Treasure Island

San Francisco, CA

Treasure Island sits in the heart of San Francisco Bay with the new Bay Bridge serving as a dramatic backdrop – an extraordinary location that will soon be home to one of the most transit-oriented sustainable developments in the country. As a part of the master plan, Treasure Island and neighboring Yerba Buena Island are being transformed into an environmentally sustainable new 21st-century San Francisco neighborhood for more than 18,000 residents in the middle of San Francisco Bay. The reimagined neighborhood is part of a visionary redevelopment featuring 8,000 new homes including 2,700 homes that will be permanently affordable, 300 acres of parks, trails and open space, new restaurants and shops, public art installations, and exciting events.

In the midst of the design process, we decided to rotate the grid 35 degrees to orient streets and buildings southerly. We want to warm homes and parks with as much direct sunlight as possible while minimizing wind channels.

Project News

  • Housing pipeline cranks up on Treasure Island

    The Real Deal

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  • Treasure Island’s promised wave of tenants is beginning to trickle in

    San Francisco Chronical

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  • Bay FC soccer club to build training facility on San Francisco’s Treasure Island

    CBS News

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  • Why Bay FC is building training facility in San Francisco’s ‘newest neighborhood’

    San Francisco Chronical

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  • The reinvention of this S.F. island is undergoing its first phase

    San Francisco Chronical

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Local History

A man-made treasure from the very beginning.

Treasure Island is a man-made landform built in 1936-37 to host the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition. It became a US Naval Station in 1942. Throughout World War II it housed helicopters, sea plans and airships in its hangars, and served as a processing center for 12,000 men a day deployed to the Pacific arena. The US Department of Defense closed the base as part of its downsizing efforts in the 1990s. Since then it has served as a spectacular setting for filmmakers and festival-goers. In 2011, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved the 20-year development of the site.