Some art is made. San Francisco native and contemporary sculptor Richard Serra’s is constructed – literally.
It played host to such historic moments as “The Catch” and the Beatles’ final concert. Now the flame is slowly extinguishing for Candlestick Park.
Construction of the first group of new homes for Lennar’s Shipyard project at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard has been finished and all 83 of the units have been sold. Jermaine Smith, Site Development Manager for Lennar, gave Organized Labor a tour of the development in early March. Smith said the new townhouse units in the Block 51 section of the project’s Hilltop neighborhood will be ready for occupancy in mid-April.
Delegates to the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council voted to endorse Mayor Ed Lee for re-election at a meeting on Jan. 15. Mayor Lee attended the meeting and talked about his record and improvements in the city’s economy over the last few years.
A new partnership between the City of San Francisco and the federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) agency will fund the rehabilitation work of potentially more than 4,500 public housing units. Mayor Ed Lee and HUD Secretary Julián Castro announced on Feb. 19 an agreement for a $1.4 billion transformation plan for San Francisco’s public housing system that will allow the city to leverage approximately $780 million in investor equity and other new resources and allow for the rehabilitation of up to 4,584 public housing units for 5,400 low-income San Franciscans.
Sheet Metal Workers Local 104 is currently on strike at Trayer Engineering in San Francisco. Members have been working without a contract since July of 2013.
Construction of the replacement hospital for the California Pacific Medical Center’s St. Luke’s Campus at Cesar Chavez and Guerrero streets is progressing as scheduled. A partnership formed by Herrero Builders and The Boldt Company is acting as the general contractor for Sutter’s CPMC hospitals at the intersection of Van Ness Ave. and Geary Blvd. as well as at St. Luke’s. Construction of the two new hospitals will cost $2 billion and employ up to 1,500 workers in the construction trades over the life of the project.
At a press conference on Dec. 17, the developer committed to preserving the facility at its current location at Sixth and Brannan streets in SoMa. Kilroy also pledged to build a new, state-of-the-art facility and offered all vendors and tenants a five-year extension of their leases at their current rent and terms.
