Citizens Advisory Committee Approves Design for Community Built Homes at Hunters Point Shipyard
San Francisco Sentinel | July 16, 2009
The Hunters Point Shipyard Citizens Advisory Committee (CAC) has approved the designs for the next 157 homes to be built by community developers on a hilltop parcel overlooking the former Navy base. read more>>
No More Delays in Revitalization Efforts
Gavin Newsom | San Francisco Chronicle | July 12, 2009
With fresh headlines and new speculation in recent days about whether the 49ers will stay or go, the big picture in San Francisco remains the revitalization of the Bayview, Hunters Point and Candlestick Point neighborhoods. read more>>
49ers need to stay true to San Francisco
Carmen Policy | San Francisco Chronicle | July 12, 2009
The 49ers will always be synonymous with San Francisco.
From the gritty, die-hard plays at Kezar Stadium to the absolute football magic the team created at Candlestick Park, the San Francisco 49ers are inextricably linked to the city by the bay. read
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The Man Who Cried Dust Christopher Muhammad's fight with Lennar over toxic dust has resulted in a restraining order against him, an accusation that he's a shakedown artist, and grudging respect from his rivals.
Lauren Smiley | SF Weekly | June 30, 2009
When Nation of Islam minister Christopher Muhammad walked into a community meeting at the Bayview Opera House this spring, everyone knew he'd come to yell at people who don't agree with him. For the past three years, Muhammad and his followers had noisily criticized a housing development at the old Hunters Point Shipyard, which they contended was exposing children at the Nation's nearby private school, the Muhammad University of Islam, to toxic dust. What no one anticipated was that the night would end with someone getting a restraining order against him. read
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Land Deals Help Builders Stay Alive
Michael Corkery | The Wall Street Journal | June 22, 2009
In Indio, a small city east of Los Angeles, the supply of foreclosed houses for sale is plentiful. Even so, work crews are finishing a batch of new homes for Lennar Corp.
While the recession wiped out many small builders, mortgage lenders and homeowners, the nation's biggest builders have hung on, in part through favorable land deals, loan agreements and tax strategies. read
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Plan would transform parkland
John Upton | San Francisco Examiner| June 3, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO — As California lawmakers consider shuttering state parks, San Francisco officials are pledging that state-owned parkland and nearby shorelines in The City’s southeast will be restored into parks and native habitat. read
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Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point: A Dream Deferred is Not a Dream Denied
City Brights | Michael Cohen | SFGate | May 29, 2009
Imagine that the City of San Francisco could build the largest park in San Francisco since Golden Gate Park in the Bayview Hunters Point - where there is not nearly enough parks and open space - right on the water without spending any City money. read more >>
Don’t halt the dream of a Hunters Point rebirth
San Francisco Examiner | April 26, 2009
After years of community-led discussion, the first new homes are set to take shape at the Hunters Point Shipyard in the coming months. We are finally turning the corner in this neighborhood by turning abandoned land into parks, jobs and much-needed affordable housing read more >>
Demolition plan turns into rehab effort for art studios
San Francisco Examiner | March 18, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO – Officials are scrambling to quickly spend a $2.1 million grant on a former Navy fallout shelter at Hunters Point Shipyard, after artists who lease studios in the dilapidated building objected to its demolition. read more >>
Shipyard cleanup continues
Robert Selna | San Francisco Chronicle City Insider | March 31, 2009
Despite the tough economic times, funding for the on-going effort to remove industrial toxins and other pollutants from the Hunters Point shipyard appear to be in the hopper for the coming year. read more >>
City Insider: Shipyard Living
Robert Selna | San Francisco Chronicle | April 7, 2009
By mid-2011, you might be able to buy a townhome or rent an apartment at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard - if things go according to plan.
