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| A 5.32 acre facility will be located between Islais Creek, Cesar Chavez, Indiana and I-280 at the northern gateway of the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood. |
by Robin Chiang President, Friends of Islais Creek
SF Municipal Transportation Agency's new bus facility will have
the capacity to maintain and operate 165 buses and provide a comfortable work
environment for more than 300 employees.
Community and Bay Conservation Development Commission input
encouraged SFMTA to position employee break rooms (including a deck) and a
public lobby on the waterfront so that eyes and activities in the 41,000 square
foot main building will focus on the creek.
The facility's design showcases sustainability (the "sawtooth"
roof exposes large surfaces to the south for solar panels and vertical surfaces
to the north for diffused glazing), security (gridded metal protecting
waterfront glazing and durable fencing all around) and community amenity
(waterfront promenade with ship shape sculpture, 2 story public lobby for labor
history and butterfly meadow under I-280).
SFMTA initiated the project in 1990 and construction began in
2010 with paving of the site, installing a public access promenade on the
waterfront, and building a fuel and wash pavilion and staff services annex.
Construction of the main building should begin by the end of
2012 unless SFMTA transfers the dedicated funds for a project to update portions
of the Woods facility nearby on 22nd Street.
Contact Robin Chiang for more information.
CREDITS:
Owner: San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Public Partners: Caltrans, Bay Conservation Development Commission, SF Public Utilities Commission, SF Arts Commission, SF Department of Public Works.
Community Partners: Bayview Hunters Point neighbors, Dogpatch neighbors, Copra Crane Labor Landmark Association, Friends of Islais Creek
Construction: S.J. Amoroso
Engineering: URS Engineers, YEI Engineers
Architecture: Robin Chiang & Company
Landscape Architecture: Keller Mitchell
Sculpture: Nobuho Nagasawa
Owner: San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency
Public Partners: Caltrans, Bay Conservation Development Commission, SF Public Utilities Commission, SF Arts Commission, SF Department of Public Works.
Community Partners: Bayview Hunters Point neighbors, Dogpatch neighbors, Copra Crane Labor Landmark Association, Friends of Islais Creek
Construction: S.J. Amoroso
Engineering: URS Engineers, YEI Engineers
Architecture: Robin Chiang & Company
Landscape Architecture: Keller Mitchell
Sculpture: Nobuho Nagasawa
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