{"id":1863,"date":"2007-05-11T13:30:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T17:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=1863"},"modified":"2007-05-10T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T16:40:38","slug":"san-franciscos-portlands-redevelopment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/05\/11\/san-franciscos-portlands-redevelopment\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco&#8217;s port lands redevelopment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v297\/spmarshall\/Spacing\/SpacingSF3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was in San Francisco just over a week ago, for the first time. One of the many things I did was try out the new T-Third Street light rail line, which fully opened earlier in April. While riding the latest addition to that fine city&#8217;s legacy streetcar system, I happened upon San Francisco&#8217;s waterfront regeneration project.<\/p>\n<p>I write my impressions of San Francisco&#8217;s waterfront redevelopment just as Toronto seeks to do the same with the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/?p=1860\">chosen MVVA proposal<\/a>. There are some differences: San Francisco does not have a river to rehabilitate and revitalize like we do with the Don, and while both areas are disconnected from the rest of the city by elevated expressways, Toronto&#8217;s Portlands are a bit more isolated geographically.<\/p>\n<p>The brand new T-Third Street LRT line opened only a few weeks earlier, replacing a diesel bus route. This LRT line connects the lower income Visitacion Valley, Hunter&#8217;s Point and Dogpatch neighbourhoods with the downtown core, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Muni_Metro\">Muni Metro streetcar subway <\/a>under Market Street (another project the TTC may emulate with the Eglinton-Crosstown Line of Transit City). The T Line also runs through the Mission Bay district.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v297\/spmarshall\/Spacing\/SpacingSF7.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was immediately struck by how similar San Francisco&#8217;s Mission Bay was to our Portlands. The Light Rail Vehicle crosses an old shipping channel on a drawbridge (reminded me of the Cherry Street bridge), while on one side, residential development lines the waterway, as far as the elevated Interstate 80 ramps (another interesting parallel to the Gardiner). There are no plans to bury Interstate 80, as it also serves as the approach to the Bay Bridge to Oakland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v297\/spmarshall\/Spacing\/SpacingSF5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The completed residential buildings, all low-rise, look similar in size and form, but the varying colours of the bricks makes them look attractive from a near distance. A new public library just opened here as well, just on the north side of the channel.<\/p>\n<p>Further south, the lands are completely barren, made up of parking lots and vacant lands, all of which will soon be built upon. In the middle of this is a new campus for the University of California at San Francisco, complete with student residences, while across the street, construction is underway on a commercial\/industrial development.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.photobucket.com\/albums\/v297\/spmarshall\/Spacing\/SpacingSF2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When complete, there will be 6000 new housing units, of which 28 percent will be affordable housing, geared to income, as well as 800,000 square feet of retail space, 6 million square feet of office and high-tech industrial space, a large hotel, 49 acres of parks, and a new school, and a firehall and police station.<\/p>\n<p>It was also interesting to note that the light rail line (which is in the middle of Third Street, with high-platform boarding) was built just as development was underway, rather than built after the demand made it necessary. While the route replaces an important bus route, it will certainly help make the neighbourhood more attractive (only 10-15 minutes to the Financial District), as well as provide better service for many of San Francisco&#8217;s most marginalized neighbourhoods. Here, the light rail line obviously has signal priority though signalized intersections, speeding up service. Meanwhile in Toronto, streetcars on Spadina or Queen&#8217;s Quay are held up because the Transportation (should read: Roads) Department has not turned the system on.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more by going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgov.org\/site\/sfra_page.asp?id=5597\">Mission Bay Redevelopment site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in San Francisco just over a week ago, for the first time. One of the many things I did was try out the new T-Third Street light rail line, which fully opened earlier in April. While riding the latest addition to that fine city&#8217;s legacy streetcar system, I happened upon San Francisco&#8217;s waterfront<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/05\/11\/san-franciscos-portlands-redevelopment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;San Francisco&#8217;s port lands redevelopment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4030,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[5639,1153,5637,5641,5602,5643,5635,5640,5634,21,316,5642,576,19,5638,5644,5636],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transit","category-waterfront","tag-bay-bridge","tag-california","tag-cherry-street-bridge","tag-high-tech-industrial-space","tag-hunter","tag-large-hotel","tag-mission-bay","tag-mvva","tag-oakland","tag-other-cities","tag-queen","tag-retail-space","tag-san-francisco","tag-toronto","tag-university-of-california","tag-university-of-california-at-san-francisco","tag-visitacion-valley"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>San Francisco&#039;s port lands redevelopment - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/05\/11\/san-franciscos-portlands-redevelopment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"San Francisco&#039;s port lands redevelopment - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was in San Francisco just over a week ago, for the first time. 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