San Francisco Chronicle/SF Gate/J.K. Dineen, 3/12/15. "New Hunters Point condos affordable, for S.F."
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| Bay view from each cozy condo |
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| Candlestick Point and Hunters Point Naval Ship Yard |
.... 1st condos to open. Next month... new homeowners to move into the first 88 homes that developer Lennar Urban has constructed at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard. While 88 units won’t put a dent in the city’s housing crisis, they are the first of 10,500 units that will be built over the next two decades on the former Navy facility and the adjacent Candlestick Point, 32 percent of them for low- or middle-income buyers and renters. Construction started on the Alice Griffith housing development this week, which will include public housing and affordable units.
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| "Open space" concept one room, no clutter |
But the market-rate units Lennar is constructing on a north-facing hill overlooking the San Francisco skyline and the industrial waterfront are just one piece of a complex $8 billion neighborhood planned for 700 acres of land that make up the old shipyard and Candlestick Point. The project also includes 300 acres of new and restored parks and 2.5 million square feet of commercial space. Read article.
Reference - Lennar.com/New homes/San Francisco Shipyard. "With the introduction of new infrastructure, state-of-the-art amenities, and modern housing opportunities along the picturesque waterfront, The San Francisco Shipyard affords residents a vibrant new community conveniently situated near downtown San Francisco and the Peninsula. The San Francisco Shipyard delivers a dynamic lifestyle to residents, offering a mix of one-, two-, and three-bedroom contemporary urban flats and townhomes ranging in size from approximately 500 to 1,500 square feet." Also see Lennar/San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Note: photographs/graphics from the Lennar website.
Related blog articles - 21st Century Urban Solutions, 6/29/09, "A history of Bayview-Hunters Point, Part 3: redevelopment or renewal." SF Hog.com/Rob Nicolo, 7/18/14, "The Hunters Point Redevelopment Ground Report," (this article includes some good graphics of the area and the development). For prior Fix Pacifica blog reprint articles, search: "Candlestick development."
Posted by Kathy Meeh
11 comments:
This is the worst part of San Francisco. But there are enough fools to swallow this load and happily too!
I think this is a lovely area. You are only a target if you are black, young and know of a gangbanger in your family. Everyone else should invest and buy before it is unaffordable.
954 SF is Equal Opportunity, baby. Some will be targets of the cops and others will be targets of some of the targets.
It's very normal and healthy for a city to rehabilitate areas that have fallen into disrepair. Cities all over the world periodically inject new life into abandoned warehouse districts, waterfronts and formerly blighted areas.
Unfortunately for Pacifica we are hamstrung by a group of poverty loving, "I got mines" who throw sand into the gears every time someone wants to improve our physical environment.
They love to gin up phony class wars between rich people and the proletariat by labeling any improvement as gentrification and therefore evil.
These geniuses know everything though so we just have to wait them out until they either die off or move away after filing for bankruptcy.
Thanks guys you've done a brilliant job of ruining our city.
458 Die off or file bankruptcy? Hardly an exclusive club. Gin up? Not a term in common usage. A homage to the great Ape Shall Not Kill Ape? Where'd he go?
458 Pockets of the very rich in eco-correct mansions among the modestly-housed hordes? Harmony, maybe the quarry, Fassler. Sounds like a perfect recipe for class warfare. And more proof that environmental causes are inherently elitist.
You buy a 5 million dollar house and have to drive down a broken down Highway 1 to get to your 5 million dollar house surrounded by 700k shacks falling into disrepair.
But you get the Ocean views? BFD!
It is a BFD!
Ocean views are highly coveted. Pacifica could and should be a beautiful, luxurious state of the art city. We have assets that other cities can only dream about.
Sadly our city is run down and dysfunctional because the poverty lovers have us by the balls with their phony environmental politics and parasitic lawsuits.
9:53
coulda woulda shoulda~!
Absolutely nothing better enhances a 5 million dollar mansion or a unique coastal town than a bloated, overblown, old-fashioned freeway. And, who doesn't love the realtors and their shills whinging about the faux-enviros? Please, wipe up the drool. Epic stuff.
I think it goes without saying that if a master plan for Pacifica were o be developed today, our town would look quite a bit different today than it actually does. For starters, the first few blocks of Linda Mar would not be single family homes, but perhaps something along the lines of a seaside-themed village with shops, restaurants, and maybe condos on the second floor. I'm sure that many others have similar ideas about how their part of Pacifica might have looked if careful planning had been done.
I took the Manor exit tofay and drove south along Palmetto. Couldn't help but notice the RV Park rresplendent with its very own "Little Yellow School Bus" sitting among all the other RVs. Seems that there should be a better use of that property than a quasi-RV park. Can't help but wonder if any of those RVs actually move or if they are just a permanent part of the landscape.
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