SAN FRANCISCO | Hunter's Point

[ElDuderino]

Executive Park residential development OKd in S.F.

Will Kane, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, May 6, 2011

Called the little sibling of the larger development at Hunters Point Shipyard, a plan to build 1,600 new residential units in a triangular area tucked between Candlestick Park and Highway 101 was approved unanimously by the Planning Commission Thursday.

Developers and the city have been mulling proposals for the desolate area known as the Executive Park since the late 1970s. But no plan gained traction until last summer, when the city approved a huge development at the nearby former naval shipyard.

The $2 billion investment in the shipyard project - which will bring 24,000 new residents to the area - will create the community and infrastructure that will enable the smaller Executive Park development to succeed, said Jonathan Scharfman of Universal Paragon Corp., one of the project's developers.

In fact, the city even slowed work on the Executive Park plan so it would be approved after the Hunters Point project, he said.

"This is a piece of a larger vision for a new residential gateway to the city of San Francisco," he said. "We don't feel like a stepchild; we feel like we're part of something larger."

Eventually, the roughly 70-acre site, which is now mostly parking lots and temporary office space, could have more than 2,800 residential units in a number of towers, some up to 240 feet tall. A patchwork of condominiums has already been built and will remain.

The project faced little opposition, because the area does not currently provide much value to the city, commissioners said.

"This is one of those rare places where because of the changing economy, we're realizing the suburban business park just doesn't work anymore," said Kathrin Moore, a commissioner notoriously skeptical of developers' promises.

An important consideration for the development will be creating a sense of community in the desolate, blustery area, boxed in by Highway 101, Bayview Hill, Candlestick Park and the bay.

To that end, commissioners approved the project on the condition that the full Board of Supervisors, who will hear the project next, consider moving one of the 16-story towers east, away from the freeway.

Moore said she didn't want residents stuck with a view looking directly onto the freeway.

The neighborhood will have a center away from the busy traffic, Scharfman said.

"It will have a neighborhood town center so people's day-to-day needs for a neighborhood grocery can be met without getting into a car," he added.

The development will also be a roughly 10-minute walk from the nearby Caltrain station and a quick bus ride to the Balboa Park BART station.

"There's a strong, strong business right now in transporting workers who want to live in San Francisco to their jobs in Silicon Valley," Scharfman said.

Espanola Jackson, a resident of the Bayview neighborhood, said she was pleased to see the project move forward.

"It is important because of the fact that it's just an empty slot right now and they want to come in and make the area more beautiful," she said. "We're always last on the city's list to change things. Maybe that has changed."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...BUBR.DTL&tsp=1

[Gordo]

^I don't really have a strong feeling one way or the other on the Executive Park proposal, but this quote is pretty absurd:

"There's a strong, strong business right now in transporting workers who want to live in San Francisco to their jobs in Silicon Valley," Scharfman said.

I really don't think that many folks working in Silicon Valley will commute to live there, because in spite of it having a San Francisco address, it's not really "San Francisco," or some place that people will value a two hour daily commute to live in. I would imagine that it will mostly be folks working in SF or northern San Mateo County that end up living there, probably quite a few close by at Oyster Point.

[San Frangelino]

A bit of good news today for fans of the Hunter's Point/ Candlestick

Hunters Point redevelopment given OK to progress
John Coté, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Click here for full article :http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...pe=newsbayarea

A San Francisco judge has tossed out most of a legal challenge to the controversial plan to convert the shuttered Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and nearby Candlestick Point into a new neighborhood with more than 10,500 homes, clearing the way for work to begin on the project.

[CyberEric]

Seems like very good news indeed. Thanks for posting.

[San Frangelino]

Here's a rendering of the Executive Park Redevelopment Plan, just around the corner from Hunter's Point.

It came from http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2011/0...e_who_wait.php

[1977]

One more step forward:

Read more at the San Francisco Examiner: http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/2011...#ixzz1Y8rujZRe

Redevelopment of San Francisco's Hunters Point clears court hurdle
By: Amy Crawford | 09/15/11 10:52 PM
Examiner Staff Writer

San Francisco can go forward with the redevelopment of the Hunters Point Shipyard after a San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled in favor of The City in an environmental lawsuit.

Judge Ernest Goldsmith found that the report complied with California law. However, he said that if The City authorizes an early transfer of any property on the site from the Navy to the developer, further environmental review would be required. That leaves the Navy in charge of cleanup.

[CyberEric]

Great news! Thanks!

[San Frangelino]

Some news from The Chronicle
Click to read the rest of the article
http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2...l-recognition/

Hunters Point redevelopment project gets national recognition
Posted By: jwildermuth ( Email ) | Nov 14 at 7:30 am

The local folks who have been fighting for more than a decade about the future of the Hunters Point shipyard redevelopment project have always known that it’s a big deal, but now they have national confirmation.

The $8 billion, 700-acre project has been selected as one of three “Transformative Investments in the United States” by the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution.
“San Francisco’s shipyard project is both physically and economically transformative for the Bay Area, and globally significant,” said Bruce Katz, a vice president of the public policy organization. “The effort is exceptional in its scale and scope by seamlessly integrating a new clean-tech innovation district and broader urban revitalization.”

