Mission Bay Wins Sustainability Award?

The exact rationale for the distinction is not obvious, but interesting. Requires further inquiry.

NEWSOM ANNOUNCES $1.35 MILLION STATE GRANT FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN MISSION BAY

The California Department of Housing and Community Development Announces the Designation of Thirteen California Communities as Models for Sustainability

California selects models for sustainable land use, New Urban Network News (links to projects)

ICLEI USA Partners with Virginia Group to Foster Greener Cities, GreenBiz.com

In San Francisco, efforts to turn a 303-acre former brownfield into a large-scale, transit-oriented mixed-use development are paying off.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced yesterday that the Mission Bay redevelopment project (pictured right) will receive a $1,350,000 state grant to support affordable housing and has been designated as one of five "gold-level California Catalyst Communities" by the state's Department of Housing Community Development.

The designation recognizes Mission Bay as a model for sustainable development and establishes the project as a priority for future state and Federal funding.

There are now more than 30 life science companies in Mission Bay. When fully built, the site is to include more than 6,000 housing units (about 30 percent of them affordable), 49 acres of new parks, 4.4 million square feet of new office and laboratory space, a 43-acre University of California, San Francisco life science research campus and a 550-bed UCSF hospital for women, children and cancer patients.