April 11, 2024 NYC Office of the Mayor News
Mayor Eric Adams: Thank you. I remember on the campaign trail speaking with members of 32BJ, speaking with members of HTC, DC37, all of these blue-collar rookies. Not only do they want to see the city built up, they wanted to see their opportunities grow at the same time and we have to be very clear, if you build in this city, you need to build union and you need to build strong and we assembled the real team that's here. Manny and Gary and Rich, all of these men who have toiled in the fields for long saying that we need to have opportunities for everyday people, for blue-collar working-class people.
You can't be a blue-collar mayor, probably the only mayor that has ever had a union card in his life, then you get here and forget those who stood side by side and soldier with you throughout the years. One of your own is the mayor and one of your own is going to bring good jobs so that you don't have to flee your city. You can live in the city that you are building and making strong. Every borough, Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island, we're all in this together.
This is an exciting moment because when I think of what my brother Councilman Moya was talking about for so long, everyone wants to leave their legacy and make sure that their legacy stand for something and mean something. It breaks my heart that he lost his dad a few months ago. His dad is not here with us, but his mom is, and his mom is as proud as her baby boy, the first person from Ecuador to be elected to office is now doing so many more firsts.
This is just a rich moment of history. Even as I stand side by side with the amazing Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, the first Filipino ever to be the deputy mayor in this city who brought this deal together, and just think about how people said it was not possible. Everyone tried before. Willets Point has been an eyesore for so many years and he had tried over and over and over again and we said we were going to get stuff done. We were going to make sure no distractions, we were going to stay focused, and we were going to grind. Because of that, we're standing on the stage today saying that we scored a major goal for New York City in this victory.
This is so much in alignment with our mission. We came here, protect public safety, revitalize our economy, and make this city livable and workable for everyday New Yorkers. Today, the city council who vote we're delivering on a big on all three. We're delivering today as we celebrate a historic once-in-a-generation victory. At Willets Point, 18 months ago, we came together to lay out our vision for a new neighborhood born out of the valley of ashes, out of the valley of just car repair shops, out of the valley of unpaved roads, slick oil all over the place, people rolled by it, didn't see the vision and opportunity, but we said, yes, we can get it done and we got it done. A neighborhood will turn decade into prosperity.
Imagine you are going to build homes for working-class people that they can start having their dreams right in their community in Willets Point and today, we're once big step closer to delivering a transformative project, the largest affordable housing project in our history in over 40 years.
Thank you. DM, you did your thing. Housing is the goal. We just scored 2,500 units of affordable housing. No goalie was able to stop us to say go, go, go. We did more. We scored a goal for a new public school for our students. We scored a goal for more than 100,000 square feet of public open space. We scored a goal for good paying jobs in economic opportunity, and we just scored a goal for the first-ever soccer-specific stadium in New York City Football Club to call home. Councilman Moya is smiling from ear to ear. He wanted this soccer stadium so bad.
He used to go to bed and wrap himself in the scarfs and hold on to his little soccer ball and say he would deliver. He did it. Picture this, 2026, the world will come to New York for the FIFA World Cup Finals right here in our city. 2027 New York Football Club would kick off their new season in a brand new stadium. That's the future of soccer in our city.
Willets Point represents the future of our city, a future in which all New Yorkers can afford to live in a safe apartment that is close to a good school, good-paying jobs, and outdoor space, and great public transportation. Willets Point shows that we can achieve it if we act boldly together. Don't be afraid of the future. You have to embrace it. No one does it better than the greatest city on the globe, New York City. We leave from the front not from the rear and no safe and affordable housing is the cornerstone of the American dream. Our winner Willets Point allowed us to make that dream a reality for so many.
We can make that dream a reality because so many of our partners, like Councilman Moya, saw how important it was. We want to thank our council person Farris, who's here with us as well, and the amazing presence of our assemblywoman who fights so hard for us, Assemblywoman Jenifer Rajkumar. We just want to thank our partner, Speaker Adams, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Marty Edelman, and New York City Football Clubs, Queens Development Group. The union members of 32BJ, the building and construction trades, and all the hardworking New Yorkers who will turn this vision into a reality.
