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Design tweaks aim to lower profile and add public space to proposed Warriors waterfront arena
Summary
Design team presented changes that lower the arena height, move the bowl seaward and add terraced public open space and a ramped promenade. Speakers praised increased public access and local hire commitments but neighbors raised traffic and height concerns.
Designers for the proposed Golden State Warriors waterfront arena returned to the Port Commission May 16 with a refined concept that the team said responds to city and agency feedback by reducing scale and increasing public access.
Byron Rhett, Planning and Development Director for the Port, and Nick Raider of Snohetta (the design lead) described a revised plan that moves the arena farther east, creates terraced "venue plaza" spaces, lowers the arena roof to about 125 feet, increases public open space to roughly 6.6-6.7 acres and reduces parking roughly 17-18 percent compared…
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