Shipyard Arts July 24th, 2024
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By Sam Whiting, Reporter Updated Oct 20, 2024 9:58 p.m. San Francisco Chronicle
In the Sunday morning sunshine, Robert Simms came down from his home in San Francisco’s Bayview and walked out on the pier of 900 Innes Park, which had opened the day before.
“This place is amazing, man,” Simms said as he turned and looked back on the mostly neglected hillside neighborhood where he has lived for 45 years.
“There hasn’t been anything out here since Candlestick closed,” said Simms, who has been monitoring the painfully slow 10-year conversion of a closed boatyard into a destination with a food court, shipwright’s museum, wooden boat building school, and more white Adirondack chairs than there were people to sit in them on opening weekend.
That’s exactly what they were doing Sunday, the first day 900 Innes functioned as a regular city park after Saturday’s grand opening. People arrived by car, bus, bicycle and even boat, thanks to two rowers who paddled over from the Dolphin Club on the northern waterfront and tied up their boat at the new pier.
S.F.’s $68 million park opens to rave reviews: ‘This place is amazing’
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