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Welcome to your India Basin Newsletter for September
Welcome to the latest newsletter for the India Basin Park Project, a partnership between the City of San Francisco, Trust for Public Land, the San Francisco Parks Alliance, the A. Philip Randolph Institute, the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, and the Bayview-Hunters Point community.
Together, we will build a park that is both spectacular and crucial to the health of San Francisco’s southeast communities, which have been historically underserved. The development of the land at 900 Innes, acquired in 2014, will transform a post-industrial brownfield into a legacy waterfront park, with an emphasis on public access, social equity, recreation, resiliency, and habitat restoration and enhancement.
In this newsletter, you'll receive regular updates on construction progress, updates on the project's Equitable Development Plan, and invitations to events and happenings around the project.
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India Basin at 900 Innes Groundbreaking September 14
We're excited to announce we will break ground on the construction of the India Basin Waterfront Park Project at 900 Innes Avenue on Wednesday, September 14 from 11 a.m. to noon. The event will feature a special ceremony, refreshments, and view of the newly cleaned site. Work will include rehabilitation of the historic Shipwright's Cottage, as well as construction of a food pavilion, shop building, two new piers, a floating dock and more. Enter the site at Hunters Point Boulevard and Hudson Avenue to attend the ceremony.
To get you excited for this event, learn more about the environmental cleanup that paved the way for this groundbreaking by watching its video at the link below.
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Glassy Arts Festival and Marketplace on September 18
Check out the first Glassy Arts Festival and Marketplace on Sunday, September 18 from 4 to 7 p.m. The event celebrates fine artisans and vendors from Bayview-Hunters Point and will take place at The Crossing at East Cut (200 Folsom Street).
In partnership with En2Action and Public Glass, the event will have live glass art demos, food options including Gumbo Social and Yes Pudding, live music, kids arts and crafts workshop and more. This free event is hosted by The Crossing at East Cut. For more information and to register, click the link below.
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Swing into Stories Comes to Hilltop Park on September 20
The San Francisco Public Library's (SFPL) YouthMobile is coming to the park! Movement and play are essential building blocks in fostering literacy and a love of reading and the SFPL is bringing stories and song to San Francisco's parks through its Swing into Stories program. It takes place at a different park each Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to noon. The next will take place on September 20 at Hilltop Park (Newcomb Avenue and Whitney Young Circle). Join us for a high-energy storytime in our beautiful outdoors!
The YouthMobile offers a diverse selection of children’s library materials available for check-out with an SFPL library card. From the city’s only kid-focused bookmobile, staff circulates materials, creates library cards and provides the public with information about library services and programs. For more information and the Swing into Stories schedule, click the link below.
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Intentional Shift at Hunters Point Shoreline September 24
Join community partners for Intentional Shift, an interactive, site-specific dance performance and art installation at the Hunters Point Shoreline, from Heron's Head to India Basin Shoreline Park. Featuring collaborations with local artists and community storytellers, audiences will be invited to explore how communities inhabit space, how spaces influence bodies, how design can bring communities together, and how history is held in individual and collective bodies. The first performance will include ASL interpretation at 1 p.m., while the second will take place at 3 p.m. on Saturday, September 24.
Intentional Shift brings closure to the program NOW Hunters Point, a unique community-based activation project in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood that began in 2013 on the former PG&E Power Plant site. For more information and to register, click the link below
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Bee Education Workshops at Heron's Head Park Starting October 8
Join community partners for bee educations workshops at Heron's Head Park (32 Jennings Street) starting on Saturday, October 8 from 1 to 3 p.m. These workshops are available to those 18 and older who are Bayview-Hunters Point residents or service providers. The first workshop will be on native bee nest building. For more information and to register, click the link below. Questions? contact Miguel Dimas at ecocenterhhp@sfgov.org or (415) 676-1394.
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Root to Bloom Training for Community Organizations & Individuals
Root to Bloom is a training program for community-based service providers to engage in self-healing and transformational tools so they can serve the most vulnerable communities at their full capacity. It is currently enrolling community organizations and individuals for its training programs. For more information and to sign up before September 28, click the link below.
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India Basin Shoreline Park Specialty Construction Training
Job readiness trainings are continuing as a part of the recruiting process for the India Basin Waterfront Park specialty construction training. These free trainings, in partnership with the San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) and its CityBuild Academy, are delivered by union professionals with other benefits such as tool and union initiation assistance, employment sponsorship as a union apprentice with members as laborers. These trainings follow strategies highlighted in the project's Equitable Development Plan, following the initiative to provide Bayview-Hunters Point residents ample training opportunities for construction and post-construction jobs at the park.
The next orientation date will take place on Tuesday, October 11 from 2 to 4 p.m. If you would like to RSVP for this orientation, contact Eva Hopkins by email at evahopkinsaprisf@gmail.com or call (415) 821-4777. For more information, click the link below.
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India Basin Tech Hub Offers Free Wi-Fi & Device Lending
Have some homework to do or a meeting to take, but sick of being cooped up inside? Visit the India Basin Shoreline Park Tech Hub (Hunters Point Boulevard and Hawes Street), which offers free Wi-Fi access, laptop and tablet lending and on-site technical support to local residents. The Tech Hub also offers a variety of community services from job assistance to clean slate support and more. It operates Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. See you at the park!
For updates, be sure to follow APRI's Instagram account at the link below.
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Job Assistance Sessions at India Basin Shoreline Park
APRI is bringing back its information sessions for job seekers every other Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at India Basin Shoreline Park (Hunters Point Boulevard and Hawes Street) with the next on September 21. Swing by if you're looking for leads on jobs or would like help filling out an application. For more information, email msSmithaprisf@gmail.com.
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Call for Artists for India Basin Waterfront Park Project
The San Francisco Arts Commission is looking for artists and artist teams to submit public art proposals for the India Basin Waterfront Park Project at India Basin Shoreline Park. Proposals for this public art opportunity may range from a single, large sculpture to a series of smaller, human-scale sculptures located along the walking paths through the current India Basin Shoreline Park site. Artwork should be inspired by and responsive to both the site and the proposed park design, including its natural habitats, physical landscape, site history, sustainability, and program. It should also be a point of discovery and have a cohesive narrative experience along trails of the park; serve as an asset for the community and expression of neighborhood identity; and provide a community benefit, which includes providing opportunities for artists with a meaningful connection to the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood in San Francisco. For more information and to begin the application process, click the link below.
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Basketball Court Resurfaced at India Basin Shoreline Park
We're excited to share that the basketball court at India Basin Shoreline Park has completed its resurfacing project. It now features a brand new play surface, as well as backboards. In the coming months, we will paint a hypecourt mural on this court, which will be led by Bayview artists Nina Fabunmi, who designed the planned piece in partnership with the community. Get out and hoop here soon and stay tuned for an installation date!
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India Basin Community Day Celebrates Restoration of 900 Innes
Thank you to everyone who came out to our India Basin Community Day to wrap up August. The event featured kayaking, rock climbing, kite making/flying and community! It celebrated the recent restoration of the land, shoreline and shallow waters at 900 Innes Ave., which has cleared the way for construction to begin on one of the most significant park projects in the city’s history— India Basin Waterfront Park, on September 14! Read more about this environmental cleaning and the project at the link below.
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Nature Play Day a TREE-mendous Success at Heron's Head Park
A TREE-mendous thank you to everyone who came out for our first Nature Play Day at Heron's Head Park last month! We explored with all of our senses, observed wildlife, ran an obstacle course, touched worms, read books, made kites, created with nature and so much more! A special thanks to our partner organizations who made this event possible! For more information about San Francisco Children and Nature, click the link below.
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