[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: "Bechtel gift to help transform Presidio" (of San Francisco, CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bechtel gift to help transform Presidio

by John King
San Francisco Chronicle
September 27, 2013

SAN FRANCISCO -- The largest cash gift in national parks history is  
intended to be the catalyst to create 10 acres of parkland connecting  
the heart of the Presidio to Crissy Field and the bay.

The $25 million from the S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation will fund more  
than half the estimated budget for what is being called Tunnel Top  
Parkland. A new bluff will cover the rebuilt Doyle Drive, allowing  
for an unbroken landscape from Crissy Field's marsh inland to the  
Main Post of the former military base, which now is part of the  
Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

The Bechtel gift, announced Friday, will also be used for youth  
programs at the Crissy Field Center, which sits where the bluff and  
landscape will emerge in 2016 after the new Presidio Parkway opens.

"It's an amazing act of generosity that makes possible the completion  
of one of the most amazing park transformations in the world," said  
Craig Middleton, executive director of the Presidio Trust, which  
manages the forested historic military landscape where the Golden  
Gate Bridge touches down in San Francisco.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Bechtel-gift-to-help-transform- 
Presidio-4849173.php

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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
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