C.W. Nevius San Francisco Chronicle There are moments in the life of a city when events reach a critical point. This is one of those moments. The Hunters Point Naval Shipyard redevelopment project has provoked wild claims, scary rhetoric and small-minded bickering for decades. The plan includes a hotel, office space, retail, parks and housing [...]
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San Francisco supervisors ended more than a decade of hope and controversy Tuesday when they overwhelmingly approved a project to transform the abandoned Hunters Point Naval Shipyard into a new waterfront community of homes, businesses and green technology. The 10-1 vote, with only Supervisor Chris Daly dissenting, was a joyous moment for Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, [...]
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San Francisco Mayor Edwin Lee last week toured Hunters Point Shipyard-Candlestick Point, an up-and-coming development that has sparked the interest of Chinese investors and Asian residents who make up the area’s fastest growing population. Mayor Lee joined Bruce J. Katz, vice president of the Brookings Institution and founding director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, [...]
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The decade-old plan to turn the long-shuttered Hunters Point Naval Shipyard into a dynamic new bayside neighborhood moved a giant step closer to reality early Wednesday morning when the Board of Supervisors approved the controversial environmental impact report for the 702-acre project. The board still needs to approve the specifics at its July 27 meeting, [...]
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Bay City News Report San Francisco supervisors approved early this morning the environmental impact report for a large redevelopment project in the city’s Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood. The public hearing, which began at about 4 p.m., ran so late into the night that members of the public began addressing the board with “good morning.” “It has [...]
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An emotional and contentious showdown over the $8 billion redevelopment of the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point ended with the Board of Supervisors signing off on the project’s environmental impact report. The vote was 8 to 3 with supervisors Chris Daly, Eric Mar, and John Avalos voting to uphold the appeal of the EIR. [...]
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Thousand of jobs could be created and more than $20 billion over 20 years could be injected into The City’s economy by redeveloping the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, according to a city report released on the eve of a critical vote. The mammoth plan to re-create the former military property — which will add [...]
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San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors should respect the clearly expressed will of the electorate today by advancing plans to bring housing, economic vitality and greatly expanded recreation opportunities to the neglected southeastern corner of the city. The supervisors’ vote on whether to accept the Environmental Impact Report represents a key point in whether the old [...]
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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 [...]
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The long-awaited plan to rebuild one of San Francisco’s most distressed public housing projects could be financially derailed if supervisors kill a proposal for the massive redevelopment of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. Mayor Gavin Newsom’s long-touted plan to rebuild the Alice Griffith housing project, aka Double Rock, is financially tied to the redevelopment [...]
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