James R. Herman Cruise Terminal (Pier 27)
Cruise terminal
James R. Herman Cruise Terminal (Pier 27) (cruise terminal, run by the Port of San Francisco): $1.1M paid to contractors for work here, $156.4M budgeted for its department in FY2025, 304 employees on the payroll, 2 contracts, 2 capital projects, 5 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. A cruise terminal at Pier 27 was proposed long before it was built. A supplemental environmental report for a cruise terminal and mixed-use project, tied to the Waterfront Land Use Plan certified in January 1997, was published in draft in November 2001 and certified in November 2002 — and then the plan changed. The Port's capital plan for 2012-21 describes a new strategy for bringing a cruise terminal to Pier 27, and in 2011 the Port Commission was taking public comment on a notice of preparation for a combined environmental review of the Pier 27 cruise ship terminal and the 34th America's Cup. That review, case 2010.0493E, covering the James R. Herman Cruise Terminal and Northeast Wharf Plaza, went to comments and responses on 1 December 2011 and was certified a fortnight later. What exists now is terminal and public space together: by 2015 the executive director's report is announcing a free symphony concert at Cruise Terminal Plaza and receiving a status report on activity at the terminal and Pier 35. The contracts recorded against the pier are for its public art — the artist Ana Teresa Fernandez engaged at $234,890 and paid $229,585 — set against a capital plan that had newly recognised a $40 million need for the Port's under-pier utility infrastructure. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.
A cruise terminal at Pier 27 was proposed long before it was built. A supplemental environmental report for a cruise terminal and mixed-use project, tied to the Waterfront Land Use Plan certified in January 1997, was published in draft in November 2001 and certified in November 2002 — and then the plan changed. The Port's capital plan for 2012-21 describes a new strategy for bringing a cruise terminal to Pier 27, and in 2011 the Port Commission was taking public comment on a notice of preparation for a combined environmental review of the Pier 27 cruise ship terminal and the 34th America's Cup. That review, case 2010.0493E, covering the James R. Herman Cruise Terminal and Northeast Wharf Plaza, went to comments and responses on 1 December 2011 and was certified a fortnight later. What exists now is terminal and public space together: by 2015 the executive director's report is announcing a free symphony concert at Cruise Terminal Plaza and receiving a status report on activity at the terminal and Pier 35. The contracts recorded against the pier are for its public art — the artist Ana Teresa Fernandez engaged at $234,890 and paid $229,585 — set against a capital plan that had newly recognised a $40 million need for the Port's under-pier utility infrastructure.
Pier 27 · City-owned · 436,042 sq ft · 5 buildings on site · parcel 9900070 · District 3 · City Facilities registry
What the City actually paid, across 3 contractors. Contractors big enough to have their own page are linked; the rest are named only.
Every line opens that contract’s own page, with its spend curve and its subcontractors. Agreed amounts are ceilings, not spending.
Run by the Port, whose whole-department budget is $156.4M across 304 staff (FY2025) — citywide, not this place’s own. The City does not publish a running cost per building.
The environmental review joining the cruise terminal to the 34th America's Cup, certified in December 2011.
Draft environmental impact report : the 34th America's Cup & James R. Herman Cruise Terminal and Northeast Wharf Plaza · 2011 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansThe earlier certified report for a cruise terminal and mixed-use project, a plan later superseded.
San Francisco cruise terminal mixed-use project and Brannan Street wharf project : final supplemental environmental impact report · 2002 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansThat project's draft report, published for comment in November 2001.
San Francisco cruise terminal mixed-use project and Brannan Stret wharf project : draft supplemental environmental impact report · 2001 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
2 procedural records — minutes, agendas, calendars — not listed.
