RICHMOND — A 14-acre former port terminal in the Point Richmond neighborhood will remain vacant, neglected and fenced off behind barbed wire for the foreseeable future, after an upscale housing dev…
RICHMOND — A 14-acre former port terminal in the Point Richmond neighborhood will remain vacant, neglected and fenced off behind barbed wire for the foreseeable future, after an upscale housing development nearly a decade in the making was shot down.
—officials decided it was too complicated to juggle the development’s design aesthetics, financial feasibility, remote location, toxic soil remediation and vulnerability to sea-level rise. “Personally, at this point, I would very much like us to put this project behind us,” McLaughlin said during the. “We don’t want to put our heads in the sand, we want to keep our eyes open. If we don’t, we are really not being responsible.”
Now that the deal has fallen through, the city-owned property will be subject to the Surplus Land Act, meaning the entire approval process will restart, with the acreage offered to roughly 500 government agencies and nonprofits to build affordable housing there. “It feels like there’s so many things wrong with this site, that we really just need to consider a different kind of project.”“This second proposal is inferior in all ways, and it looks like a piece of Modesto suburbia thrown against the Bay—I think it’s atrocious, frankly,” Beyaert said. “Why not kill two birds with one stone and actually increase the density, but do it in a way that makes sense both aesthetically and economically.
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