[CPEO-IRF] "Slow cleanup delays Hunters Point project" (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Slow cleanup delays Hunters Point project

Robert Selna
San Francisco Chronicle November 23, 2006

With plans for a Candlestick Point stadium and development all but dead, 
some residents are worried about the future of another project billed as 
a bonanza for the Bayview -- a community for thousands of people at the 
old Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.

Lennar Corp., the developer that would have worked on the stadium 
project with the 49ers, still plans to build 1,600 homes on the 
shipyard, once an economic engine for the neighborhood but now a badly 
polluted Superfund site. However, delays in toxic cleanup have led to 
uncertainties about when offices, stores, parks and possibly more 
housing planned for the 500-acre base will be built.

The company also has decreased the number of rental units and increased 
the number of for-sale condominiums, citing economic pressures that have 
cut into Lennar's bottom line.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/11/23/MNG82MIIEE1.DTL

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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