SF supervisors OK Candlestick area growth plan

From SFGate,

The Board of Supervisors gave a unanimous OK on Tuesday to a plan to put 1,600 new condominiums and apartments in a triangular area tucked between Candlestick Park and Highway 101.

Plans call for the 70-acre site, now mostly parking lots and temporary office space, to be turned into a residential community that could eventually have more than 2,800 residential units in a number of towers, some up to 240 feet tall.

A patchwork of condominiums already has been built and will remain on the site.

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Executive Park residential development OKd in S.F.

From SFGate,

Called the little sibling of the larger development at Hunters Point Shipyard, a plan to build 1,600 new residential units in a triangular area tucked between Candlestick Park and Highway 101 was approved unanimously by the Planning Commission Thursday.

Developers and the city have been mulling proposals for the desolate area known as the Executive Park since the late 1970s. But no plan gained traction until last summer, when the city approved a huge development at the nearby former naval shipyard.

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