Developer Lennar Corp. is working to remake the former Navy base and Candlestick Point into neighborhoods with 10,500 housing units, retail and commercial development, parks and possibly a new football stadium. read more >>
Supervisor Sophie Maxwell Supervisor Maxwell talks about how Prop G will improve transportation, shopping, and job opportunities in both the Bayview and San Francisco as a whole. It will also help keep people here in San Francisco, especially African-Americans. click to listen
Johnnie Carter, former Community College Trustee Speaking about the Kick Off Rally for Yes on G: "Fantastic Event, I think it that it was well-attended and great to have our elected family here..." click to listen More Voices>>
Breaking News:
SF Labor Council Supports Prop. G, Opposes Prop. F
The San Francisco Labor Council, representing 150 unions and 100,000 men and women who work under union contracts in the City, announced its support for Proposition G and opposition to Proposition F this week at a press conference. read more>>
Yes on G, No on F Supporters Turn Out for Early Voting at City Hall
Yes on G, No on F supporters rallied together in San Francisco's Civic Center for early voting on Tuesday, May 13. Voters, many of them young people who grew up in the City, waited in a long line on a remarkably warm day to cast their ballots at City Hall. If Proposition G passes, it will speed the long-awaited cleanup of toxins at the Shipyard, which was welcome news to voter Cheri Newton. "I personally used to work on the Shipyard at the Golden Gate Railroad Museum," she reported. "And it was filthy. It was horrible. I was scared to go to work in the morning because I didn't know what was back there." read more>>
Yes on G, No on F Rally Draws Hundreds
On April 26, hundreds of Bayview-Hunters Point residents packed the Marketplace Fellowship Church on Innes Avenue, just down the road from the abandoned Shipyard. People took time out of their bright Saturday mornings to hear community leaders and politicians argue in favor of Proposition G--and against Proposition F--on this June's ballot. read
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After Decades of Neglect, New Hope for Double Rock Housing Tenants
As part of the plan to provide additional affordable housing in the Bayview, the Jobs, Parks and Housing Initiative calls for the complete rebuilding of the Double Rock housing project, giving new hope to the low-income tenants who have endured decades of high crime, poverty and neglect. read
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Plan Aims to Accelerate Environmental Clean-Up of Shipyard
A chief aim of the Jobs, Parks and Housing Initiative
is to accelerate the clean-up of the Hunters Point Shipyard. The shipyard
will be cleaned under the close supervision of the Environmental Protection Agency, state environmental
agencies and the San Francisco Department of Health. read
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Abandoned and neglected shipyard set for renewal
June ballot measure would bring jobs, housing & shipyard clean-up
Since the Navy closed the Hunters Point Shipyard in
1974, this once-thriving economic engine has stood abandoned and neglected.
Today, that could all change—with a new plan to clean up and renew
the Shipyard that could provide jobs, parks and housing to the neighboring
Bayview and the City of San Francisco. read
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Prop G Wins Big
Robert Selna | San Francisco Chronicle | June 4, 2008
San Francisco voters appeared to overwhelmingly approve Proposition G on Tuesday, endorsing plans for a major housing and commercial development at the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point and also keeping alive hope of holding on to the 49ers football team. read more >>
Choosing a future for San Francisco's Bayview
Robert Selna | San Francisco Chronicle | May 22, 2008
It would be the biggest single redevelopment project in San Francisco since World War II, a transformation of a neighborhood that has languished for decades as renewal plans have come and gone. On June 3, voters will be faced with two ballot measures focused on remaking 720 acres at the old Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and adjoining Candlestick Point, an area about the size of New York's Central Park and twice as big as Treasure Island. read more >>
Lennar attracts major backer for S.F. projects
James Temple | San Francisco Chronicle | February 5, 2008
Lennar Corp., the busiest housing developer in San Francisco,
landed a significant investor for its proposed mega-projects at Hunters
Point Shipyard, Candlestick Point and Treasure Island. read more >>
Initiative filed seeking approval of Bayview project
Bonnie Eslinger | The Examiner | November 21, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO - Proposed language for a ballot initiative that would seek city voter approval for the redevelopment of Candlestick Point and the Hunters Point Shipyard — which could include a new stadium for the San Francisco 49ers — was filed Tuesday.read more >>
Lennar Mentors Bayview Hunters Point businesses
San Francisco Sentinel | July 28, 2007
Lennar’s Mentorship-Protégé Program
celebrated the partnership of mentoring firm Ranger Pipeline with two
Bayview Hunters Point businesses: Oliver Transbay Construction and Let’s
Get Busy Contractors, Thursday at Jewel restaurant in Bayview Hunters
Point. read more >>
