"Ten years and $200 million in the making..."

Historically, the Bayview neighborhood in the southeastern part of San Francisco has had some of the highest rates of home ownership among Black people in the city, but it’s suffered from deep neglect for basic infrastructure and generations of social, economic, and environmental injustices, leaving this neighborhood perpetually under-resourced. From the 1850s to the mid-1900s, this area thrived as its shoreline was used as a civilian and military shipyard, repair facility, and slaughterhouse. But these industries left significant environmental contaminates—impacting the land and local residents today—and alienated the whole India Basin neighborhood from their beloved waterfront.

Trust for Public Land asked Groundmaking to create this documentary to celebrate an incredible milestone in Bayview’s waterfront evolution.