Fort Mason Center lease to get 60-year extension
In some rare good news, today’s Chronicle is reporting that the National Park Service just extended the lease at Fort Mason for another 60 years.
“Twenty-eight years after San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center opened with high hopes and vague plans, center officials today are expected to sign an agreement with the National Park Service that will extend the life of the waterfront cultural enclave for 60 more years. The long-term lease for the 13-acre center serves as a vote of confidence for the Fort Mason Foundation, which leases space to nonprofit arts and environmental organizations as well as theater companies and the popular Greens restaurant. More important, officials on both sides of the deal say it should allow the foundation to arrange financing for seismic upgrades and routine improvements for the 10 buildings at the center.”