[CyberEric]

^Are you talking about NY's Hunter's Point? This thread is for San Francisco's.

[San Frangelino]

Originally Posted by CyberEric

^Are you talking about NY's Hunter's Point? This thread is for San Francisco's.

Nope...that news is from the San Francisco Chronicle about San Francisco's Hunters Point redevelopment. Click this link below to clear up any confusion. It will direct you to the article I was quoting.http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2...l-recognition/

Here's another related link from the city's website http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?page=606

[CyberEric]

Hmmm, don't know why I thought that. Thanks!

[minesweeper]

Lennar may turn to China to jump-start the Hunter's Point project:

Chinese in Talks to Fund U.S. Homes
State Bank in Talks to Provide Lennar $1.7 Billion for Two Long-Stalled Projects
By DINNY MCMAHON and ROBBIE WHELAN, June 25, 2012

Lennar Corp., one of the U.S.'s largest home builders, is in talks with the China Development Bank for approximately $1.7 billion in capital to jump-start two long-delayed San Francisco projects that would transform two former naval bases into large-scale housing developments, according to people familiar with the discussions.

The negotiations aren't final and the financing arrangement could still fall through. But if completed, the deal would reflect a changing dynamic between the U.S. and Chinese economies, as an American company turns to China for help funding a long-delayed and partially publicly funded project that otherwise wouldn't get done.

The developments, Treasure Island and Hunters Point Shipyard, also have the potential to alter San Francisco's housing market by providing nearly 20,000 new homes, a sports arena and millions of square feet of office and retail space in a market that is land-constrained and has had limited new construction. The city has committed hundreds of millions of dollars, in the form of tax-increment bonds, to the projects, which in total are expected to cost $10.5 billion over the next few decades.

[San Frangelino]

Here are some new Hunter's Point images I found while browsing the web. They come from he Hunters Point Redevelopment website called The Shipyard .

[SPIREINTHEHOLE!]

Yippee!

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranci...roves-17b.html

China Development Bank approves $1.7B loan for Hunters Point, Treasure Island

San Francisco Business Times by J.K. Dineen, Reporter
Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 3:40pm PST - Last Modified: Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 4:59pm PST

The loan committee of the China Development Bank has approved a $1.7 billion loan to build new neighborhoods and upward of 20,000 units of housing on the Hunters Point Shipyard, Candlestick Point and Treasure Island.

The agreement, confirmed by sources familiar with the negotiations, is a crucial step in longstanding plans to build new neighborhoods on the two mothballed San Francisco military facilities, which represent San Francisco's largest development opportunities.

The loan will provide $1 billion for Hunters Point Shipyard, where the first 1,400 homes could be under construction by the first quarter of next year. Treasure Island, which is at least a year behind the Hunters Point project, will get $700 million...

[Suffice]

Pretty boring project in my opinon. There's no interaction with the shore, and the architecture looks corporate and boring. I hope they re-vamp the urban design in a major way

[fflint]

We should probably bring this thread back to life, now that Candlestick Park is officially offline.

[homebucket]

India Basin Development Activity In San Francisco Planning Department

BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON APRIL 27, 2021







A recent planning application has shown activity for the mixed-use India Basin masterplan around 700 Innes Avenue in Bayview/Hunters Point, San Francisco. The Phase planning application has been submitted for review, stating that the multi-phase project will provide up to 1,575 new residential units, 209,100 square feet of commercial/retail space, 24.5 acres of open space, and parking for 1,800 vehicles and 1,575 bicycles. India Basin is a joint development between BUILD and the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department.

The entire project is expected to develop over three and a half million square feet, of which over a million square feet will be publicly accessible open parks. A quarter of all houses, or around 394 units, will be subsidized to be affordable for the San Francisco housing market. Buildings will vary between two and fourteen stories tall, with a maximum height around 160 feet above street level.

https://sfyimby.com/2021/04/india-ba...epartment.html

[crazy amy b]

zombie thread!

[timbad]

^ wow, I'll say. but good to have one for this area in general.

maybe it would helpful to note that there are four or five somewhat independent projects going on in the general area of this extreme SE corner of San Francisco, which maybe can all be grouped here (I have no problem with that, in any case). sort of moving around the shoreline which shapes the area, clockwise from the top in this old image:



- Hunter's View, a HOPE SF project corresponding roughly with 'Middle point Street Beautification' in the image

- what is 'India Basin Shoreline' in the image, which includes the project mentioned most recently in the post above, and also a redo of the existing park just to the NW of the project in the post

- what we might call the 'core' of Hunter's Point, the former Navy installation being slowly cleaned up and redeveloped into 'the Shipyard'

- the former Candlestick Park area, whose relation to HP proper can be seen here



- Executive Park, tucked along the southernmost shoreline in the image, mentioned earlier in this thread, and whose status I am unsure about.

there is talk of trying to connect Executive Park better across the freeway with the Schlage Lock/Bayshore Caltrain/Brisbane Baylands area as well

[Busy Bee]

Has there ever been any talk of creating a looping streetcar to connect the waterfront areas with the T line?