Crane Cove Park

Crane Cove Park is a new, approximately 9 acre waterfront park located in the Port’s Union Iron Works national Register district within the City’s Central Waterfront, between 19th and Mariposa Streets east of Illinois Street. The future Park design concepts include shoreline cleanup and stabilization, restoration of historic cranes, restoration of ship building slipway and reuse of a historic buil

ding into a café and human powered boating center, and new public waterfront access including a beach and boat launch. The Park incorporates design elements that are significant to the industrialization era of the United States and the sites historic preservation. Pier 70 remains the location of the Port’s ship repair industry on about 17 acres adjacent to the Crane Cove Park site. Crane Cove Park site is regarded as an important Blue Greenway project and regional and neighborhood park resource, particularly for the Dogpatch and Potrero neighborhoods. The site provides a citywide and regional benefit and has been specifically identified as an open space objective in the Eastern Neighborhoods Plan and rezoning adopted by the San Francisco Planning Commission in 2008. The Park is designed to remain functional for up to 28 inches of sea level rise and to improve the City’s shoreline flood protection along Illinois Street.