New York City's a city of yes. Willets Point is only the beginning. We knew we can do it. Your presence here today states that you believe. We know that during Covid, a lot of people decided they wanted to go to different places. They went to Connecticut and Miami and other places. Well, all I can say is How do you like us now? New York is the place to be. We are the place of resiliency, we're the place of opportunity, we are the place of greatness. No one does it like New York City. We have won. We will continue to win. Thank you very much. Let's turn it over to our councilman.
City Councilmember Francisco Moya: Thank you, mayor. Thank you. I want to bring my mom up here. Everybody wants to see the jacket. All right. You can see the jacket. How about that? Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Adams. Thank you for your support and your partnership from day one. We've watched failed plan after failed plan at Willets Point. Three administrations tried and failed it. It took you and your vision to finally get this done. With today's vote, we're in the 90th minute, just waiting for that final whistle to come when you sign that bill. I have a feeling it's coming soon, everybody. Stay tuned. How are we feeling?
That was a little light. How are we feeling?
I'm feeling great. One of the most proudest moments of my life, not just as a legislator, but just as a New Yorker. Everybody, I just want you to know this, we just approved a union-built soccer stadium. That's right. Thousands of affordable housing units, and we're building a brand new neighborhood in the Valley of Ashes. I think it's safe to say that we just won the New York City treble. Not bad from a kid from Corona, Queens. Corona is in the house. Because that's who I am. I'm just a kid from Corona, Queens. It still is off of 104th Street. I grew up playing soccer with my brother and my cousins who are here today in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. I'm a proud son of Ecuadorian immigrants.
Ecuador. My Ecuadorian peeps. Ecuador, Ecuador, Ecuador, Ecuador. By the way, you don't know this, but the mayor is an honorary Ecuadorian. He has been to Ecuador more times and most of us have. I'm just saying. Anyway, I am telling you that being an immigrant, it teaches you some hard lessons and the love for the community that we live in. Obviously, if you grew up in an Ecuadorian household, you're born with a soccer ball in your crib. To me, it was always a dream of mine to one day play professional soccer, but as a colleague of mine said in there, I would never have made it even if I tried.
As elected officials, we hope that one day we will have projects or a piece of legislation that will be bigger than ourselves. I've been pretty lucky, and I've had a few of these writing the New York State DREAM Act, writing Carlos' Law, defending workers' rights, to name a few, but Willets Point is on another stratosphere. We are building a new neighborhood, and let that sink in. I don't mean to just call this a few blocks, something that in real estate, they call as a new listing. This is something else. We are physically building from the ground up.
Now for any of you who have ever gone to Willets Point, you're going to see the new car parks that you've known exactly what we had to do to clean that up. Now, what we have is the beginning of 2,500 units of 100 percent affordable housing. Yes, give it up for that.
Working with the mayor, working with Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, who knew that when we are facing a housing crisis, we knew that housing was the goal, and that came first. That's why we're building the housing now. If you drive by there, you will see what's happening over there.
Today, with the approval that we have, is now going to start that second phase to make this the largest number of affordable housing units to come online in New York City in four decades, and we thank this administration for fighting really hard to make sure that that happens. Thank you all for that. By the way, we're also building a privately financed union-built electric soccer stadium. Give it up for that.
Now that I think about it, anyone that knows if it's a conflict of interest for me to apply for one of those units. Yes. No, I'm just kidding. Like I said, it's been a long road to get here and it took the right partners to get it done. We're going to hear from them today and I just could not be proud to stand here with Mayor Adams, my friend, my brother, and champion on this project who believed in this dream because he's the mayor that gets stuff done.
I was going to say the real line, but we have cameras here. I also want to thank the Queen's Development Group that was willing to commit to 100 percent deeply affordable housing and have been at this project since before I was even elected to office. To the labor unions, my brothers and sisters. Are any of my union brothers and sisters in house today?
There we go. We have been in the trenches for years on countless fights. You've always had my back and I've always had yours. Doesn't it feel good for us to be celebrating a win today? Finally, to the New York City Football Club. A soccer club that doesn't just have New York in its name, but plays right here in the five boroughs, no Hudson River bridges or tunnels for real New Yorkers. To the supporters that never forget that in our 10 years, we've won the MLS Cup. We're going to build a soccer stadium in the city of New York.
