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To me, it looks like every other condo building that's being built in the city right now, but what're you gonna do?
I wonder how long Wolfe's Lunch can hold out where they are?
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Showing posts with label Redevelopment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Redevelopment. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
The Renderings For The Corner Of 8th And 16th Streets
To me, it looks like every other condo building that's being built in the city right now, but what're you gonna do?
I wonder how long Wolfe's Lunch can hold out where they are?
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Future for redevelopment workers still in question
From the SF Examiner,
Projects identified by The City for continued funding from the state include the massive Hunters Point Shipyard redevelopment plan, the revamp of Mission Bay and parts of the downtown Transbay Terminal project.
Smaller projects, such as a remake of the shuttered Schlage Lock factory site in Visitacion Valley and a planned makeover for businesses on 3rd Street in the Bayview District, are likely to languish.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
A San Francisco District Begins to Reduce Blight
From the New York Times,
Read more at the New York Times.SAN FRANCISCO — The names of the city’s storied neighborhoods roll off the tongue: Pacific Heights, North Beach, the Mission, Haight-Ashbury, the Castro.
Bayview, a historically African-American district long isolated between Candlestick Park and the former naval shipyard at Hunter’s Point along the city’s southeastern waterfront, is not among them.The neighborhood’s decline was hastened by the decommissioning of the shipyard in the 1970s. A succession of San Francisco mayors — including Dianne Feinstein, Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom — sought to revitalize the area. But for decades, the Bayview remained blighted with abandoned warehouses and railroad tracks to nowhere.
Now, the completion of a troubled $75 million mixed-use development at 5800 Third Street is evidence that the long-sought revitalization is finally taking root.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
City takes over redevelopment’s responsibilities
From SFGate's blog,
As it races to shut down, San Francisco’s redevelopment agency will transfer its projects and functions to the city at large, the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday.
The supervisors approved a resolution that puts the city in charge of the agency’s current responsibilities, following a California Supreme Court ruling that allows the state to abolish its 67-year-old redevelopment program. Those roughly 400 departments must shut down by Feb. 1.
The resolution, introduced by Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Malia Cohen, transfers the agency’s affordable housing assets to the Mayor’s Office of Housing. The city administrator will take over non-affordable housing assets.
The board also confirmed the mayor’s appointees to the seven-member oversight board that will guide the agency’s dissolution. This board, required to be created under state law, will oversee the repayments and implementation of projects under way, including Mission Bay, Hunters Point Shipyard and parts of Transbay.
Its members will include John Rahaim, director of the San Francisco Planning Department, and Bob Muscat, director of International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, Local 21, who will have two-year terms. Olson Lee, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing, and Nadia Sesay, director of the Mayor’s Office of Public Finance, will have four-year terms.
“Given the short time frame and the nature of the board and the board’s obligation, I am comfortable with these appointees, that they will be able to make the decisions necessary to keep projects moving forward,” Cohen said.
While the redevelopment agency in its current form will shut down by next week, its 100 employees could stay for a transition period to the end of March. Christine Falvey, Mayor Ed Lee’s spokeswoman, has said it is unclear whether there will be layoffs.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Losing Redevelopment is a Game Changer
From SFGate,
Read more at SFGateSix decades ago, redevelopment agencies were formed across the state to revitalize blighted neighborhoods and create low-income housing. By Feb. 1, as a new state law requires, all 400 of them will be gone.
Killing off a multibillion-dollar program is a messy, unprecedented process. The way it unfolds depends on the city - and the day.
...cities can continue with projects that are significantly under way. In San Francisco, for instance, Mission Bay, Hunters Point Shipyard and parts of the Transbay Terminal project can keep going. Under a proposal before the Board of Supervisors, the city would take over low-income housing, local hiring efforts and neighborhood revitalization programs.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Visitacion Valley Planning Alliance Meeting
10 am- 12 pm
Visitacion Valley Library Community Meeting Room
Corner of Leland and Rutland Avenues
AGENDA
OPEN SPACE PRESENTATION
We have never looked at Visitacion Valley open space issues in a systematic manner. Beginning in 2012, we want to begin addressing the need for better planning around parks, street parks and street scape improvements throughout the Valley. Together, we will look at existing conditions and think of ways to green and improve our neighborhood. We have been successful with our new library, Leland Avenue Streetscape and V V Greenway Projects, which are models for the rest of the city and beyond. Now it is time to build on our accomplishments and go to the next level valley-wide. We need to find the best, highest use of open space for the greatest number of people in our neighborhood.
