifted 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:46.560 to new heights. 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.440 Is the scale of the challenge billions of dollars and 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.440 who are the big names behind it that will give 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:53.120 you that money. 0:00:54.200 --> 0:00:58.160 Well, you've seen the board, the list of board members, 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.440 but it's I don't know in terms of what they're 0:01:02.440 --> 0:01:05.440 trying to raise, if it's one hundreds of millions or not, 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:09.039 but it's going to be private and public dollars. We 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:14.119 have to invest in small ways and in big ways. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:19.280 We are seeing momentum starting to build in Union Square. 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:23.839 We just got news that Zara is launching a new 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:27.640 flagship store forty thousands feet four stories. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.319 Nintendo is opening up. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:35.640 We just had a great local b petisserie, a bakery 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:39.920 open up in Union Square. So we're seeing wins happening 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.800 every single day here in San Francisco, and the Downtown 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.480 Development Corporation is going to build on those on those wins. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.320 This is the first time, you know, I've spoken since 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:53.920 your election and since taking office. Prior to taking office, 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.040 you really put emphasis on partners that were helping you 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:58.080 right with the transition. 0:01:58.160 --> 0:01:59.520 Sam Outman was one name. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:03.120 What is your relationship like with the technology industry now 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.240 and the biggest figureheads of that industry in this city. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.080 Well, we launched the partnership for San Francisco. We have 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:16.200 twenty eight different business leaders from tech, but also from 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:20.680 McKenzie and from Deloitte, and from UCSF and from the 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:25.280 San Francisco Giants. We have the business community coming together. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:30.520 I have said to the region, I've said to the country, 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.840 and I've said to the world that we are open 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.639 for business again and San Francisco is on the rise. 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.920 We want a business back, and we want them to 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:42.919 be part of the community, really focused on how they 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.960 can help lift up our arts and culture, our public 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.959 schools and help us keep our streets safe, keep them clean, 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:54.480 and we have gotten a tremendous response in our first 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.040 ninety or so days and we look forward to partnering 0:02:57.080 --> 0:03:01.160 with them, our nonprofit community, and our friends in Miss Larry. 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.799 The main question I get for you from our audience 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:07.880 is how you make San Francisco competitive for the technology 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:12.680 industry new companies coming here versus Silicon Valley. Why bring 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:16.280 a headquarters into the city of San Francisco or require 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:19.760 staff to be in the city of San Francisco versus 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:20.800 the broader Bay area. 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.760 Well, first off, we're the most beautiful city in the world. Second, 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.720 the horsepower is here, the intellectual horsepower is here. We 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:33.560 have great universities, including UCSF around here, and young people 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:37.640 want to be in urban environments. They want to be 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.240 in San Francisco. That's been proven true throughout history, and 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:43.200 we're going to prove that again. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:46.400 We have great arts and culture institutions. 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.560 We were just named the culinary capital of the country, 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.800 so we have so much to be proud of. And 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.160 we know that workers want to be here. Our CEOs 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:00.160 who were talking to they know that their employees want 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:03.440 to be in San Francisco. No offense to my friends 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:08.320 down in the Peninsula, But people live in San Francisco 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:09.920 and we want them to work here, and we do 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:12.920 have to get competitive, but it starts with safe and 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:18.919 clean streets. Our property crime rates have dropped thirty five percent, 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.440 Our violent crime has dropped fifteen percent. Car break ins 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:26.520 in February the lowest in twenty two years. This is 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:31.080 a safe American city and we want everybody coming back to. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.919 Work here, to play here, and to live here. 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.680 It's very How is the White House and is Tariff's 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.280 policy going to impact your ability to do what you've 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:44.719 just outlined, bring more of the technology industry to the city. 0:04:45.160 --> 0:04:48.320 Well, listen, we are all and you all are reporting 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:53.520 on it minute by minute. The uncertainty is impacting everybody 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.719 around the globe, and so we have to plan for 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:59.040 that here at city Hall. We're working with our department heads. 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:01.720 We have a big budget deficit. We inherited one of 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:05.960 the largest deficits in our city's history. So we're working 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.040 day and night to make sure that we tighten our belts, 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.040 we deliver core services to our taxpayers and to our residents, 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.640 making sure that we focus on public safety, focus on 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.400 the behavioral health crisis, and the drug crisis that is 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:24.960 causing people to feel the disorder on our streets. But 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:29.000 that is all starting to improve. And so we can 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.080 only control what we can control here in San Francisco, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.719 and that's our fifteen point nine billion dollar budget. We 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:38.320 have a one point one billion dollar budget deficit. Over 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.560 the next two years. We're going to get that under control. 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.800 We're going to fix our structural budget deficit, and I'm 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:47.480 telling you we're then going to be off to the races. 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:49.040 Data Bricks knows it. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.720 They just secured an office space one hundred and fifty 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.880 thousand square feet open AI just open new headquarters by 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:02.120 Chase Center. We are on the of lift off here 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:03.640 in San Francisco, and we want. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:04.880 Everybody to come be a part of it. 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:08.920 The other threat of the administration is to pull federal 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:13.360 funding from so called sanctuary cities. San Francisco included in 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:14.960 that threat. Your response, please, may. 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:22.440 Our policies have kept us safe, and we have once again. 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.200 Our property crime is down, our violent crime is down. 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:30.000 We are one of the safest American cities going right now, 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.080 and we need to get that out into the world. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.800 And that's got to be the narrative that people here 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.760 from US, and so I'm focused on making sure we 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:44.359 keep our citizens safe. Every single day, We're making sure 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.400 that we're sending a message to those that are coming 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:50.320 here to deal drugs. We're no longer a city where 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.520 you can come to deal drugs or to do drugs 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.160 on our streets, or to sleep on our streets. We 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.640 had a report just that came into me this morning. 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:01.640 We used to have a couple hundred tenths in the tuenderline. 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.839 We're down to seven as of yesterday. So we are 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.960 making sure that our streets are safe and clean for 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.080 our residents and for our taxpayers. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:12.520 And that's what I'm going to focus on. 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:18.440 Trade, immigration, tariffs actions by the federal government one way 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.120 or another. How concerned are you about this sort of 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:24.960 the reputational damage to San Francisco? In other words, if 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.360 you are a tourist from any other jurisdiction, Asia, Canada, 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.680 Latin America, or you're an entrepreneur, a startup founder, and 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.720 you look at the situation with tariffs, are you worried 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:40.120 about how that impacts someone's perception about coming to our city. 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.800 Well, I think we have been worried about that, and 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:47.400 we Frankly, we lost our way for a handful of years, 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:53.000 and we took our status as a global destination for granted. 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:57.280 And those days are over. We are focused on clean 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:01.040 and safe streets. We're focused on winning conferences and tourists back. 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:05.440 We just had the NBA All Star Game weekend. We 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:08.400 have Super Bowl sixty coming, we have six World Cup 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:12.240 matches coming. We had the thirty thousand people here for 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:17.080 the Game Developers Conference. We have so many green shoots 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:20.280 in San Francisco. I can't wait to welcome more people 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.400 from around the world. We're going to go visit different 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.480 places in Europe and in Asia and invite people back 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:30.680 to San Francisco because they are starting to hear the 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:34.840 message from our administration that San Francisco is open for tourism, 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:37.560 we're open for business, and that we are a city 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:41.360 on the rise. Those days, that narrative that's from a 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.400 few years ago. We have a whole new story here 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.040 in San Francisco, and that's one of being on the rise. 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:51.120 And there's no better place to do business or to 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.160 visit than San Francisco right now.