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^^thats too bad...such prime real estate in one of the worlds great cities
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Lennar's Bayview Megaproject: Little Help Please?



A screwed real estate market and apparently rising construction costs (really?) are making it difficult for Lennar's Bayview-Hunters Point megaproject to get off the ground. Lucky for them, there's, incredibly, bailout money from the state floating around in a fund somewhere, just waiting to be snatched up by developers of infill housing projects. The fund was created by voters in 2006 for just that purpose, and should Lennar come in contact with it, the timing would be just swell. The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency today is voting on an authorization to ask the state for a $14.6 million injection to start building the 1,200 homes slated to be part of Phase I. C'monnnnnn free money!
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If you haven't seen it yet, it's worth downloading the Hunters Point Shipyard-Candlestick Point Urban Design Plan here at http://oewd.org/Development_Projects..._Shipyard.aspx

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The UN is setting up shop on Parcel C with a global warming/cleantech center. That's a nice pickup!

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S.F., U.N. partner on global warming center
Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, July 30, 2009

San Francisco's Hunters Point Shipyard - so toxic it's listed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a Superfund site - will be the future home of a U.N.-sponsored think tank to study solutions to global warming and other environmental crises plaguing the planet.

Due to open in 2012, the facility is envisioned by Mayor Gavin Newsom's administration as the centerpiece of a new green technology campus, akin to Mission Bay serving as a biotech hub.

The 80,000-square-foot United Nations Global Compact Center will include office space for academics and scientists, an incubator to foster green tech start-ups, and a conference center.

The center is expected to cost $20 million. Lennar Corp., the developer partnering with the city to rebuild large swaths of the shipyard and Candlestick Point, will donate the land and infrastructure. The city hopes the remainder of the funds will come from corporate sponsorship, state and federal grants and foundation money.

"Locating the U.N. Global Compact Center in San Francisco will reinforce our city's commitment to global justice and sustainability," Newsom said in a statement.

Michael Cohen, director of the Mayor's Office of Economic Development, said San Francisco is the perfect site for a green tech campus because the Bay Area is university-rich, heavily tech-driven and has a wealth of venture capitalists willing to invest in startups.

He said the one missing piece was a brand name anchor - like UC San Francisco at Mission Bay - and that the United Nations provides it in spades.

The announcement comes weeks after the Santa Clara City Council approved financing for a 49ers stadium - but Cohen said the U.N. center is not meant to be a big-name replacement if San Francisco dumps its plan to build a new stadium at the shipyard.

"The opportunity to establish the Hunters Point Shipyard as a major job generator and as a place where environmental problems can be addressed may be more important than a football stadium," Cohen said.

The partnership between San Francisco and the United Nations dates to June 26, 1945, when the U.N. Charter was signed at the city's War Memorial Veterans Building. Four years ago, mayors from around the world gathered at City Hall to sign the U.N. Global Compact, a set of 21 urban environmental accords. San Francisco and Milwaukee are the only two American cities that signed the compact.

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Gavin Power, deputy director of the U.N. Global Compact, said San Francisco's long track record of environmental awareness makes it the perfect spot for the United Nations' first center to study global warming.

"We hope it will be a vibrant laboratory bringing together leading academics, researchers, social entrepreneurs and others who will collaborate and work on solutions," Power said.

He said the United Nations is well positioned to take whatever technological innovations emerge from the center and spread them worldwide.

Dan Adler is the president of California Clean Energy Fund, a nonprofit venture capital fund that invests in early-stage clean energy technologies. He said the industry is so heavily regulated that innovation can sometimes be hampered, and having key players working in close proximity is critical.

"You have to have more players at the table to make the technology work - you have to have regulators, you have to have legislators, you have to have entrepreneurs, large-scale capital and the innovation community itself," Adler said.

ransforming bayview

The green tech campus will be built on Parcel C, which sits along the waterfront on the shipyard's eastern edge. The U.S. Navy is cleaning up the toxic shipyard and transferring the cleaned parcels to the city. The entire development project, including the U.N. center, must be approved by various city commissions and the Board of Supervisors.

Malik Looper, executive director of the Hunters Point nonprofit Literacy for Environmental Justice that works with neighborhood youth, said the U.N. center sounds like a fine idea, but he's more concerned that the land it's built on be thoroughly cleaned first. The Navy has said it will cap some parts of the land rather than fully excavate the toxics, which Looper said may be insufficient.

"The big issue in my mind is resolving the matter around what standards will be adhered to in terms of the cleanup, and until that matter is resolved, it's hard for me to be excited about a press release about a potential partnership," he said.

