[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: San Francisco (CA) supervisors to consider Hunters Point Naval Shipyard plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vision for Transforming Hunters Point Comes Before Supervisors

By RICHARD C. PADDOCK
New York Times
April 29, 2010

From the barren hilltop, you can see downtown San Francisco and the Bay 
Bridge, across the bay to Oakland and south to the San Mateo-Hayward 
Bridge. It is the kind of sweeping San Francisco view that could sustain 
million-dollar condominiums.

But this is Hunters Point, where a legacy of toxic waste and poverty has 
meant that change comes slowly.

For 10 years, city officials and the Lennar Corporation, a home builder 
based in Miami, have been preparing a far-reaching plan to replace the 
contaminated Hunters Point Naval Shipyard with one of the largest 
development projects the city has seen.

The $7 billion complex would stretch southwest to Candlestick Park and 
include 10,500 homes, 2.7 million square feet of commercial space and a 
million more of retail space, a performing arts theater and an artists' 
colony.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/us/30sflennar.html?scp=2&sq=Hunters%20Point&st=cse

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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