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Bayview\u2013Hunters Point was on the precipice of becoming an enormous United States military hub in 1938. Since the late 1860s, shipbuilding and repair had been a major industry in the area; the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company\u2019s dry docks had seen the construction of numerous ships for World War I. Yet this bayside neighborhood in the city\u2019s southern reaches still had the look and feel of a small pastoral town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What the model does not reveal is the history of the Muwekma Ohlone people, who inhabited the wetlands and tidal marsh in this area for thousands of years, or the San Francisco Health Department\u2019s destruction of immigrant fishing camps in 1939 to make way for a US Navy base. By the 1940s, the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard brought an influx of black workers to the area as part of the Great Migration. The closing of the shipyard in the late 1970s led to extensive job losses, but despite rising poverty and isolation from the city, the neighborhood maintained a vibrant, predominantly black population. Today, as San Franciscans look to the south for more housing opportunities, Bayview\u2013Hunters Point is an area of substantial redevelopment. But concerns about the environmental impacts of the shipyard\u2014a Superfund site contaminated by radioactive pollution\u2014continue to create challenges for this rapidly changing neighborhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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