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The Port of San Francisco made a public announcement of its decision to build affordable housing on Seawall Lot 322-1 at a public meeting of the Port Commission in November 2011.

Since that time the Port has been relying on public meetings of NEWAG (Northeast Waterfront Advisory Group) to disclose plans being made for this major enterprise on a seawall lot declared to be “useless for Public Trust purposes” under State legislation, SB 815 (then Senator Carole Migden), years ago, according to NEWAG. Continue Reading→

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To read Part 1 of this series, click here.

For some 30 years the Embarcadero Freeway–elevated and double-decked–bestrode the northeast waterfront.  Four-lane lower Broadway was notable as the eastern entrance to North Beach, Telegraph Hill and beyond.

When the Loma Prieta earthquake occurred in October 1989, it wasn’t the worst one the city had ever experienced, but the Freeway did sustain damage enough to require demolition.  That took place in 1991 and paved the way for greatly increased development of the historic waterfront in the 1990s, and is still under way in this century. Continue Reading→

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Submitted by Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association board member David Albert. Information was obtained from John Doll of the Port of San Francisco and John Oldefendt and Svenja Stroehla of Metro Shore Services.

David and Marcy Albert did some research into the types of events that will be scheduled for Pier 27 beginning this fall and learned that the majority of events will be corporate dinner or cocktail types: Christmas parties, award ceremonies and corporate galas, weddings, small trade shows, non-profit fund raisers, etc. Continue Reading→