It was in October 2023 that we announced in this newspaper the groundbreaking of a 30-year-scoped waterfront megaproject to redevelop the old Potrero Power Station property, consisting of 29 acres in the Dogpatch, into 2,600 homes and 1.6 million square feet of commercial space.
It’s been just over a year in the making, but the sleek new 16-story mixed-use tower at 555 Bryant Street in SoMa has almost fully taken shape.
The torrent of work-hours continues to flow for a significant number of Bay Area tradespeople at the Biodigester project in Bayview-Hunters Point.
Before the break of dawn one frigid Saturday morning last month, a gang of up-and-at-’em IUEC Local 8 members and a small support crew of equally ready-to-rock operating engineers assembled in front of San Francisco City Hall to get cracking on a unique modernization project.
It’s a scenic job, and somebody’s got to do it. So, leave it to the glaziers of Local 718. Who else?
As part of its huge sewer system overhaul, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) is investing $3 billion in its Southeast Treatment Plant in Bayview-Hunters Point. The idea is to build a new wastewater pollution treatment system that, once complete, will smell, look, and work better. A big element of that system is the biosolids digester — a.k.a. the biodigester.
On Monday, December 19, painter apprentices from Painters and Drywall Finishers Locals 3, 487, 741, and 913 gathered at Third Baptist Church in San Francisco’s Alamo Square to donate their time, talent, and resources for an ongoing church restoration project.
This year for National Apprenticeship Week, a contingent from the State Building Trades Council of California (SBCTC) embarked upon a Golden State-spanning trek from Redding to San Diego for an in-person look at classroom and jobsite training for building trades apprentices across California.
For the past couple of months, a small crew from IBEW Local 6 has been hard at work on a pioneering solar project in the heart of the City.
Photography by George Verlaine
The sprawling Mission Rock mega-project, which covers 28 acres in total, is essentially one enormous jobsite made up of many distinct and rather large jobsites of their own. And now, in a hot phase of construction, the super-jobsite of Mission Rock is teeming with construction workers from a variety of trades.
