San Francisco, California
Along with land planners, historic preservation architects, and an engineering team, EPS led an effort to produce a Master Plan for the Port of San Francisco’s property at Pier 70. The site is a 65-acre industrial area located just south of Mission Bay and east of the eclectic Dogpatch neighborhood. It is home to several Port of San Francisco tenants, including a working ship repair company, a radio broadcasting unit, an arts group, and a variety of storage uses. The more than 30 buildings on the property include one of the largest clusters of historic, maritime structures on the West Coast. The goal of the Master Plan was to create a plan to guide the rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of many of the existing structures, while providing developable locations for new, infill buildings and public access to the waterfront.
The Master Plan process provided a framework for the restoration of historic structures, integrated open space and public access at the site, and developed a viable financing strategy, which incorporated funding sources for both of the above goals, as well as for costly infrastructure improvements and environmental remediation. Using the results of community planning documents, market data on real estate values, and planning-level cost estimates, EPS prepared a financial feasibility model that tested land use scenarios with various levels of historic preservation, development intensities, and investments in community and open space. The results of the model and the physical land plan informed the types and amount of uses contained in the Master Plan and guided financing and implementation efforts.