[CPEO-IRF] Hunters Point (San Francisco, CA) artists

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Artists wary of new 49ers stadium
By Mike Swift
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
March 9, 2007

Sunlight splashes the white walls of David Trachtenberg's Hunters Point 
studio on a brilliant mid-winter afternoon. This has been the abstract 
painter's cherished workplace since he quit his job in December, when, 
at 59, the knowledge hit him: "I cannot not do this."

Outside, beyond the ruins of this polluted Cold War shipyard, San 
Francisco Bay shimmers and the emerald East Bay foothills look 
impossibly close.

"This has completely transformed me," Trachtenberg says of the bright 
corner room where jazz plays quietly. His is one of about 300 such 
studios in one of the nation's largest artist colonies - a collection of 
solitary creative lives that lie in the apparent path of a 
mega-development that could include a new stadium for the San Francisco 
49ers. With San Francisco urging the Navy to accelerate the former 
shipyard's environmental clean-up, the one certainty for Hunters Point 
is that dramatic change is coming - soon.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/sportsheadlines/ci_5394316

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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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