The Red Bulls haven't done that in 30 years, not in New York. Next, I want to introduce somebody who truly has been a great friend and has really shown me the masterclass in being a true gentleman in negotiations and truly believing in what this city can do and what soccer means to this city. I want to introduce Marty Edelman, the Vice Chairman of New York City Football Club. Give it up for Marty Edelman. Marty is an incredible leader who has been on a mission to make good on a promise he made 10 years ago to build New York's first-ever soccer-specific stadium in New York City.
He never wavered and it has been a long road. While he waited and he helped stand up the sports team that has built over 25 community pitches and provided free soccer training for over 30,000 young New Yorkers and represents the team that brought home a championship trophy. Please give it up for Marty Edelman.
Marty Edelman, Vice Chair, New York City Football Club: I learned at the last rally that speaking after Mayor Adams and Francisco Moya is a sad task. As I sat in the City Council today, I thought about how do you really change the world. You change the world when there's someone who has a dream and someone who can build a team and we found that in Francisco Moya.
That little boy who was playing soccer became a political leader. He embraced us. He and I found a common bond immediately and we started the project. The team he assembled, which starts with Mayor Adams and Andrew Kimball and Maria Torres-Springer and my friends at the related companies. The last component was the one thing he said to me, If you are going to build in Queens, you are going to build the union. It's been one of the proudest things we've done, and we've built all over the world with the 13 teams that we own.
New York is the place that we built all union. Everything we do in this city will be a fulfillment of that commitment. Today is a massive day of celebration for us. We're proud to be part of the group that's here. We're going to be proud to build this. Really, although it is the fulfillment of a really long road, it's the beginning of a shorter road to see the stadium opened in 2027 because of you. Thank you very much.
Councilmember Moya: Thank you, Marty. Thank you for all that you do. Now I'm just very grateful to have the incredible partners at City Hall who've been pushing for big transformative projects like this. I'm excited to welcome one of those partners up to speak now. Our Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Workforce Development, Maria Torres-Springer, who is the person that is the captain of the team. She drove this home and we couldn't have had somebody better on the sidelines making sure that everything went through. We are very proud of you for all the work that you do. Thank you so much for being here.
Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer, Housing, Economic Development and Workforce: Thank you, councilmember. I really cannot begin to tell all of you how thrilled I am to be celebrating this incredible milestone in the redevelopment of Willets Point. Now, to some, today's vote may have seemed inevitable, but I want to assure you that we took nothing for granted in this process. Our mayor gave us the mandate, as he just mentioned, to stay focused, no distractions, and to just grind. That's exactly what we did.
Also, it sure didn't seem inevitable two decades ago when the first set of plans to transform Willets Point were hatched. I was a young policy analyst, my first year in city government. This was one of the first projects I worked on and let me tell you, it didn't seem inevitable then that this day would come.
Mayor after mayor moved the ball down the field in Willets Point but I want to be clear that it is during this administration, with this mayor, with this council member, that we were able to deliver on the transformative vision of this site, which includes breaking ground on the housing just a few months ago, a year ahead of schedule.
With phase two, as has been mentioned, we will deliver the largest 100 percent affordable housing project in 40 years. Also, 4,000 construction jobs, 1,500 permanent jobs, $6 billion in economic activity, new infrastructure, new open space, new retail, and of course the first soccer-specific stadium so that the world's game has a home in the world's borough.
From the Valley of Ashes, this new neighborhood will rise. It is one that represents opportunity, but it's also one that represents what is possible when the public sector, the private sector, and community come together to do very big things. I want to thank all of our partners. This was a really enormous lift, and we wouldn't have gotten here if everyone wasn't rowing in the same direction.
Of course, first, I want to thank our mayor for his leadership and unrelenting focus on making sure that we got this done, to Speaker Adams and the amazing council member Francisco Moya for their tireless leadership on such a historic win, the New York City Football Club and the Queen's Development Group for being terrific partners in this endeavor, and last but not least, the many, many generations of public servants really who worked on this project over the course of the last two decades many of whom are here today.
I want to in particular tip my hat to the amazing president of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Andrew Kimball, and his extraordinary team. Over the years, over two decades, they were always, always at the helm of driving this project and now we get to take it over the finish line. Thanks to all of you for coming out today. This administration with these incredible partners will continue to score goals, big goals on behalf of New Yorkers, and it just feels really gratifying to put Ws on the board for housing, for good jobs, and for soccer fans across the city. Thank you very much.
