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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 15

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June 1. 1983 S.F. EXAMINER B5 Proposal unveiled for Rincon Annex Historic post office would get 2 stories and towers, but design would be preserved room for a commuter train depot under the building if the state Department of Transporta tion decides to extend Southern Pacific's tracks from Fourth and Townsend streets toward the Ferry Building. Sherrick said the Postal Service hopes to ask for bids on the project by September. Built in 1M0, the Rincon Annex post office building was placed in the National Register of tower, according to Wilbur Hamilton, the Rede- velopment Agency's executive director.

Conversion of the building, no longer used for postal services, would create 156,000 square feet of office space in its Interior, plus another 100300 square feet in the rooftop addition. The towers would provide 330,000 square feet of office space, 34,000 square feet of retail outlets and 140,000 square feet for residential use proposal presented by Irwin Sherrick of the Postal Service and architect Gordon Cbong, did not require any action by the Redevelopment Agency Commission and was presented as an Informational" hem. It will come before the commission again on June 14 The 27 Anton Refregier murals that decorate, the lobby will be retained, as well as other Interior detailing of the lobby, Cbong said. The two floors that would be added to the top of the 60-foot-high post office building would be set back far enough from the Mission Street facade so they wouldn't detract from its historic appearance. The post office also is prepared to make By Malcolm Glover Examiner staff writer The historic Rincon Annex port office would get two new stories and.

twin adjoining towers under a development proposal before San Francisco's Redevelopment The plan, unveiled yesterday, would preserve almost all of the 43-yearold building's decorative design and lobby murals while adding two floors to the threwtory structure Two towers would be constructed along the southern edge of the property. One of the 240-foot towers would be devoted entirety to of ices. The other tower would house offices and residences. It's this proposal that could put a snag in the whole plan. A minimum of 150 housing units per acre is to be Included in the project, according to the redevelopment plan.

The Rincon Annex prop-' erty occupies a square block, bounded by Mission, Howard, Spear and Steuart streets and should provide space for at least 210 such units. But the proposal presented at a commission workshop yesterday provides for only 108 residential units in the top 12 floors of the east Historic Places in November 1979. and was designated a local landmark in January 198a In other business, the commissioners ordered their staff to apply for 12.1 million from the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, The money, under the Emergency Jobs Program, would be used to: demolish the old Veterans Administration Building, 49 Fourth St; to make Improvements to Solomon Village In Hunters Point, and to complete the Fillmore Center in the Western Addition A-2 area. Owned by the General Services Administration, the VA facility will be razed to make room for construction of a Marriott Hotel as part of the Yerba Buena Center project I Firm's contract threatened: no black attorneys Its failure to hire a minority lawyer fnay cost trying to locate and hire a minority attorney." He said notices had been posted at the Bay Area's law schools, and one minority student had been recruited as a "summer associate" but then decided to move to Los Angeles to be with his family. "I find this (hiring practice) unsatisfactory," Arnelle, a black attorney, said, "and am going to vote against giving them any more money." Leo Borregard, the agency's attorney, said he was "satisfied with the Steefel firm's efforts." Hamilton pleaded with the commissioners that they were in the midst of negotiations and it was imperative to retain the Steefel firm since they had reached "a critical time of the Yerba Buena Center." tinder the present contract covering all project areas, and their continued assistance in regard to all document preparation for the YBC project is essential But Hamilton's plea was unsuccessful as Commissioner H.

Jesse Amelle asked Edward, Steefel about his firm's affirmative action practices, especially those involving hiring minorities. "How many black attorneys, or any minorities, has your firm hired in the last two years?" Arnelle asked Steefel. Steefel yielded the floor to Michael Lawson, who "is in charge of the hiring," according to Steefel. "We're doing the best that we can," Lawson told the five members of the commission, "in San Francisco law firm its lucrative contract with the Redevelopment Agency and may delay the Yerba Buena Center project Although the hiring practices of the Steefel, Levitt and Weiss law firm were not on the agenda, they soon became the subject of a 20-minute discussion at yesterday's Redevelopment Agency Commission meeting, much to the dismay of some of the commission's own staff. Representatives of the law firm had been there to request approval of $100,000 so they could continue offering legal services on the Yerba Buena Center Project Area, According to Wilbur Hamilton, the agency's executive director.

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