Cohen said the Navy will clean the land so it's safe to live and work there and city officials are satisfied with the process. The campus will help create jobs for Bayview-Hunters Point residents, he said, and local hiring requirements will be put in place.

However, Saul Bloom, executive director of Arc Ecology, an environmental nonprofit that helps communities close and clean up military bases, said the jobs can't go to neighborhood residents without the proper training.

"We can't lose sight of the fact we're trying to provide jobs for people who are in Bayview-Hunters Point, a substantial number of whom don't have that skill set and need to get there," he said.


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They should build that UN thing 2" above the current high-tide level to really put the pressure on them
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I hope all that commie megablock-appearing architecture is just massing models and not anything like what it will really look like.
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I hope all that commie megablock-appearing architecture is just massing models and not anything like what it will really look like.
Though the irony of commie-megablock architecture on a Cold War military site would be pretty cool.
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Hunters Point Report Drops, 49ers Stadium Still in the Works
Friday, November 13, 2009, by Andy J. Wang


One giant leap forward for Lennar-kind: the Hunters Point/Candlestick redevelopment's draft environmental impact report for Phase II went online yesterday. The project, which encompasses a total of about 790 acres in the southeastern portion of the city, is so huge it's about twice the size of Treasure Island, which incidentally is also supposed to get redeveloped by Lennar. Phase II follows the comparative drop in the bucket of Phase I, in which the 247 condos as first described in April and in another render reveal just a couple weeks ago belong. The impetus behind the massive redevelopment: pumping life back into the southeastern portions of the city (cough: Bayview) via 10,500 homes and an infusion of 24,465 residents with which to jelly-fill those donuts. And still key to this very plan: a 49ers stadium, located in Hunters Point rather than its current Candlestick spot . . . .
Source (with more pics, esp. of the never-to-be-built stadium): http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2009/1...eader_comments
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Lennar looks to build after lengthy delay
San Francisco Business Times - by J.K. Dineen

Lennar’s plan to start housing construction in the Hunters Point Shipyard is at least six months behind schedule as constricted capital markets have forced the developer to scramble to find financing.

Lennar Executive Vice President Kofi Bonner said the company is engaged in promising conversations with both the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust and Citibank on a loan that could make construction possible. Work on the first 88 homes was supposed to start in January, according to statements Lennar executives made in September of 2009. By now the developer had hoped to have 88 homes under construction while gearing up to break ground on the next 159 units. The first 88 units will cost about $28 million, and the next 159 homes will cost about $40 million in hard construction costs.

“The capital markets have dried up — the recession has certainly hit the lending market,” said Bonner. “But we have a great deal of interest from a lender and we hope to finalize the deal. Within the next month or so we’ll be able to say definitely that we will start construction on a certain date.”

Efforts to nail down financing come as Lennar faces a tough San Francisco Board of Supervisors vote this summer on phase two of the sprawling redevelopment of Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point.

The first phase consists of about 1,400 homes. The much larger second phase would include 10,500 homes, 3.7 million square feet of commercial space, a performing arts theater and an artists’ colony.

The board will weigh in on the project’s environmental impact report, which the Planning Commission and the board of the Redevelopment Agency certified on June 3 . . . .
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010, by Andrew Wietstock

The final score was 8-3 yea, with a somewhat predictable contingent of Mar, Daly, and Avalos voting no. While this may seem like an environmental green light for Lennar, as well as a minor triumph, Board President David Chiu ensured that the Board will revisit the topic on July 27, when the Board considers a number of eleventh hour amendments. Chiu proposed these amendments in an effort to make the EIR more palatable, giving the Board more direct control over the clean-up of certain sites, design of the bridge over Yosemite Slough, require funding for job training for local residents, and $250,000 from Lennar for early expansion at the Southeast Health Center.

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It got a "sort of" approval. That's something, I guess.
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The article in the Chronicle paints a rosier picture...

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Hunters Point shipyard plan wins key approval

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, but the surprisingly strong 8-3 vote in favor of the redevelopment plan shows the support is there, said Sophie Maxwell, the force behind the project that supporters say will transform her Bayview-area district.
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Both supporters and opponents of the project vowed to craft amendments designed to change parts of the redevelopment plan when it returns to the board later this month, but Maxwell isn't worried.

"I expect that everything is going to pass," she said. "There might be some changes, but the core values are going to stay."

Even some of the project's opponents suggested the effort over the next two weeks will be to improve the plan rather than torpedo it.

"The EIR is behind us and I'm not going to continue to raise concerns about the cleanup" of toxic substances on the former base, said Supervisor Eric Mar, who joined supervisors Chris Daly and John Avalos in voting against approval of the environmental impact report. "I want to make sure that we have the strongest enforcement we can make to ensure that the developer follows through on the promises made to the community."

