New Residences Planned for Pier 70

SAN FRANCISCO—Forest City Enterprises has planned a mixed-use innovation center at Pier 70 that would feature 2.2 million square feet of office space, 1,000 housing units, and spaces to accommodate 275,000 square feet of artisans, retailers, designers, and boutique manufacturers.

The inclusion of housing is surprising, according to the San Francisco Business Times, because the Port of San Francisco had previously indicated residential development at the site would conflict with the noisy ship repair businesses on the pier. But Forest City has circumvented the conflict by placing the housing as far from the ship operations as possible and has been working closely with BAE Systems, which operates the facility, the largest floating dry dock on the U.S. West Coast, the paper says.