[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Hunters Point Shipyard (CA) "difficulty in hiring small businesses, spending in neighborhood"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Bayview project's minority contractor goals unmet
Main contractor on Hunters Point housing development cites difficulty  
in hiring small businesses, spending in neighborhood

by John Coté
San Francisco Chronicle
October 15, 2013

Kofi Bonner stood on a hillside overlooking the former Hunters Point  
Naval Shipyard on a sunny day this past summer and said his plans for  
a new San Francisco neighborhood would also benefit the surrounding  
community.

"You should know that we in Lennar have always believed the best of  
the Bayview, and we have therefore placed our resources alongside our  
belief," Bonner, president of Lennar Urban, told city leaders in June  
at the groundbreaking for the first of 10,500 planned new homes at  
the shipyard.

Mayor Ed Lee was even more forceful about lifting up the downtrodden  
southeast corner of the city.

…

So far it hasn't fully happened, according to figures from the main  
contractor on the development, who says that it's not from a lack of  
trying.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/Bayview-project-s-minority- 
contractor-goals-unmet-4895479.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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