Design team trims arena, adds open space in revised Warriors Pier 30–32 plan

Summary

Designers presented a revised Golden State Warriors arena for Piers 30–32 that reduces building mass, increases open space and repositions vehicular access; the presentation was informational and drew both neighborhood opposition over traffic/parking and support emphasizing jobs and waterfront revitalization.

Designers for the proposed Golden State Warriors arena at Piers 30–32 presented a revised plan to the San Francisco Port Commission that reduces the venue’s mass, increases public open space and reconfigures site access.

Craig Backus, presenting for the design team, said the latest iteration “reduces the girth of the arena rather significantly, and that’s by removing about 33,000 square feet out of the facility itself.” He and the team described lowering several terraces and practice-court heights, adding vegetated areas and expanding publicly accessible space along the pier edges.

The presentation included a series of specific adjustments. Designers said they removed about 15,000 square feet of pier to expose more water at the southern edge; added roughly 1 acre of planted, pervious landscape (about 2 acres of planted sitewide); and…

Design team trims arena, adds open space in revised Warriors Pier 30–32 plan

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