The goal is to persuade the various departments and city officials involved - DPW and the Recreation and Parks Department, in particular - to help us reach our short and long term goals through community planning. We all know the degree of neglect that our neighborhood has endured historically. This will be a means to plan for our shared green future. Recent worldwide weather patterns attest to the grim presence of global warming. We can do something in our own neighborhood to help alleviate the problem at the same time that we create a beautiful, healthy environment for ourselves.
Please come and give your input. This is an important meeting and we hope that you can attend.
SUNNYDALE SEWER PROJECT
Ahsha Safai and Sam Murray from the PUC will present an update on the Sunnydale Sewer Improvement Project.
SCHLAGE LOCK / REDEVELOPMENT UPDATE
The planning process for Schlage Lock has been on hold several months, while we have anxiously awaited the outcome of the recent lawsuit concerning Redevelopment. Come find out the outcome and plans for going forward with development for the site.
Refreshments will be served
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
The Shipyard
Monday, December 19, 2011
Newcomb Model Block Streetscape Project Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
Newcomb Model Block Streetscape Project Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
11:00 a.m.
Newcomb Avenue (between Newhall and Phelps)
This project has transformed Newcomb Avenue into one of the most sustainable and green streets in San Francisco with a repeating series of green areas for community use, storm water management and neighborhood beautification. Permeable pavers, traffic calming, raised pedestrian crossings, new street trees and hundreds of new plants will all come together to renew a street that residents and San Franciscans can be truly proud of.
The improvements are part of DPW’s Great Streets Program, which aims to improve the safety and sustainability of the city’s corridors and maximize the use of public space.
The Model Block Program is a San Francisco Redevelopment Agency initiative for the Bayview Hunters Point Redevelopment Project Area that aims to build community and neighborhood stewardship through private and public realm enhancements.
To learn more information, visit www.sfredevelopment.org
The project is a partnership between the United States Environmental Protection Agency, San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, San Francisco Planning Department, San Francisco Department of Public Works, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, the Bayview Hunters Point Project Area Committee and the community. For more information contact Lila Hussain at 749-2431/email: lila.hussain@sfgov.org
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Monday, November 14, 2011
SFCTA Meeting Notes: Oakdale Caltrain Station Update
Last week's SFCTA meeting covered the replacement of the structurally deficient Quint St Caltrain bridge; the Caltrain Oakdale Station status, and; the Quint St/Jerrold Ave Connector RoadInformation is available at the SFCTA Website. Links to other important documents:
This idea is proposed because Caltrain only has $25M for the bridge replacement, and while it would cover the cost of a new bridge that is two-tracks wide, just like the new Jerrold Ave bridge, it's not enough for one that would accommodate a future Oakdale Ave Caltrain Station, a station that would run from about 420ft east of the Oakdale tunnel to about the middle of Quint St. This proposed station would have up to four tracks - two for Caltrain, which would stop at the station, and two for High-Speed Rail, which would not. To keep Quint open and put a new bridge here is projected to cost $35M. Just for comparison, the Jerrold Bridge cost $13.6M to replace, and it is 1/3 the length of the Quint Bridge, so this number seems to be in the ballpark. The Mayor and Supervisor Cohen (who's rep Megan Hamilton was present at the meeting) have tried to work with the TA to come up with the needed $10M to keep Quint open. Apparently, they have not succeeded (yet?).