Councilmember Moya: Thank you, thank you. Thank you so much to Maria and everything that you do. Now, you're going to hear from someone that I'm used to seeing at rallies that are won much earlier in the morning. Two, calling out bad actors that aren't doing right by workers, but no matter the fight or celebration, Gary LaBarbera has always been there for me, but more importantly, supporting workers he represents. Please let me introduce to you my good friend, the president of the Building Trades Council, Gary LaBarbera.
Gary LaBarbera, President, Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York: Thank you, Francisco. Excuse me. Well, good afternoon brothers and sisters. How we feeling today? Good? A little louder guys and ladies. All right, let me just say a few words real quickly to you all. First of all, I do want to thank Mayor Adams. He is a blue-collar mayor and I'm going to talk more about that in a minute. Let's thank Mayor Adams. Let's thank his administration.
I got to tell you, we got to thank Francisco Moya. Now, I'm going to say I've known him, I would say going on 15, 16 years throughout his career. The first time I met him, he said to me, Hey, Gary, I want to build a soccer stadium in Queens. I looked at him and I said, What are you kidding me? A soccer stadium? His dream today becomes a reality. His commitment to working people in all the years I know man has never waived. That's why we're so proud to take a win today, we're going to be building a soccer stadium, operated 100 percent union, 4,000 construction jobs, 1,500 permanent jobs.
That's called economic development. Along with everything else that's going on out there. This will create the opportunity for hardworking, as the mayor says, blue-collar workers, to find career paths in the union careers. To have family-sustaining jobs with good wages, healthcare for your families, and retirement security. When you retire, you retire with dignity. That's what the union movement does. It lifts people up, it creates pathways. Today is an example of how when we all work together, we succeed.
Now finally, and I'm going to go off-topic and when I do that at a press conference, everybody says, Oh no, but this is all good. I have to mention one other thing and I have to ask, but all due respect that the mayor just come up for one minute. You may not all know what happened three weeks ago. This blue-collar mayor for the first time in 20 years signed the Memorandum of Understanding with the New York City Building Trades to build 1000s of units, workforce housing for all of you 100 percent union. Here is our mayor, here is our blue-collar mayor. Let's thank Mayor Adams for his commitment to the union movement in New York City. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you.
Councilmember Moya: Wow. Thank you, Gary, for those kind words. Thank you for the support as always. I'm very excited now to introduce our next speaker, a real champion for building a New York City economy that works for all of us. He's the head of EDC and has been a great partner with us throughout this entire process. I want to bring up my good friend Andrew Kimball.
Andrew Kimball, CEO, New York City Economic Development Corporation: Good afternoon. Thank you, Councilmember Moya. I'm here representing literally a generation of EDCers who have worked on the Willets Point project. Projects like Willets are why we come to work every day, to have the opportunity to partner with local elected officials and the community leaders to build essentially a community from whole cloth that will make our great city more livable, more equitable, and more fun.
On behalf of EDCers past and present, I have some important Thank you, starting with Mayor Eric Adams and Deputy Mayor Maria Torres-Springer. Yes, we are the get-stuff-done administration, but when it comes to this project, and so many other initiatives from housing, the economic development, to workforce, we're an administration that both thinks big and delivers big.
On Willets, that means more than doubling the original envisioned housing units to 2,500. As you heard, the largest in 40 years in New York City. It means welcoming a football club with deep roots locally and internationally to bring the world's game to the world's borough, all privately financed, but let's be clear, a project like this does not happen just because city hall or EDC wills it to be so. There has to be a strong partnership at the community level and that starts with Councilmember Francisco Moya. Councilmember, thank you for the opportunity to lock arms to get a project of this magnitude done for generations to come.
Planners and politicians are going to recall your bold leadership and see the physical outcome of that leadership. It doesn't happen without a borough president like Donovan Richards, who over and over again, delivers big for his borough. It doesn't happen without visionary private sector leaders like Marty Edelman and his team at NYCFC and Jeff Blau and Jeff Wilpon and their teams at Queens Development Group. It doesn't happen without a strong partnership as you heard with organized labor. Thank you, Gary LaBarbera and BCTC, and all the unions that trades with us today.
