Power plant and nuclear waste.... You might grow some extra limbs. Might be a useful addition to fight off the muggers.
Where is the power plant? There was Naval shipyard where they used to wash nuclear contaminated ships retuning from Pacific where they test nuclear bombs and there was a nuclear research facility where they test radiation on living beings.
I thought hunters point is sketchy? At least when I used to live in SF, we avoided it like a plaque. It’s polluted and crime ridden, run down neighborhood. At some point, it made up 50% of homicide in SF. Maybe things have changed a lot due to gentrification?
That’s a superfund site to begin with. Recently the contractor company hired by Navy turned out to be faking soil samples. The side closure (releasing it to city for development) postponed indefinitely. Noone knows how bad it is, since samples and data is tampered. Lennar sales reps are painting rosier pictures about building ‘santana row’ like highend street and marina and so on. That’s probably 10-20 years away. Meanwhile you’ll end up paying Mello Roose taxes %2 for next 41 years. Hunter’s Point is probably the last and largest remaining getto in SF. As soon as you step outside of your development, you’ll get shot at. No restaurants, bar or convenience store within miles. It’s federally designated ‘food desert’. Maybe looong term investment? Buying and renting? Could turn out to be good if you survive that long without getting cancer.
Lol “as soon as you step outside... you’ll get shot at”. Yes there is lots of crime still but you can get shot anywhere in SF or major city. Random shootings don’t happen in HP much. However they do downtown
I currently live in the area. My wife and I frequently bike to the shipyards to hang out on the grassy lawn overlooking the bay. I love that area, and I think it is under-appreciated. It’s pretty close to dogpatch, and the bike trails to downtown are mostly protected or separated. I’m thinking of buying a second house in the shipyards as an investment property.
Do you mind sharing if you own one of lennar constructed units? Is the area worth it? Do you see improvement from the time you moved in? How are crime stats, since deveoplmebt area is isolated and t you have to ride through a sketchy area to go to downtown or dogpatch
I live in the Bayview, just south of hunters point. It’s slightly different in character. I frequently visit hunters pint, usually by bicycle, and often at night alone. It’s very quiet and peaceful. The crime is not as bad as it was four years ago. I heard from neighbors that it was much worse 10 years ago. It’s really not bad now at all. There are still pockets of crime, mostly gang related, and between gang members. The gang crime is rare, and focused along third street, around Palou. I haven’t seen or been the victim of any violent crime. Neither has anyone I know in the neighborhood. My wife goes running alone at night and has never been bothered. We have been the victim of a car break in on our block at night, but only once in four years, and they didn’t take anything. The shipyards have private security, so crime is actually really low there. Also it’s out of the way, and the projects by the shipyard are really quite nice ones. Those are the new projects that have a modern design, and you might not even think they are projects, just by looking. The real problem with the area in my opinion is the trash. There is a lot of littering and illegal dumping. Nothing major in size, but the frequency of small littering is irritating. I think that you avoid the littering though by being in the shipyards, because of the private security. You would have to bike through one slightly sketchy area to get to work downtown. It’s near the old ship buildIng area, near Albion castle. However, the people have never said anything to me or my wife, and they seem friendly. It just looks unsightly in that area, with cars double parked, and people loitering. Actually, the bike ride through Herons Head Park on the way to downtown, is one of my favorite routes. You should give it a try yourself, it’s nice.
Lennar as builders are good, that area though I noticed that there have been homes on the market there forever. So things are not selling and I guess due to all the reasons above. I always assumed it was due to the neighborhood crime
Avoid..
Hunter's point never going to gentrify anytime soon. My 95 year old grandma has been saying since the 1940s that a turn around is right around the corner, but it is still sketchy as ever.
That doesn’t even make sense. In the 40s the area was booming.
Maybe booming was the wrong word. It was definitely growing in population.
Houses in Hunter’s Point and nearby have barely appreciated last 5 years and a lot of them are already worth lesser than the prices they sold for in 2018. In the best bull run where entire SF real estate appreciated heavily, suburbs like this did not. Same as East Palo Alto. Red flag.
This is not true. Also Hunters Point isn’t a suburb it’s part of SF whether you like it or not.
Isn't that the development on top of carcinogens?
That's definitely on con side of it. Buy a he radiation levels are healthy enough for government to allow developers to build. But again I m just trying to see what folks here think about the area