Palo Alto Mayor Sid Espinosa tours the Bing Concert Hall

Palo Alto Mayor SID ESPINOSA, wearing a webcam, recently toured the Bing Concert Hall, which is taking shape on the north end of campus at the corner of Campus Drive East and Lasuen Street.

The mayor featured the resulting video in a message to Palo Alto residents. That message also includes the mayor’s perspective on town-gown relations and plugs for the Stanford for You monthly event newsletter and the online Stanford Events Calendar.

In that message, he said, “Through the decades, the university and city have grown in tandem. Sometimes our ‘town-gown’ relationship has had hiccups but the mutual benefits have been innumerable, from Stanford professors forming of our city’s municipal utility to our shared fire and paramedic services to the numerous start-ups created annually by Stanford grads/engineers, helping to drive our local economy.”

Giving the tour of the Bing Concert Hall were JENNY BILFIELD, artistic and executive director of Lively Arts; EOIN BUCKLEY, project engineer with the Department of Project Management; and MATT RODRIQUEZ, director of production and technical services for Lively Arts.

The mayor’s reaction to the tour? “Wow, look at this,” he said.