We all stepped onto the soccer pitch 18 months ago at the Queens Museum to get this started; Team NYC, City Hall, EDC, New York City's Housing Preservation and Development Housing Development Corporation, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of City Planning, the Department of Transportation, the Department of Parks and Recreation, Councilmember Moya, Borough President Richards, Community Board 7, NYFC and their fervent fan base.
Yes, and QDG there with us all along with our union partners all moving in concert. When we stepped on the pitch, with Mayor Adams anchoring our team at center back, the backbone, Donovan Richards running midfield, and our Lionel Messi bringing the ball from one end to the other with pinpoint passing and ultimately drilling the ball into the upper 90, we got it done with Francisco Moya. I couldn't be more grateful for this partnership. Now it's my great pleasure to introduce Manny Pastreich from 32BJ.
Manny Pastreich, President, SEIU Local 32BJ: All right, it's 32BJ in the house? Is labor in the house? Are soccer fans in the house?
Again, I'm Manny Pastreich. I'm the President of SEIU Local 32BJ. On behalf of the 85,000 32BJ members in New York, I am thrilled to be standing here with Mayor Adams, with Francisco Moya, Councilmember Moya. I want to give my thanks to Speaker Adams. I want to really to give my thanks to my brother in the labor movement, Gary LaBarbera. We are proud to stand here with allies in business and the community that made this all possible. We are the largest Building Service Workers Union in the nation. We pride ourselves on making sure that progress works for working people, and that means, ensuring workers get a fair deal. Does that make sense? That means expanding economic opportunities. Does that make sense?
That means putting our organizing strength into the type of community development we see today. I see Willets Point development as a project is the culmination of a vision of what this city can be and should be, and that's what we're going to do in this great city. Yes, I hear and see it a crowd roar when New York City FC scores a goal in the new stadium. Let's hear that roar.
I have to say as a labor leader, more importantly to me, I see the new high-quality jobs and the prevailing wage benefit standards that are going to be created. I see the 2,500 units of 100 percent, and let me repeat 100 percent affordable housing that will become home for local area residents. Let's hear it for that.
This is great. You can feel the energy. You can feel the passion not only for New York City FC but for this project and what it's going to mean for working people and families in Queens. I also have to say this project is a shining example of the type of housing agreement we're looking for in Albany right now. In the years, in this year's budget, we are on the verge of securing wins for prevailing wage jobs, for new tenant protections, and a win to build more affordable housing. That's going to give us another victory to celebrate very, very soon. To avoid going into extra time, I will end by saying the goal is always good jobs.
The goal is always affordable housing. Today the goal is a new home and championships for New York City FC. Am I right? All right. Thank you all.
Councilmember Moya: Thank you, Manny. Also related and their partners at Sterling Equities have been incredible partners through this process. Together, we're going to build a community centered on affordable housing. In that, I am also very proud to welcome the CEO of related companies to the podium Jeff Blau who's been a great friend and partner throughout this entire process. Jeff, thank you for all that you've done to make this a reality.
Jeff Blau, CEO, Related Companies: Thank you, Francisco. Thank you. This is an incredibly special day for related for our partners at Sterling and New York City Football Club for our team, for me personally, and my partner Bruce Beal, who's here with me. Most of all, this is a great moment for New York City. 30 years ago, my first assignment when I joined Related was Willets Point.
I won't bore you with all the history because today is about looking forward. Today thanks to the leadership of Mayor Adams, speaker Adams Borough President, Andrew Kimball, and so many others. We're here to cement the future of Willets Point as a vibrant neighborhood with affordable housing at its core. All this new housing happens because we have incredible partners at HPD and HTC led by Adolfo Carrión and Eric Enderlin.
I saved mention of perhaps the public official in many ways, most responsible for today's announcement, my friend, Councilmember Francisco Moya. Thank you for your leadership and your determination to bring soccer to the Borough. Related was founded as an affordable housing developer. It is still the foundation of our company today.
Simply put, New York City does not work without affordable housing and to deliver a project of this magnitude in a city we call home is nothing short of extraordinary. At Related, we've been through many of these ULURPs and without a doubt, this one stands out to us. It stands out because of the near-universal support for this project.
