this is an incredibly special moment for the city that we all love. Uh I
want to thank dr chang Doctor Pan, the board of directors on behalf of freaks.
The city. Thank you for choosing Sacramento. Our city. You will not
regret it. I want to thank the Sacramento kings but then Tina john
Jeff your entire team. You know, it wasn't too many years ago that you
saved the king's, you saved the case
and now, just a few short years later
you are, I don't know if you're saving the site that you are creating an
incredible boost or our economy and for the future that we all hope for and are
now achieving. Very grateful to all. Thank you.
The city of Sacramento with Howard chan had a team of economic development
professionals planners. Thank you because I'm,
it doesn't happen without you. I'm forgetting anybody here I think I think
for a minute.
Mhm I wanna see my most heartfelt, thank you here for my colleague Angela
Dash B in public and I have a very interesting relationship. We may write
a book. So today we were we were competitors, we are colleagues and we
are friends and I so admire the tenacity tenacity that you have
demonstrated that you always demonstrate on behalf of the people
that you represent and on behalf of the entire city, you fight, you fight for
what you want to fight for what the people want to fight for the future of
our community. And we're here today in large part because of you. Thank you
very very much.
Mhm.
So if I was driving out here
this afternoon, a flood of memories for me, I was remembering back to the glory
use coming out here and going to a King's game at Arco Arena and then
sleep train arena, How exciting it was. It was always hard to find your car
after the game. But that aside what a fabulous place uh, it was. And those
are great members from an old ferret and a very important era in the history
of Sacramento and when the Kings moved downtown, which was the great
achievement was our golden one center and saving the kings and all the
vitality had brought downtown. I was not yet there, but I was the Senate pro
TEM and involved in some of that. And I remember very distinctly that there was
a mutual promise from the kings, from the city to the community that there
would be a focus on starting a new era out in the thomas, an era of high wage
job creation of new industry, of health care, of job and innovation
opportunities. And sometimes it takes a while to fulfill a promise, especially
when you hold out for the right thing.
Great communities and great partners always find a way to fulfill a promise.
Sacramento was a great community and today we begin fulfilling that promise
to the people of SaC. I could not be happier think about this, another
healthcare campus for the city of Sacramento, thousands of high wage jobs
Innovation center. I know that the hospital and teaching facility that's
just going to be the beginning of this. What you are doing here is planting
your flat in a city that is hungry for more, is hungry for more clean industry
or health care or highways jobs, more opportunities for all of our people.
And this was a puzzle piece and a major puzzle piece to the future of our city.
So thank you for everybody who made this happen for waiting for the right
thing and for knowing that if you do the right thing and if you work hard,
good things happen to good people, good things happen. Good and great
communities. Thank you very much everybody. Yeah.