Actually Back - Giants' Mission Rock plan is in city's ballpark

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The San Francisco Giants' plan to convert AT&T Park's barren, wind-swept parking lot into the "heartbeat of Mission Bay," with homes, offices, shops and restaurants, is the much-needed link that will connect the burgeoning neighborhood to the rest of the city, team officials said Tuesday.

(from those very nice people at the chronicle)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/04/03/BAUS1NUA5G.DTL#ixzz1r64M15Ec 

San Francisco, CA

The Mission Rock District is a dynamic mixed-use district that will be developed by The Cordish Company, in partnership with the San Francisco Giants.  This district will transform an underutilized sixteen acre surface parking lot into a world class destination that features an oceanfront public park, performance venues, retail, office, and residential uses.   The public park, uniquely positioned on the San Francisco Bay, will provide residents and visitors with unrestricted ocean access and open the district to spectacular views of the world famous bay.  The Mission Rock District will also provide an efficient, long-term parking solution for ATT Park.

San Francisco Business Times POV
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/2012/04/giants-cordish-mission-rock-development.html 

“I have every faith that we’ll work as a team,” Lee said of the Giants, Board of Supervisors and Planning Department. Lee said he hoped the project would move ahead and “not have the traditional tortuous process.”

Mission Rock Seawall Lot 337 & Pier 48

Project Overview
The Mission Rock development opportunity is located on twenty-seven acres just south of AT&T Park across the China Basin Channel. The land currently functions as a surface parking lot primarily used by ballpark patrons and an aging pier. Our goal is to transform this property into a dynamic new mixed-use community featuring a spectacular waterfront park, dramatic waterfront residences, innovative work environments, original shops and cafes, and a refurbished historic pier. The project is expected to take approximately six years to construct, following the negotiation and approval of a real estate transaction with the Port and the conclusion of the environmental review process. The project is expected to create thousands of new jobs and contribute substantial new revenues to the Port and the City.

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BIM Assist for Revit (Webinar)

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	Optimize my Productivity (Apparently) Supports Revit Architecture, Structure, and MEP. Modular support for productivity tools. When new tools are added, they can easily be added to your BIMAssist for Revit menu. Automatic Update keeps your modules current.

Still, listening, pretty good so far.

Certification Update

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Some Successes Autodesk Licensed Professional AutoCAD 2012 Civil 3D 2012 Revit Architecture 2012

Not too shabby. I'm actually listed as the only person one of only two people in the US with a Civil 3D 2012 Professional License

Now to persuade employers that that actually matters.

The exams were pretty straightforward, at least the AutoCAD and Civil 3D, the Revit however, in which I've not really had any real world project experience was a little more testing.

I should have taken the Revit earlier in the day as it would have given me more opportunity to ask around and gauge how the other takers felt about the exam. Just to see if they thought it easy/hard, fair/sneaky etc.

Of course now I need to complete the Associate level exam in order to get my name listed amongst the successful Revit pros. (Currently 3 in the Bay Area, and all working for Ideate)

I should also spend an hour checking out the Revit blogs, find the most useful and frequently update and add it to my blog roll.

Mis-LEED-ing

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Is LEED really green? How developers use a popular environmental certification program to sell projects and mislead the public - By Maggie Beidelman The archangel of sustainable development has arrived, promising much needed city housing that will add to the “social fabric of the waterfront community” with its glamorous green rooftops and unheard-of bay views. This is going to be the greenest building of them all, or so we’ve been told, but the truth is a bit more complicated.

Pretty interesting and well argued from the cats at the SF Guardian

Dolores Slides

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Just finished a few slides of Dolores

Pretty good for a beginner

No Money

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No Money The Trust for Public Land, a national land conservation organization, today expressed disappointment with a Fiscal Year 2012 bill approved by the House Subcommittee on Interior and the Environment Appropriations. The bill proposes drastic cuts to the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) reducing the program by 80% from fiscal year (FY) 2011 levels that were already 30% below the FY 2010 levels.

LWCF is the principal federal program for conservation of key lands within our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and other popular and sensitive areas, and for support of state and local parks and recreation. The program is funded using a fraction of offshore oil and gas revenues, and unlike other federal spending, uses no taxpayer dollars.

Oh well, I guess that money can be better spent elsewhere.