San Francisco, California: September 3, 2008
Created to provide real estate for the Golden Gate International Expositions of 1939 and 1940, and later hosting a US Navy base from 1941 until 1997, San Francisco’s manmade Treasure Island presently offers limited public housing and recreational opportunities. Little wonder that developers are fixed on this underutilized decommissioned military property. The views of the skyline, bridges, and San Francisco Bay are unparalleled, a fact not lost on tourists, photographers, and movie makers.
Anchored in choppy San Francisco Bay, the ghostly silhouette of Alcatraz stands against the bucolic hills of Marin County at sunset.
A spiral staircase provides access to the roof of a storage tank at the Treasure Island Water Pollution Control facility. The island remains peppered with utilitarian infrastructure and architecture typical of World War II era military installations.
Artificial Treasure Island connects to natural Yerba Buena Island, through which the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge burrows. The iconic double-deck suspension span has connected East Bay communities with San Francisco for nearly 72 years and provides the sole vehicular access to Treasure Island.
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