[CPEO-MEF] PFAS: The reinvention of Treasure Island, San Francisco, CA

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

The reinvention of this S.F. island is undergoing its first phase — the rest will take decades

By John King, 
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
August 25, 2024

There’s no stranger slice of San Francisco right now than the one that begins 2 miles northeast of the Embarcadero, on Treasure Island.

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You get the picture: The reinvention of the 425-acre island created in the 1930s out of rubble and sand to hold the Golden Gate International Exposition is a work in progress that likely will continue for decades. But the first phase is far enough along that if you’re curious about how urban landscapes emerge and mature, this is the summer to start taking notes. 

The work completed so far includes three residential buildings and the streetscapes along them, as well as the miniature ferry terminal that began service in 2022. Two six-story market-rate housing complexes are sheathed but fully shaped en route to debuting by next summer, around the same time as the bayside park with dead-on views of San Francisco’s downtown skyline and home-shrouded hills. There also are townhomes and condominiums tucked into the slopes of adjacent Yerba Buena Island, as well as Hiroshi Sugimoto’s needle-thin “Point of Infinity” sculpture.  

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For the entire article, see
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/treasure-island-real-estate-19666552.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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