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Pier 70

Pier / shipyard

Pier 70 (pier / shipyard, run by the Port of San Francisco): $7.8M paid to contractors for work here, $156.4M budgeted for its department in FY2025, 304 employees on the payroll, 5 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. Archive documents trace planning for Pier 70. A 1986 Mission Bay study weighs a "consolidated Pier 70 and 80" container terminal against separate terminals at Piers 50, 70 and 80. Port Commission minutes from 2004 describe Pier 70 as "home of the ship repair industry." A 2011 agenda notes the Department of Defense "awarded the Port a total of $2.28 million" for environmental clean-up. A 2015 agenda presents a Forest City mixed-use plan, a proposed Pier 70 Special Use District, and a BAE Systems lease of "approximately 14.4 acres improved with 19 buildings." Pier 70 is operated by the Port of San Francisco, whose FY2025 budget line is $156M; capital records show $7,827,325.29 paid to Historic Pier 70 LLC. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.

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Grounded summary

Archive documents trace planning for Pier 70. A 1986 Mission Bay study weighs a "consolidated Pier 70 and 80" container terminal against separate terminals at Piers 50, 70 and 80. Port Commission minutes from 2004 describe Pier 70 as "home of the ship repair industry." A 2011 agenda notes the Department of Defense "awarded the Port a total of $2.28 million" for environmental clean-up. A 2015 agenda presents a Forest City mixed-use plan, a proposed Pier 70 Special Use District, and a BAE Systems lease of "approximately 14.4 acres improved with 19 buildings." Pier 70 is operated by the Port of San Francisco, whose FY2025 budget line is $156M; capital records show $7,827,325.29 paid to Historic Pier 70 LLC.

Built from: 5 archive documents, city budget data — no outside knowledge added.
$7.8M
paid to contractors for work here

590 20th St · City-owned · 825,611 sq ft · 50 buildings on site · parcel 9900070 · District 10 · City Facilities registry

What public money did here
Paid to contractors for work here$7.8M
Historic Pier 70 LlcFY2018–2020$7.8M

What the City actually paid, across 1 contractor. Contractors big enough to have their own page are linked; the rest are named only.

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.

In the archive
  • A 1986 study of where a consolidated container terminal could go, weighing Pier 70 alongside Piers 80 and 94–96 and the privately-held land between them.

    Container terminal options · 1986
    Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans

4 procedural records — minutes, agendas, calendars — not listed.

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