Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Keeping Steel in America”.
Michelle burke and i live in west oakland, california, with american steel studios. It is four city blocks over 170 tenants. They range from traditional metal fabrication. The sort of thing that, to this day, cuts up steel to go into high-rise buildings in san francisco to an ethiopian spice importer.
It’S a big building, so it’s possible to have a lot of diversity. We have a lot of woodworkers as well. Fine arts, small businesses, alternative energy startups, so it is highly diverse, um, quite a few, since quite a bit of the flaming art around me here is from our building. It’S made there stored there, we’re also working on a bay bridge steel project to try and keep some of the steel here in the bay area. Since it doesn’t all have to leave the country, we can bid on it as well and we’d like to see it turned into things like a museum, not in a museum, but it is the museum to something as small as maybe a swing set in your neighborhood.
The most overbuilt swing set you’ve ever seen because it’s humorous, it’s impressive and you get to look at it and go wow. I never knew those rivets were so big when i was driving past them and it’s part of the bay area culture. It was built here. Probably by your great grandfather, it was built by hand like a lot of the things that are still built at american steel and like here at makers.
Fair people are saying: yes, you can build it, you can build it here. .