As an enhancement to San Francisco’s renewed waterfront, 8 Washington was conceived as a mixed-use residential development on a site that spanned both public and private lands. The address included 134 residences, restaurant and retail space, a health and swim club and new waterfront parks. As Partner at Pacific Waterfront Partners, Alicia managed the design and complex entitlements for the project, navigating the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and divergent permitting processes while forging the interests of both public and private agencies and constituencies, including the Port of San Francisco, the State Lands Commission, the San Francisco Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors.
“As a Partner with SOM for over three decades, I have had the opportunity to work with many of the most accomplished developers in the US. Alicia Esterkamp Allbin is one of them. Allbin combines creativity, authenticity and a deep network of industry relationships with a fundamental understanding of the needs of cities and communities, the economics that underlay those needs and the means to build successful political, social and economic outcomes. In an era in which real estate development can be extremely divisive, Allbin listens and builds consensus. She brings all these factors together in making real estate projects that are authentically of their community, that create life through creative tenant mixes and programs and that harness the power of design to create lasting value.”
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