America’s Cup and the San Francisco Waterfront
From SPUR:
8:47 PM PDT on April 24, 2011
From SPUR:
City Hall and all of San Francisco came together in 2010 to land the 34th America’s Cup. Where will the racing and related events take place? Where will the best viewing areas be? What will be the long-term economic and physical changes to the waterfront? Kyri McClellan, Executive Director of the America’s Cup Organizing Committee, and Brad Benson and Jonathan Stern from the Port of San Francisco lead a discussion of what the America’s Cup will mean to San Francisco.
Aaron was the editor of Streetsblog San Francisco from January 2012 until October 2015. He joined Streetsblog in 2010 after studying rhetoric and political communication at SF State University and spending a semester in Denmark.
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