EDAW Intern Program Sets Sights on Historic Pier

Graduate students from universities around the world will focus on master plan designs for San Francisco's Pier 70.

Twenty-two graduate students from universities around the world will convene in San Francisco June 6, 2005 to participate in EDAW's two-week intern program. The focus is master planning for San Francisco's most historic waterfront site, Pier 70, the city's last ship repair yard, once a thriving industrial maritime center. Pier 70 is just south of Mission Bay, the largest mixed-use development in the city and site of the newest light-rail line that will link to downtown beginning in 2006.

The Port of San Francisco is looking for imaginative yet achievable means to revitalize the area. EDAW believes the waterfront access and open spaces are a prime candidate to tie into the ?EUR??,,????'??Blue Greenway,?EUR??,,????'?? a missing link in the San Francisco Bay area's Bay Trail system. The challenges include undetermined toxic issues, nonseismically-fit buildings, financial challenges for clean-up/historic preservation, and state tidelands trust restrictions land use.

The EDAW interns will consider the costs to remediate the brownfield site, strategies for bringing the 19th century industrial buildings up to code and health standards, and tactics to deal with noise and light issues.

The Port of San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom and a steering committee of officials, stakeholders and community leaders will work with the participants. Ideas and input will be welcomed through several public events.

After the two-week program, the group of interns will present their plans in a special public ceremony June 17 at the Ferry Building in San Francisco, followed by a reception. The EDAW intern program is made possible through the assistance of generous funding and partnerships with AMB Capital Partners, LLC; Landscape Forms; Martin Building Co.; Morrison & Foerster; Neighborhood Park Council; Phil Arnold of the L.M. Scofield Company; the Port of San Francisco, The Ron Kaufman Companies, and the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association.