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Old Posted Apr 29, 2021, 12:04 AM
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Has there ever been any talk of creating a looping streetcar to connect the waterfront areas with the T line?
I've seen some discussion of branching the T-line to go to the Hunter's point shipyard or to other developments in the area, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. Once all the projects there are done and the Central subway has full service, it could very well make a lot of sense.
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Old Posted Jun 17, 2021, 10:30 PM
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India Basin Park

India Basin Park breaking ground

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S.F. is about to break ground on the most expensive park in city history

Sam Whiting
Updated: June 17, 2021

The old boatyard known as 900 Innes in Bayview-Hunters Point in San Francisco has been locked up and fenced off for 30 years.

But on Tuesday, Recreation and Park Department general manager Phil Ginsburg drove through the gate, exited his car and yelled out, “It’s really happening!” Then he yelled it three more times to the gathered park and construction staff, adding emphasis with each repetition.

What has him excited is the forthcoming India Basin Park, which will transform 900 Innes into the centerpiece of a chain of parks and easements linking 1.7 miles of southeastern shoreline and 64 acres of open space. The project has been in the planning stages for at least 10 years and is budgeted at $140 million, the largest for a city park project, ever, according to Ginsburg.



“This is the most important park project in modern San Francisco history,” he said...

About $29 million in funding for the park will come from a 2020 San Francisco bond measure, and $25 million more comes from an allocation from the state budget. The Pritzker family — heirs to the Hyatt Hotel fortune — also donated $25 million. The remaining $60 million will be covered by grants from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Bay Restoration Authority, the state and the city itself. Private philanthropy has chipped in $1 million already with a major campaign in the rollout process.

The waterfront renovation will be completed in 2025, at which point “you will be able to walk in a park from the tip of Heron’s Head (owned by the Port of San Francisco) to Northside Park,” Ginsburg said, referencing the final parcel at the entrance to the Hunters Point Shipyard condo development. “The design is extraordinary. It will have waterfront access, which has always been lacking in this community.”...

One group that got access were the filmmakers of “The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” a critically acclaimed feature which shot scenes on the broken-down piers at 900 Innes in order to convey the lost jobs in the shipyards and the urban decay left behind when the yards closed.

Site preparation is expected to take until the end of 2021, and then construction of the park will begin. ...

The system will open in three phases, with the first being 900 Innes, in 2023. The shipwright’s cottage will become a welcome center leading to a cove of paths, decks and boardwalks extending past a gravel shoreline.

Once 900 Innes opens, the adjacent India Basin Shoreline Park, which opened in 2003, will close for a complete makeover to match its neighbor. In the end, a rusted chain-link fence separating the two properties will be removed and the two parks will be joined as one.


A rendering of the refurbished India Basin Shoreline Park, which opened in 2000. Courtesy Gustafson Guthrie Nichol design

There will be entrances on Hunters Point Boulevard and on Innes Avenue. It can be confusing and the best way to avoid getting lost is to ride the outbound 19-Polk, which goes right past both entrances. Another way will be to look for the familiar concrete letters that once spelled out India Basin Industrial Park on the corner of Third and Evans streets.

Erected in 1978 and taken down last year, those 24 individual sculptures were donated to Rec and Park and put in storage. The letters forming the word “Industrial” won’t make the cut, but the other letters will be reset along Hunters Point Boulevard and spell out “India Basin Park” in a sign 50 feet long and 6 feet tall.
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New report finds S.F.’s biggest development project ignores huge climate change risk: rising contamination
Jason Fagone, Cynthia Dizikes
June 1, 2022
Updated: June 1, 2022 7:59 p.m.

Rising seas caused by climate change could ultimately expose thousands of people to hazardous chemicals at San Francisco’s biggest redevelopment project — and the city is unprepared for the risks, according to a new grand jury report.

San Francisco plans to build housing units, commercial spaces and parks in low-lying areas of the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, which hugs the bay in southeastern San Francisco. The project is the city’s biggest redevelopment effort since the 1906 earthquake.

Yet the San Francisco civil grand jury report warns that groundwater could carry dangerous buried substances to the surface as the water table rises at the site, which was contaminated decades ago with heavy metals, volatile organic compounds and radioactive substances. The result could be catastrophic “for health, for environmental safety, and for the resilience of future development,” the report notes.

