[CPEO-BIF] "Candlestick Park will go out with a wrecking ball, not a bang, " San Francisco, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Candlestick Park will go out with a wrecking ball, not a bang

By Matier & Ross
San Francisco Chronicle (CA)
January 16, 2015

Plans for a pyrotechnic implosion of Candlestick Park have fizzled in favor of the wrecking ball — with health fears and political pressure playing a big part in the decision.

The 54-year-old stadium is being demolished to make way for a shopping center, hotel and housing complex. But an attention-grabbing plan to implode the Stick next month ran into stiff opposition from Golden Gate University’s Environmental Law and Justice Clinic and the Bayview Hill Neighborhood Association over fears about noise and the spread of toxic dust.

Rather than go to the mat, Kofi Bonner, president of the San Francisco division of Lennar Corp. — the developer that controls the site — said it would be “in the best interests” of the project and the city to get moving using more conventional methods.

Just this week, the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection issued a permit to Lennar to use “high-reach excavators” to tear down the stadium in sections.

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For the entire column, see
http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/matier-ross/article/Candlestick-Park-will-go-out-with-a-wrecking-6019420.php#/0

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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