At every turn, we found support, and today is an incredible validation of the vision and the private partnership we're pursuing. We are so proud of what we're doing collectively together at Willits Point. We're going to create 2,500 units of affordable housing that will stand for generation. These are the homes our city so desperately needs for New Yorkers. We're going to have a neighborhood in a place that was once a maze of unpaved roads. We're going to have the city's first soccer-specific stadium, we're going to have a community. One partner in particular that we have related, have engaged with for more than a decade is Community Board 7.
I use the word partner on purpose. This wasn't adversarial, it was constructive. We always found a way to solve problems. I'll take a moment of personal privilege to thank the members of the related team who have been at this for more than a decade. Glenn Goldstein, Frank Monterisi, Charles O'Byrne, Aaron Lipman, Jenna Santoro, and Emad Lotfalla. Thank you.
Of course, our partners at Sterling Equities as well. As you all know, we are all underway in Phase One, Phase Two is ready to go. This might have been a long time, some might say a very long time, but in the end, it's going to be worth it for what it means for Queens and all of New York City. Thank you. Let's build.
Councilmember Moya: Now, as we come to our last speaker, I want you to know that he's trading in his baseball cleats for soccer cleats. We know that housing is the goal, and Adolfo Carrión, our HPD commissioner, knows how to put the ball in the net. Please, welcome the striker for New York City Housing Club, our great bread, Adolfo Carrión. By the way, I was told to say some words in Spanish, so maybe this is a good transition.
Quiero agradecer al alcalde por todo el esfuerzo que está haciendo para este proyecto, pero ahora tenemos a una persona que ha sido un gran campeón para nosotros, nuestra comunidad y la ciudad de Nueva York, cuando viene a las viviendas asequibles. Con Adolfo Carrión tenemos un líder que nosotros siempre estamos atrás de él porque él está haciendo un gran trabajo para nosotros. Willets Point no pudiera ser posible sin el apoyo de él.
Translation: I want to thank the mayor for all the effort he is putting into this project, but now we have a person who has been a great champion for us, our community and the City of New York when it comes to affordable housing. With Adolfo Carrión, we have a leader that we are always behind because he is doing a great job for us. Willets Point could not be possible without his support.
Thank you so much.
Commissioner Adolfo Carrión, Department of Housing Preservation and Development: El fútbolista Francisco Moya. My job that I was asked to do by our leader, Mayor Adams, was to build more housing, to get stuff done, to make this city more affordable. I am so proud, so proud today to stand here with these amazing New Yorkers that stepped forward. As you heard, it's been decades that this has been in the works. It takes visionaries, it takes hard work, it takes partnership across the private sector and the government sector, the elected leadership and the community leader leadership, but my most important and exciting emotion today has to do with that affordable housing. 2,500 units, the largest amount that's been delivered to New York City in more than 40 years. We have to say, Goal. Thank you. Congratulations, everybody.
Councilmember Moya: To close out today, I want to thank everyone. You have the jersey. I just got this and I needed to show this to everyone. This is how much? They love it. Look, mayor, we got to get you one, Moya 21.
Thank you so much. Hold on. Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Right here. Thank you, everyone. In particular, thanks to Mayor Adams. Mayor, this would not have been possible without you. Your dedication and your new fan love for soccer has been incredible. You are many things in New York City, but now you are the soccer mayor as well. You not only brought a stadium, but you brought the World Cup. You are doing everything possible to make this city better.
Without you and your vision, we would not be here today.
Thank you to everyone here in the administration, to all the fans and all the labor unions that came out here today, to my colleagues in government, in particular, my staff as well. Meghan Tadio, my chief of staff. Without you, none of this would've been possible. 14 years together, we sat down together in that one little cramp office and wrote down the 10 major things that we wanted to accomplish before we could call it a day.
Now we get to check off the last box on that list, and that would not have happened without you. I'm incredibly grateful for you, Meghan Tadio. To the New York City Football Club, to the president, to the CEO who were here, Brad and Jen, thank you. Thank you to everybody. To my mother. Ma, I know my dad is watching us today and he's very proud of what we've been able to accomplish today. Gracias, mama. Thank you, everybody.
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