With the dip of 10 gold shovels into sandy soil on a perfect beach Tuesday, a rundown bayfront picnic area in San Francisco called India Basin Shoreline Park was on its way to a $105 million makeover.
When the India Basin Waterfront Park, which entered phase 3 is finished in 30 months, a hilly 7.5-acres of grass will be flattened by bulldozer into a gravel slope down to a beach, with a path linking it to the year-old park on the other side of the cove.
That park, at 900 Innes, is part of the three-phase India Basin Waterfront Park. Phase 1 was to clean up the contaminated cove. Phase 2 was construction of 900 Innes, a 2.5 acre parcel. Phase 3 – the renovation that started on Tuesday – will complete the project, amounting to 10 acres. Together, the three phases cost $225 million, making it the most expensive park project in San Francisco history…