Hunters Point Shoreline, 2017 The restoration of the shoreline as a social and environmental resource began in 2012; in September 2016, after several years of planning and outreach to stakeholders, government agencies and residents, shoreline remediation happened in just five months. Design process and engagement took several forms, including NOW Hunters Point event meetings with residents, civic organisations, and city and state leaders. The design acknowledges and transforms the site's industrial legacy, showcases a restored native habitat shoreline ecology and gives opportunities for active and passive recreation.
NOW Hunters Point, 2013-2021 The initial idea was to use temporary site activation to engage the community, build stakeholder investment and collect community feedback to inform the planned restoration of the shoreline. In collaboration with PG&E, we crafted an a request for proposal and hired the design firm Envelope A+D and Studio O to lead this effort. The interim use program began in 2013 and ran through Autumn 2021 producing 319 events and exhibitions both on-site and in the surrounding neighbourhood, 66,000+ visitors to the site, partnerships with twenty local Bayview-Hunters Point community organisations and more than 300 job training recipients. The events, training, educational programs, exhibitions and community gatherings transformed perceptions of the 32-acre site. Instead of barren land, the property was evolving into a place of well-being, pride, fun, and connection. The NOW Hunters Point program served as a critical agent in the strategy to leverage community engagement, explicitly informing the community-centred design process that engendered the Hunters Point shoreline.
Tom Fitzgerald
Urb-in put forth the idea that the shoreline path could not simply be a replacement of 3' wide path and the restored shoreline should be built in line with comparable shoreline parks in San Francisco. Specifically, we referenced an effort by the San Francisco Port called the Blue Greenway which had developed standards for a series of shoreline parks along San Francisco Bay. Additionally, we proposed setting aside a portion of the remediated site for temporary community-serving uses. The idea is that we could use these events to engage with the community around the creation of the shoreline and the eventual site re-uses.
Anne Hamersky
In 2012, we wrote a design brief and with PG&E ran an request for proposals for Hunters Pont Shoreline and the Interim Use project (later called NOW Hunters Point) This contract was awarded to RHAA, Envelope + Studio O. above: Envelope + Studio O's NOW Hunters Point event space on the cover of Architect, The Journal of the American Institute of Architects. Vol.107, no. 5, May 2018.
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