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Lennar, nonprofits and the Legacy Foundation report on Hunters Point Phase I community benefits and workforce programs
Summary
OCII and developer Lennar presented an annual update on the Phase I Community Benefits Agreement for Hunters Point Shipyard, highlighting contractor assistance workshops, entrepreneurship programs and job-training partnerships; the Legacy Foundation27s scholarship and youth STEM plans were previewed.
The commission received an informational update May 6 on the Hunters Point Shipyard Phase I community benefits agreement (CBA), developer compliance, and programming administered by Lennar and community partners, including the Legacy Foundation.
OCII27s development specialist Inder Gharawal explained the Phase I CBA (original DDA exhibit and subsequent amendment) covers 13 benefit items including contractor assistance, workforce development, homebuyer assistance, small-business support and cultural and historic programming. Lennar27s representatives told the commission that pandemic-related disruptions left some quarterly homeownership workshops and small-business networking events partially unmet in 2023, but that those offerings resumed in 2024 and that Lennar is otherwise in compliance for the latest reporting period.
Lennar-contracted programs presented to the commission included a contractor-assistance program (CAP) administered by a local firm that holds quarterly workshops and meet-the-prime events to help small local firms bid on projects, and an outreach summary noting roughly 324 contractors, professional-service firms and suppliers were contacted during the 2024 reporting year. Lennar also described an architecture-and-engineering training program run in partnership with community groups and OEWD that placed seven local college students in summer internships in 2024; five were hired by design firms and two joined construction project-management roles.
Community partners presented program results. Marcus Tartt of Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center described business-support services, a contractor incubator in the neighborhood that incubates about 16 small construction firms, mentorship and capital-connection services; he said protégE9 contractors in 202324 secured about $8.83 million in contracts. Sid (Sydney) Martin described CAP27s workshops, suppliers27 meet-and-greets, and a forthcoming Chase Bank financial-workshop session for contractors.
Dr. Mitchell Smith of YCD reviewed the Brownfields Job Training Program (EPA-funded), reporting environmental-safety cohorts and training that produced multiple certified workers in environmental-abatement and monitoring roles with placement outcomes, including recent hiring for air-monitoring at the Shipyard.
OCII reviewed the Legacy Foundation27s work administering the Community Benefits Fund. The foundation has issued 67 scholarships to date to Bayview Hunters Point college students and graduating high-school seniors, and staff previewed new programming: a $200,000 college-readiness and STEM career-skills initiative (planned for fall 2025 through 2027) and a $25,000 Will Bass Memorial Scholarship intended to support study-abroad travel to Africa or Asia for qualified students.
Commissioners praised the reported activities and asked for continued coordination among developers, OCII and community partners. The presentation was informational; no action was required.