“There’s so much at stake in the Hunters Point Shipyard,” jury foreperson Michael Hofman said in a statement. “But inside the City, only a tiny program in the Department of Public Health is engaged with the cleanup. The City isn’t prepared to respond when things go wrong. And the City isn’t devoting the right resources to anticipate problems like groundwater rise at the Shipyard, while there’s still time to do something” . . . .

An official with the Navy, which is managing the cleanup of the 638-acre federal Superfund site, said the Navy “is aware of the report but has not had an opportunity to review it.” The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, one of multiple agencies overseeing those efforts, said it is “currently reviewing the entire report.”

The report follows a series of investigations by The Chronicle that exposed hazards and oversight failures at the shipyard that have risked the health of San Franciscans for years. The newspaper found that city oversight of the project has been particularly weak, revealing that the health department has often dismissed health concerns while simultaneously helping real estate developers to sell shipyard homes. Other Bay Area outlets have reported on costly mistakes and fraud in cleanup procedures . . . .

For decades now, the Navy and EPA have been trying to clean up the shipyard, which sits almost flush with the bay, before transferring the land to the city for development.

But the cleanup strategy was designed when scientists understood far less about climate change and its impacts. And the agencies running and overseeing the cleanup have not evolved with the science, the grand jury found.

The cleanup is premised on the Navy’s claim that it is safe to leave contaminants buried in the soil throughout the site. The Navy often places a layer of dirt or other barriers atop the pollution and relies on what it calls “institutional controls” — warnings and monitoring programs — to protect people.

But climate change could make those contaminants mobile. According to recent scientific research, as seas rise, ocean water will also push up nearby groundwater.

Existing housing at the shipyard sits on a hill and is not likely to be impacted. But future development, including parts of the shipyard where the city plans to build homes and shared parkland, will happen in lower areas. The report points out that high tides or floods there may carry dangerous chemicals, toxic metals or trace amounts of radioactive materials “right up to the surface, onto the sidewalks where children play.”

The jury found that the current site plans do not take these risks into account: The Navy has not adapted its cleanup strategy to account for rising groundwater and the hazardous substances it could contain; the EPA has not performed studies; and the city has not asked federal agencies to address the threat.

The grand jury recommended that San Francisco development and health officials hire expert scientists to make a comprehensive map of groundwater at the shipyard and forecast how groundwater would likely rise as the sea level does. Depending on the predictions, the report suggests, the city might want to revise its development plans.

The grand jury also recommended that the Board of Supervisors create a permanent Hunters Point Shipyard Cleanup Oversight Committee to monitor the cleanup and hold the Navy, the EPA and state regulators accountable.



https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/...t-17213556.php
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All the features coming to San Francisco's forthcoming waterfront park
Sam Moore, SFGATE
Sep. 20, 2022

A project to transform a defunct boatyard into a waterfront park linking 64 acres of open space along the city's often-overlooked far southeast corner finally broke ground Wednesday, after 10 years of planning.

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And something is finally being done: Wednesday's groundbreaking ceremony marked the start of a process that will turn 900 Innes into India Basin Waterfront Park, complete with walkways, gardens and wildlife habitats. At $140 million, it will cost more than any other park project in the city's history.

“This is a historic moment for San Francisco and the Bayview-Hunters Point community,” said Mayor London Breed on Wednesday. “India Basin Waterfront Park will transform a neglected shoreline into a modern, world class park that reflects and benefits the people who live here now, and for generations to come.”

India Basin Waterfront Park will connect the two parks that border it – India Basin Shoreline Park and India Basin Open Space – and close a gap in the bike and pedestrian path that will eventually stretch from the Embarcadero to Candlestick Point. According to a press release from the Recreation and Park Department, the park will feature gathering docks, lighted paths and walkways, a plaza for public events and farmers' markets, and "an ecological education area where visitors can observe tidal mudflat habitats and native birds through small paths, decks, and viewing platforms."

Construction of the park is the second phase of the project. The first phase was an 18-month cleanup and remediation of the area, made necessary by debris and contaminants left behind during more than a century of boat building and ship repair. According to a document published by the city's planning department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, investigations conducted at 900 Innes revealed heavy soil contamination by copper, zinc and lead.
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Old Posted Jan 23, 2023, 1:33 AM
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was by there today









the current division between the existing park and the new part. the existing one will be made over and connected to the other







also a connection to Heron's Head Park just to the north

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