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5Point reports millions in community benefits for Hunters Point/Candlestick; residents and nonprofits praise job and youth programs
Summary
5Point and Lennar presented a quarterly status of community benefits at Hunters Point/Candlestick, reporting nearly $16 million in expenditures to date across active programs, contractor assistance, job training, and legacy funds; community speakers — workforce trainees, nonprofits and CAC members — highlighted concrete outcomes and urged continued outreach.
5Point representatives reported on the company’s compliance with community benefit commitments for the Hunters Point Shipyard and Candlestick Point project areas and described active programs and expenditures.
LaShawn Walker, 5Point’s director of community affairs, told the commission the project has committed nearly $16 million in expenditures to benefit the community, including contractor assistance, workforce training, outreach, homebuyer assistance and legacy fund payments. Walker highlighted that minority participation comprised nearly 50% of the project workforce, roughly 33% of labor hours came from San Francisco residents, and that the project has generated approximately 7,600 job opportunities and over two million hours of labor since inception.
Walker and several community organizations described specific programs: a mentorship/protégé contractor program administered by the Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, Young Community Developers’ barrier mitigation funding for union initiation and tools, a phase‑2 scholarship fund held at the San Francisco Foundation (over $8 million committed to date), and an anchor workforce training program whose first cohort was graduating the evening of the meeting.
Multiple community speakers testified to program results and local impacts. Marcus Tartt of Renaissance noted contractor capacity building and mentor relationships with large prime contractors. Joy Jackson Morgan and two graduates from Third Street Youth Center described HealthCorps placements and paid stipends that fund college attendance. Catherine Snead (San Francisco Garden Project), Tim Waters (Young Community Developers), and other nonprofit leaders described placements, garden projects and job readiness programs. Several residents and CAC members asked for continued coordination across legacy funds, the implementation committee and OCII, and for more outreach to underrepresented groups (including Samoan language materials already being added to communications).
Commissioners thanked presenters and public speakers and requested additional written data on homebuyer workshop outcomes and program participant breakdowns. The item was informational; no vote was required.
