The New York Times
Apr. 30th, 2010
From the barren hilltop, you can see downtown San Francisco and the Bay Bridge, across the bay to Oakland and south to the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge. It is the kind of sweeping San Francisco view that could sustain million-dollar condominiums. But this is Hunters Point, where a legacy of toxic waste and poverty has meant that change comes slowly. For 10 years, city officials and the Lennar Corporation, a home builder based in Miami, have been preparing a far-reaching plan to replace the contaminated Hunters Point Naval Shipyard with one of the largest development projects the city has seen.
