San Francisco is gearing up for a growth in housing improvement tasks | Information
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Image courtesy Treasure Island Community Development
Even if smaller projects are in limbo due to market uncertainties and astronomical construction costs, the city’s colossal multi-phase projects such as Treasure Island, Mission Rock, Pier 70 and Power Station will be in full swing. Roads are being laid, sidewalks are being poured, trees are being planted, street lamps are being installed and buildings are springing up from the ground. – The San Francisco Chronicle
The city is currently in the process of converting Treasure Island, the man-made grove named after the Robert Louis Stevenson novel and created for the 1939 World’s Fair, into an 8,000-unit residential area with sub-par housing and retail facilities that is expected to house a population of about 20,000 by 2032 despite fears the former U.S. Navy facility is contaminated.
The hope raised by the projects is dampened somewhat by the bureaucratic process behind the development programs which, according to The San Francisco Chronicle, has stalled several other mixed-use and residential initiatives in more developed areas of the city.
“Working people like our nurses, teachers and even the construction workers who build our houses are suffering because we haven’t built enough homes in decades,” Mayor London Breed told the newspaper. “Even as we move on to big projects, we need to make fundamental changes to the way we approve and allow homes in San Francisco so families can afford to stay.”
