San Francisco Business Times
J.K.Dineen
Monday, July 12, 2025
Read more: Bayview businesses back Lennar's Hunters Point bridge - San Francisco Business Times
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Saul Bloom of Arc Ecology, which is pushing the alternative route, said the alternate route would cost about $50 million less than the bridge. While he said he sympathizes with the property owners, he said mass transit line is an appropriate use for the railroad right of way. He said Lennar’s plan to eliminate sidewalks and parking spaces on Ingalls and Innes streets will have an adverse impact on more property owners than building a road along the old tracks.
“While I can see that those individuals now squatting on the public property of the alignment may find it inconvenient to adjust, the modifications to Ingalls - actually quite close to takings - will have a far larger impacts on many of those businesses.”
Bloom said the alternative is the best bet for allowing the project to “move forward unimpeded by litigation and with the least impact to the environment, public, residents, and the neighborhood’s economy.”
“While I am sympathetic to the concerns of those few businesses the police have allowed to squat on the right of way, it nevertheless appears to be a very significant and untaxed public subsidy bestowed on a very small number of people apparently without ... any formal oversight or public process,” said Bloom.
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