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Hunters Point Redevelopment Project Wins Prestigious Award at Builder's Conference

Hunters Point Shipyard Candlestick Point received the award for Best "On the Boards'' Site Plan, competing against U.S. and international entries.  IBI Group and RHAA were land planners for the project.  

"This award is a testament to the hard work and strong vision of our planners, our associates and the community – which provided much input throughout the planning process,'' said . "The entire community deserves praise for this award.''

The Pacific Coast Builders Conference is the building industry's leading conference and trade show. The PCBC's Gold Nugget Awards honor creative achievements in architectural design and land use planning for residential, commercial and industrial projects. Gold Nugget winners share one common denominator: excellence and innovation in addressing complex design/build issues.

More than 400 projects were entered in 50 different categories in the competition.  Prizes were handed out at a luncheon Thursday at project encompasses 777 acres, targeting young professionals working in the city with almost 12,000 mixed units. Proposed mix of public and workforce housing along with affordable, move up housing, R & D, retail, hotel and cultural venues. This proposed 'mini city' would achieve sustainability through solar ready rooftop units and reclaimed water. Biking and walking trails will serve to connect neighborhoods, schools, parks and retail. The sheer immensity of the overall project will provide unique challenges to the Development."

Hunters Point Shipyard Candlestick Point is a mixed-use project being developed in phases during the next two decades. Nearly two-thirds the size of Golden Gate Park, the project will nearly double the population of the Bayview, ultimately adding more than 25,000 residents to southeast .

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I am a travel journalist in California. I have been publishing travel stories professionally since 1991, concentrating chiefly on Asia, Europe, Canada and Northern California. Before striking out on my own, I was a staff writer at the San Francisco Chronicle, covering international trade, media, tourism, hotels and airlines. Before that I was a staff writer at the San Francisco Examiner, where I wrote about movies, pop music, comedy and books. I have published articles in the Globe and Mail, Village Voice, Toronto Star, New York Times Syndicate, Travel + Leisure and on Web sites TheStreet.com, MainStreet.com and Aviation.com. In an earlier life, I was editor of the Berkeley Barb weekly newspaper. I am author or co-author of five books, published in three countries (the USA, UK and Canada). I can't decide whether I write to support my travel habit or travel to support my writing habit. My Web site is wishyouwereheretravel.net. Vice President Development, North America for Pan Pacific Hotels Group, Wynne-Parry has been based in San Francisco for about a year. His mission: to acquire and rebrand hotels in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco for his employer, a Singapore-based hospitality company known for its sleek, business-oriented hotels and refined, discreet Asian hospitality. The company is keen to get back into the San Francisco market. There was a Pan Pacific Hotel not far from the cable car turnaround at Powell and Market streets but the group lost the hotel a few years ago; it is now Parc 55. Somewhere near Union Square or South of Market (San Francisco's trendy SOMA district) would be right, he says. Those areas are both close to the city's Moscone Convention Center. Pan Pacific - a corporate sister of ParkRoyal Hotels - also wants to be in New York because, well, it's New York; Chicago, because it's a major business and leisure destination, and Los Angeles, due to its market-size, marquee name and presence on the Pacific Rim. "Somewhere in the West L.A. corridor'' that runs between downtown L.A. and Santa Monica would be best there, he says. Generally, the company prefers management contracts to outright ownership, but will look at both options. "It depends on opportunity and if the pricing isn't ridiculous,'' he says. And they'd rather acquire "a hotel that has good bones,'' reflag it, change the reservations system and the staff uniforms and get busy. But they'll do an extensive renovation if the hotel needs one.

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