San Francisco Is Coming Back: Mayoral Candidate Lurie
San Francisco Mayoral Candidate Daniel Lurie, a Democrat, joins Ed Ludlow and Caroline Hyde to discuss his platform and why he believes permitting needs to be streamlined and clean tech needs to be embraced to revive San Francisco. He speaks on "Bloomberg Technology." (Source: Bloomberg) Mayoral Candidate Lurie Farrell has stated that San Francisco is coming back, with businesses fleeing the city and desperately need to win business back. He specifically focuses on the sector of the technology industry that is looking at green energy and climate. Farrell argues that SanFrancisco is already the center of AI and needs to marry that with streamlining permitting to invite clean tech companies back here. Lurie has a track record of bringing together the business community, nonprofit community, and civic leaders, including Mayor Ed Lee who chaired the bid for Super Bowl 50 in 2013. He also highlighted the potential for a climate crisis in the upcoming presidential election. For San Francisco to be a great American city, the city also needs to embrace business as well.
Published : 10 months ago by bn in Environment
Mike Farrell has been on the show and basically said we overindex historically to tech, but they've left. We desperately need them back. You share that view, but you want to specifically focus on the corner of the technology industry that's looking at green energy and climate. Look, first, Ed, thanks for having me. San Francisco is coming back. There is not a question in my mind this race is about how quickly. I'm running against a number of city hall insiders who frankly got us into this mess. And it's not going to be done by anyone from inside that building. It needs accountable leadership. It needs new ideas. I'm excited today to talk to you about my proposal to bring a climate innovation hub here to San Francisco. And you've just had many guests on talking about AI. San Francisco is already the center of AI. But we need to marry that with. Yeah, I've heard that a lot. With with respect, Mr. Lurie, what are you actually going to do? What is a concrete policy that's going to get a company to say, Yeah, you know what? He's going to fix the city. Where? First off, we're coming back. We have the best research institutions. We have media, we have Google. We have open up AI, and we have we have we have open office space. We have 22 Salesforce towers of open office space. We have to streamline permitting to invite clean tech companies back here. You need a mayor with vision that no longer is going to say business is a bad word, but we're going to embrace tech, clean tech. We need to do this. We need to do it with new vision and new leadership. And that's what I bring to this race. What kind of, I guess, coalition building, ancillary, you know. Who are the companies and existing industry leaders that you feel are backing you? Well, I have a track record of bringing together the business community, the nonprofit community, the civic community. Mayor Ed Lee actually asked me to chair the bid for Super Bowl 50 back in 2013. We had to go up against Miami. I led the cheerleading for that effort. We won the rights to bring that game here. We brought $240 million worth of economic revenue to San Francisco and to the Bay Area. And guess what? We created the Bay Area Host Committee. We got the NBA All-Star Game coming here next year. We have Super Bowl 60 coming back. We have six World Cup matches coming here. The eyes of the world are going to be on San Francisco again. But we have to do the basics and we have to have clean streets. We have to have safe streets. And not just when the Jp morgan health care conferences in town or APEC is here. Simply put, we need new leadership, and that's what I provide. There's a political risk here that it's not just mayoral candidates coming up, but there's also a presidential election that might not be that supportive of climate tech. How do you ensure that we're not going into a bus situation that you're betting on the right ecosystem here at Daniel? Well, listen, we all know we need to have decarbonisation. We need we have a climate crisis. We all know that when you're looking at companies like Mega Google, they need more energy, they need more power, and they have their own climate goals. And so this is a technology that is just getting started. I'm sorry to interrupt, but I just want to get to the idea of what the city will become. One vision associated with your name is Wall Street for Climate Tech Rose. Is that fair? Listen, this city needs to get back to its roots. We need to be focused on arts and culture. We also need to embrace business as well. For us to be a great American city, we also need the tax revenue that we have lost under the current leadership. We have seen businesses fleeing this city. It's time that we go win business back. I've done it before and I'll do it again.