Green, sustainable living is coming to San Francisco via a new island development project.  Known as Treasure Island, the urban island in the San Francisco Bay is connected by a small isthmus to Yerba Buena Island.  The island was built between 1936 & 1937, from fill dredged from the bay, for the Golden Gate International Exposition.  The island is named after the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived in San Francisco from 1879 to 1880. 

Since its birth over 70 years ago the island has been primarily used as a naval base, however it was originally constructed as the site of the San Francisco World’s Fair.  Many decades after its creation that island is getting a sustainable makeover. Under a new redevelopment plan the island will become home to 5,500 units of housing in several lowrise buildings, restaurants and a ferry terminal facing San Francisco. The plan also contains several midrise towers, four 40-story towers and one 60-story tower called the Sun Tower. It also has an organic farm, a wind farm, parkland and tidal marshes. The proposal is designed to be as car-independent as possible, with the ferry terminal and basic goods within a 10-minute walk of the residences.

It will be interesting to see how this development progresses and what the final product look like.