[CPEO-BIF] "Developer hopes to reenergize former Potrero Hill power plant site, " San Francisco, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Megaprojects: Developer hopes to reenergize former Potrero Hill power plant site
 

San Francisco Business Times (CA)
April 29, 2016

The Potrero power plant had been used for ship building and repair, foundries, sugar refining and barrel manufacturing for the past century before shutting down in 2011. It is now slated for a 21-acre mixed-use development.

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With its location near San Francisco’s Pier 70 and India Basin developments, the scarred 21-acre site of the closed Potrero Power Plant is a hot development property. District Development is now talking to neighborhood groups as the next step in entitling the site for about 3 million square feet of mixed-use space. Residential development had been banned by former owner PG&E on the site when it traded hands, but PG&E removed the ban.

The developer is also planning temporary uses to activate the site before starting construction. Environmental cleanup remains one of the site’s biggest issues, and the cleanup of the land’s oil contamination is in progress. The power plant was shut down in 2011. But that hasn’t dimmed neighborhood groups’ support of the power plant’s most distinctive feature - the steam stack, which the groups hope to keep on the site as a part of the southeastern waterfront’s history.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/print-edition/2016/04/29/sf-potrero-power-plant-district-development-site.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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