[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Lennar at Hunters Point and Mare Island (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Shipyards developer stays course in bad economy

Robert Selna
San Francisco Chronicle
November 29, 2009


As San Francisco's first naval base redevelopment takes shape, a project 
with notable similarities across the bay has had mixed results, 
indicating how challenging it can be to remake large tracts of 
industrial property as economic cycles ebb and flow.

Like the Hunters Point Shipyard in San Francisco, Vallejo's Mare Island 
Shipyard opened in the mid-1800s, was central to shipbuilding during 
World War II, and developed a symbiotic relationship with its adjacent 
community - the base relied on residents for labor and workers depended 
on the base for their livelihoods.

When each base closed - Hunters Point in 1974 and Mare Island in 1996 - 
the communities confronted intertwined problems related to the land: 
staggering job losses on property whose economic potential was dependent 
on industrial cleanup, new infrastructure and development.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/28/BU2Q1AMU4S.DTL

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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