Restoration Authority Awards $1.15 million for India Basin Waterfront Park

The Governing Board of the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority awarded $1.15 million funding from the 2016 Measure AA parcel tax to San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department to implement the India Basin Waterfront Park Phase 3: Shoreline Park Redevelopment Project in the Bayview Hunters Point community.

The project is the third and final construction phase of the India Basin Waterfront Park (IBWP) Project, a park that was envisioned by the Bayview Hunters Point community. The IBWP consists of the redevelopment of two adjacent properties, 900 Innes and India Basin Shoreline Park. 

The IBWP brings the 900 Innes and India Basin Shoreline Park properties into one approximately 8-acre mixed-use park that incorporates community goals, such as economic opportunity and environmental health, identified through a community participatory design process. The project is focused on the redevelopment of the India Basin Shoreline Park, a 5.6-acre park built on artificial fill with outdated public amenities, limited recreational space, no public shoreline access, degraded shoreline habitat, and outdated shoreline protection. The project will re-grade the Shoreline Park’s steep slopes so the public can more easily utilize the area. After re-grading, the project will construct improvements, including a more extensive park trail network, two basketball courts, an upgraded playground, additional picnic areas with a cookout terrace, new access to the shoreline, and 0.45 acres of enhanced tidal marsh and marsh transition zone habitat, interpretive exhibits about the history of the shoreline, a viewing dock of the historic remnants of the Bay City ferry, and more. SFRPD, in partnership with Literacy for Environmental Justice (LEJ), will monitor and maintain the native plants. All public access and recreational amenities will be placed above the projected year 2100 high-tide level.

More information on the project can be found here.