So, the idea is to replace the bridge with an embankment, removing the bridge entirely and closing off Quint with a continuation of the berm (the artificial 20' tall embankment that the tracks lay on between the Jerrold and Quint bridges), connecting it to the other side, and then placing the tracks on top of that to build the new station around it. This may in fact be the project that is closest to being initiated. In an email to D10Watch, Tilly Chang, SFCTA's deputy Director for Planning, says, "It is likely that the Quint closure will precede completion of the connector road, due to the safety imperative of replacing the structurally deficient [Quint St] bridge as soon as possible and the immediate availability of design and construction funding for the project (Caltrain has funding in hand). That said, our goal is to move the connector road design process along as quickly as possible so as to minimize the period of time that Quint is closed without the Connector road providing alternate circulation through the area."The connector road from Quint to Jerrold would terminate on the west side of Jerrold, where there could conceivably be some tricky traffic maneuvers as the road connects with the planned Jerrold realignment. Since this was the first time these concepts had been presented, it sounds like there's a lot of room for proposal modification, but not a lot of time. Chang said, "We are in the very early stages of planning, and our graphic for the Connector Road is highly conceptual. It is likely that that designers can widen the turning radius for that movement; during design, DPW will apply truck turning templates in order to accommodate large semitrailer trucks."
Connector Road Potential Project Schedule:
Winter 2011: Planning & conceptual Design
Spring 2012: Preliminary Design and Cost estimate
Summer 2012: Environmental Review/Community Input
Fall 2012: Final Design
Winter 2013: Start Construction
Funding: Up to $5M from Caltrain; Prop K; other local funds
Quint St. Bridge Replacement Tentative Schedule of Construction:
July 2013 to December 2014 (pending design consensus, environmental review)
SFCTA Oakdale Station ridership study:
Completion Spring 2012
Projected by 2030: estimated 2500 riders/day: 20% arriving on foot/bike; 40% by bus/transit; 40% by car (although no parking is proposed for the 1000 additional vehicles).
Links to important documents:
Oakdale Station Design Feasibility Assessment Final Report
Caltrain Quint Street Bridge Replacement Project Transportation Impact Analysis Study
For links to ALL projects involving the SFCTA in the Bayview, click here.
Friday, September 2, 2011
Toxic waste cleanup plan for San Francisco shipyard released by Navy
From the SF Examiner,
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner
The Navy announced plans Thursday to cap toxins on one of the more highly contaminated parcels of the Hunters Point shipyard, although some of the soil with radiological contamination is slated for removal.
Along with a shoreline embankment to prevent pollution from leaking into San Francisco Bay, the measures will be enough to make the area around the former landfill site safe for human habitation, according to naval officials.
But the Navy’s proposal is not likely to satisfy environmentalists.
The Navy is cleaning up a Hunters Point parcel.
- 22 Acreage of site
- 14.5 Acreage already capped
- 30 feet Depth of potential toxins
- 1.16 million Cubic yards of excavation for complete removal of toxins
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
Bayview Hunters Point Community Involvement Manager
Please contact him with any questions or for assistance learning what you would like to know about the shipyard. If you like, please ask him to put you on a mailing list so that you will receive occasional emails from him about activities, events and other information surrounding the shipyard.
Matt Robinson
Community Involvement Manager
415-295-4645 (office)
415-295-4742 (Information Line)
info@sfhpns.com
http://www.bracpmo.navy.mil/
They are also in the process of setting up an information line. It will soon be available to assist non-English speakers with messages in Spanish and Cantonese.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Potrero Launch
Coming along nicely... I love it when projects become more than just a hole in the ground.
Read more about the Potrero Launch project at 2235 Third St.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
Parcels UC-1 & UC-2 Draft Finding of Suitability for Transfer
This fact sheet provides a brief summary of the draft finding of suitability for transfer (FOST) of Parcel UC-1 and for transfer of Parcel UC-2 of the Hunters Point Shipyard Superfund Site. The report was prepared by the U.S. Navy. The FOST was prepared to document the readiness of the parcels to be transferred to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) according to all relevant and appropriate state and federal regulations including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), known as Superfund. The report also describes the readiness of the property for reuse with regard to laws regulating lead paint, asbestos, petroleum, and other hazardous materials not covered by Superfund law. The Navy is required to clean up contaminants that it spilled but does not usually do lead paint or asbestos abatement in buildings. That cleanup will be done by the new owners according to regulations that govern these substances. However, the Navy must disclose what it knows about these other contaminants as part of the FOST report.