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Love the design, the idea of getting away from the auto, and the new niners stadium, but I HATE the idea of demolishing Candlestick Park.
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^Have you never been to Candlestick Park? That disgusting place should have been torn down a decade ago. It might have some history attached to it, but it's woefully outdated, has the legacy design mistakes of having both football and baseball played there, and is almost completely inaccessible from the rest of the city. Good riddance.
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^Just dig up the eastern end of the north end zone and move it to the new stadium. The rest can be demolished, but that patch of grass is sacred.
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SF approves landmark Hunters Point redevelopment plan

SF approves landmark Hunters Point redevelopment plan
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
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SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco supervisors today gave final approval to a landmark redevelopment project in the city's economically depressed Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood.

This evening's decision marked the legislative conclusion of several extended and at times contentious public hearings on the plan in recent months.

The proposed 720-acre project on the site of the former Hunters Point U.S. naval shipyard would add 10,500 residential units, nearly a third of which would be priced for low-income residents; 320 acres of parkland and open space; retail and commercial space; and transit improvements. It would also include the rebuilding of the Alice Griffith public housing complex.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom praised the board's decision, saying the city controller had estimated the project would raise billions of dollars for the city and create up to 12,000 direct and 13,000 indirect jobs.

"This is a proud and historic day for all San Francisco and for all who have worked for years to achieve this milestone," he said in a statement.

The shipyard area is a federal Superfund site contaminated by toxic waste, of which the U.S. Navy is overseeing an ongoing cleanup.

Some residents have expressed concern about the health effects of living at the site and about whether the contaminants can be fully removed. Others have worried about developer Lennar Corp. fulfilling its obligations to the area and its residents. Environmental groups objected to a plan to build a bridge over a sensitive wetland habitat.

Nevertheless, the overwhelming majority of the supervisors voted in favor today, though several noted the plan had imperfections.

Bayview District Supervisor Sophie Maxwell, who has worked on the project for a decade, called it "a rare opportunity" for the area. She said it would bring public and private investment to "transform a neglected landscape" and deliver affordable housing and jobs.

To critics of the plan worrying the neighborhood will change, Maxwell responded, "It's about time. And a lot of people want that change."

Supervisor Chris Daly faulted the project's affordable housing component as both disingenuous and insufficient. His proposed amendment to require 50 percent of the units be affordable housing was narrowly rejected by the board.

Daly cited that as the reason for his vote against the project. He said he worried about the future of San Francisco's working class and African American communities.

Supervisor John Avalos joined Daly in voting against approval of the project's environmental findings, but HE voted for the rest of a package of measures supporting the project.

The rest of the supervisors voted in favor.

"I'm excited," Maxwell remarked just before the vote. "This city will truly be one, from one hill to the other hill, it will be the same."

Michael Cohen, director of the Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development, said the project "is the direct result of the very best kind of community planning." He said the redevelopment represents "one of the broadest and deepest community benefit projects in the country," as opposed to "more of the status quo" for Bayview residents.

Cohen said the project is expected to add 10,000 permanent jobs and 1,000 construction jobs each year, as well as bring more than $350 million annually to the city's economy.

Supervisors David Chiu, Ross Mirkarimi, David Campos and Daly today offered more than a dozen last-minute amendments to the proposal.

Those approved included a provision to require Board of Supervisors approval for substantive changes to the redevelopment plan.

Others strengthened cleanup oversight and requirements for local hiring and workforce development.

"This is a new beginning for the Hunters Point shipyard," Chiu said. "This is a new beginning for the southeast neighborhoods. Frankly, this is a new beginning for San Francisco."

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Love the design, the idea of getting away from the auto, and the new niners stadium, but I HATE the idea of demolishing Candlestick Park.
Is the new 49ers stadium still even a part of the redevelopment? Considering Santa Clara voters already approved taxing themselves to build the new stadium there, I thought the move to the South Bay was pretty much a done deal?
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Is the new 49ers stadium still even a part of the redevelopment? Considering Santa Clara voters already approved taxing themselves to build the new stadium there, I thought the move to the South Bay was pretty much a done deal?
It is... but SF just won't admit it to themselves yet

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There are still more hurdles, but the SC vote was the big one. The Yorks still need to come up with the rest of the funding needed to build it, part of which I believe is hoped to be a contribution from the league. The league's new stadium fund was exhausted awhile ago and a new one hasn't yet been put in place. I'm also not sure where the negotiations with Cedar Fair stand for using that land. The city owns it, but Cedar Fair still has the lease.
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