Bold project with 850 housing units pushed for S.F. waterfront.

San Francisco’s Piers 3032, once the site of a proposed Golden State Warriors arena, would be redeveloped with an audacious mixeduse project that would include a floating public swimming pool and more than 850 housing units, according to a proposal that city staff recommends go forward.

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“When we were having the conversation about the Navigation Center I made it clear that it would be temporary.”

Matt Haney, S.F. supervisor, on the Piers 3032 development plan

ners and Trammell Crow beat out two other developers as the preferred option in a Port of San Francisco competition for both the piers and the 3.2acre lot across the street known as Seawall Lot 330.

Previous development proposals on the 13acre site died amid fierce fights. The Warriors’ proposed arena plans fell apart because of opposition. Talks with George Lucas to put his cultural museum there went nowhere. A developer was picked in 2000 to build a cruise terminal, hotel and housing on part of the site, but the plans sank. Other proposals have also drowned. The site sat vacant since the structures on it were destroyed in a fire in 1984, but the city opened a 200bed homeless shelter there last year, which caused a neighborhood uproar and a lawsuit.

The port sounded the call for proposals in February, before the pandemic hit and many real estate projects stalled amid the economic fallout. Building is always challenging along the waterfront, where height limits and uses are tightly regulated and where activists scrutinize