This FOST is different from a Finding of Suitability for Early Transfer (FOSET) because the FOST documents that all Navy cleanup has been completed to the satisfaction of the state and federal agencies. A FOSET such as the one described for Parcels B & G in an earlier Fact Sheet describes what remains to be cleaned up, not by the Navy, but by the new property owners under the watchful eyes of the same regulatory agencies. The transfers of UC-1 & UC-2 are not early transfers.
Public involvement is a requirement of the Superfund process. The U.S Environmental Protection Agency's Technical Assistance Grant program provides fact sheets such as this one to inform communities near Superfund sites to assist their understanding and participation in the process.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Greening a city ... and pushing other colors out
A very interesting article from grist.org,
The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard covers 500 acres on San Francisco's southeastern flank, jutting out into the bay like the fletching of a giant arrow. Acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1940, it was once one of the West Coast's largest shipyards, at its World War II peak employing up to 17,000 people, many of them African Americans who settled nearby. The Navy ended its work at the Shipyard in 1974, devastating the local economy, and it was eventually listed for cleanup as a Superfund-equivalent site. These days, it's a rusting city unto itself, its drydock and warehouses abandoned. For a long time, its only tenants were the city's crime lab and artists drawn by the cheap space and haunting surroundings: a boarded-up diner, its Pepsi sign intact; the giant crane where the Navy once tested rockets; deserted labs that hosted radiological experiments.
As one of the largest chunks of vacant land left in San Francisco -- which has some of the highest land values and housing costs in the country -- the shipyard represents an immense opportunity. And so last summer, after decades of wrangling and neglect, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved an ambitious redevelopment plan for the site. If completed, it will be one of the largest developments here since the creation of Golden Gate Park -- and perhaps the most contentious.Read more at grist.org
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
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.Read more at SFGate
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Hunters Point redevelopment given OK to progress
From SFGate,
A San Francisco judge has tossed out most of a legal challenge to the controversial plan to convert the shuttered Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and nearby Candlestick Point into a new neighborhood with more than 10,500 homes, clearing the way for work to begin on the project.
Superior Court Judge Ernest Goldsmith, in a 37-page ruling made public Monday, found that the environmental review for the mega-project was adequate in all regards except one: the early transfer of some parcels of the shipyard.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
SF Public Health Department ethics under investigation – hearing June 23
From The Bay View,The Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing on the ethics of the Department of Public Health and the Lennar Corp. related to the department’s role regulating environmental health impacts Thursday, June 23, at 1 p.m. in City Hall, Room 263. The hearing was called in response to a community report released by Bayview Hunters Point community organizations in the SLAM Coalition earlier this spring exposing email communication the Health Department and Lennar in an effort to conceal information about adverse health impacts.More at The Bay View
The report details a series of emails since 2006 between EPA, the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) and Lennar that reveal a manipulation of facts in order to conceal information regarding asbestos exposure from construction activities at the Shipyard and present false claims in support of Lennar’s redevelopment plan. The emails were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
End to San Francisco redevelopment may be near
From the San Francisco Examiner
As state budget wrangling continues in Sacramento, San Francisco’s Redevelopment Agency is waiting for the end — or a significant change — to what it does.
The end of the agency in The City could mean the ax for nearly a dozen projects that would provide hundreds of affordable-housing units, according to Redevelopment Agency Executive Director Fred Blackwell.
Blackwell addressed the agency’s commission Tuesday to discuss the limbo condition of two state Assembly bills that passed muster with lawmakers last week, but have yet to be decided by Gov. Jerry Brown, who wants to eliminate the agencies statewide.
“The hit in San Francisco would be pretty substantial,” Blackwell said in a phone interview, noting threats to efforts such as business revitalization on Third Street in the Bayview district and a push to revamp the mid-Market Street neighborhood.
A New Name Is Needed As Executive Park Nears Being Reborn
From SocketSite,
Approved by the Planning Commission, the plan to raze and redevelop the central office components of the 70-acre site adjacent to Candlestick Point with 1,600 housing units and 70,000 square feet of retail with buildings rising up to 240 feet tall is back in front of San Francisco’s Land Use and Economic Development Committee this afternoon to vote on the amendments to make it so.
With the development currently dubbed "Executive Park," as a plugged-in tipster writes: "Since the project will become mixed use, it could use a new name." That it could. And we know just who to ask.
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