Port Pavilion on Broadway Pier Dedicated by Port of San Diego

I am happy to see this day finally arrive public this is your pier stroll out enjoy the view make use of it in a full way as the years pass there will be many many wonderful functions here either hosted by a municipality, an agency an entity of government, or in fact you you may choose to have a birthday party, a bar mitzvah, a wedding reception, a wedding who knows but it's a wonderful facility and it was designed to accomplish just that, to have that kind of versatility it's lovely yeah because when people get here they immediately have experience of the city which I think is valuable I'm glad to see it. We need more cruise ships coming into San Diego and the art and the look will give a really great first impression of southern California It's got a nice feel, upbeat, happy The Port has done a tremendous job they've given us something that San Diegans deserve they included the public in the process, they were very responsive I think we have a space now that's going to be used for so many different events in it'll serve our cruise industry but also serve the citizens of san diego and the region as they want to come down and do a lot of things on this waterfront what you have created here today is a is a wonderful interaction and my introduction is to the number of ports we come to, we operate from is this a very special very interactive facility that works very well with the city you are still a waterfront city so here combining the city combining the waterfront make it a win-win to all users, a wonderful idea and we congratulate you for doing that it's a wonderful idea to call it a pavilion so it's really not a port and it's not a terminal and and and it's wonderful how it came out. On behalf of SDG&E I just want to say congratulations to the Port an outstanding project and as Commissioner Bixler mentioned you know this is the LEED certified uh... facility and and while some people might not say it looks beautiful on the outside it's beautiful on the inside and I think you really have to pay attention to look at all the features in here and being a LEED certified building means that it is one of the most environmentally friendly buildings in the world and that's something to be very proud of another unique feature of this facility is the public artwork internationally known artist and lighting designer Leni Schwendinger designed the large-scale artwork on the front of the building title Radiance it's the only one of its kind in the world this is again for Leni not only a unique and site-specific design the technology is very cutting edge