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‘I’m in awe’: New 6-acre San Francisco park opens today
The much-anticipated Battery Bluff park within the Presidio opens to the general public immediately.
The 6-acre web site options gardens, picnic tables and an impressive view of the Golden Gate, and marks the second of three sections to be opened across the restored web site at what was as soon as Doyle Drive.
Seven acres of tidal marsh opened at Quartermaster Attain in December of 2020. The ultimate 14-acre park atop the Presidio Parkway tunnels, Presidio Tunnel Tops, is ready to open in July.
A viewPresidio Parkway beneath Battery Bluff.
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“Sure, I am sporting heels in a park,” joked Mayor London Breed at a transparent sunny day on the web site yesterday, in entrance of the outdated batteries. “I am in awe of this view, and the magic of what I really feel immediately.”
“Individuals come from everywhere in the world to expertise the very best that San Francisco has to supply. They arrive for the sheer magnificence, entry to inexperienced and open area, and to go to a few of the finest city parks within the nation,” Breed stated. “Now, everybody can have extra to sit up for and larger entry to this nationwide park with the historic renovation of Battery Bluff.”
A view of Battery Sherwood.
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In-built 1936 as a New Deal challenge, the unique Doyle Drive linked San Francisco to the Golden Gate Bridge, however by the Nineties it was deemed each an eyesore and probably the most harmful stretches of highway within the metropolis. Earlier than it was lastly torn down, federal freeway officers gave it a security score of two out of 100. The park challenge to revive the location has taken quite a few businesses and greater than 30 years. The park was designed by late panorama architect Michael Painter.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed speaks on the Battery Bluff opening celebration. 
4 historic gun battery websites, Slaughter, Baldwin, Sherwood and Blaney, at the moment are on view on the web site for the primary time for the reason that building of Doyle Drive started in 1936. Constructed between 1899 and 1902, the batteries have been a part of the U.S. Military’s coastal protection system across the Golden Gate to guard San Francisco Bay.
The point of view for the Golden Gate Bridge in Battery Bluff. 
“We’re so grateful for the collaborative efforts of numerous public servants and neighborhood members working collectively over many years to reimagine San Francisco’s northern waterfront,” stated Jean Fraser, CEO of the Presidio Belief, in an announcement. “Because of that work, the Belief was capable of create extra park facilities for the enjoyment of all guests. We sit up for unveiling the ultimate gem, the Presidio Tunnel Tops, later this 12 months.”
A view of the Presidio Parkway from the newly opened Battery Bluff.
A view of Battery Slaughter, one in all 4 large concrete gun batteries that at one time defended San Francisco Bay from invasion, that have been dug into the hills of the Presidio which are positioned within the newly opened Battery Bluff.
A view of Battery Slaughter, one in all 4 large concrete gun batteries, that at one time defended San Francisco Bay from invasion, that have been dug into the hills of the Presidio which are positioned within the newly opened Battery Bluff.