Overview
- Grant Avenue turned into a night-market style festival with food vendors, live music, interactive games, and an intergenerational performance by the Grant Avenue Follies.
- The stage program honored AAPI sports figures Kristi Yamaguchi, Golden State Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase, and former 49er Jesse Sapolu.
- Panelists emphasized the importance of Asian representation in sports, with Nakase and Sapolu sharing how visibility and conduct shape opportunities for future athletes.
- Organizers and local coverage cited expectations of more than 500,000 visitors to the Bay Area during Super Bowl week and encouraged those fans to visit Chinatown.
- The celebration coincided with Mayor Daniel Lurie’s birthday, as Marie Lurie highlighted perceptions of safer, cleaner streets during his first year in office.