Feeling guilty over spending on designer shoes or silk ties instead of giving to a worthy cause? Here's a way to combine both activities to benefit children.
Attend the Grand Opening Gala for the new Bloomingdale's Westfield San Francisco Centre on Tuesday, Sept. 26. All ticket sales and a percentage of proceeds from purchases during the event will benefit UCSF Children's Hospital.
The event will feature a performance by Grammy Award-winning jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, in addition to a cocktail buffet. The event will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. The store will open to the general public on Thursday, Sept. 28.
Botti has worked with such leading singer-songwriters as Marc Cohn, Joni Mitchell and Natalie Merchant, and has toured with Paul Simon and Sting. He also composed and performed the score for the Robert M. Young film Caught.
"Bloomingdale's grand opening will be a fun way for the public to become better acquainted with the work of the children's hospital, which touches the lives of children throughout Northern California," said hospital Executive Director Roxanne Fernandes.
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Barbara and Gerson Bakar and Frances Bowes will serve as honorary chairs for the opening gala. Nanci and Gary Fredkin, Pam Glogau and Richard Glogau, MD, Jan and Peter Harris, Leigh and Bill Matthes, Cathy and Mike Podell, and Beatie Lazard Seidenberg will serve as co-chairs.
One of the nation's top children's hospitals, UCSF Children's Hospital creates a healing environment where children and their families find compassionate care at the healing edge of scientific discovery, with more than 150 experts in 50 medical specialties serving patients throughout Northern California and beyond.
More About Bloomingdale's
The 357,000-square-foot store at 5th and Market streets will be the first new West Coast store constructed from the ground up by Bloomingdale's, and second in size only to the original 1-million-square-foot store at Lexington Avenue and 59th Street in Midtown Manhattan.
The new Westfield San Francisco Centre will integrate the former Emporium department store building into the existing San Francisco Centre. Originally built in 1904 and destroyed in the 1906 earthquake, the Emporium was later rebuilt, retaining its historic dome. The dome is the centerpiece of the new Bloomingdale's.
Bloomingdale's, a division of Federated Department Stores, was founded in 1877, and with the opening of the San Francisco flagship store, operates 37 stores in New York, New Jersey, Nevada, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, Minnesota, Florida, California, and Georgia.
Tickets to the event are $250 at the patron level; $100 at the associate level for ages 35 years and younger. For event, invitation and ticket information, please call 415/502-4337.
