'Rather than saying it's an enclave for the rich, people should be saying, 'Isn't this a spectacular execution of what San Francisco aspires to be?''
A view of the eastern span of the Bay Bridge, as seen from new luxury condo units for sale at The Bristol, on Yerba Buena Island.It’s hard to miss the glossy new building perched near the Bay Bridge tunnel’s eastern mouth, jutting out from a forest of eucalyptus and Monterey pines.
While on a tour of the building, I thought their prices might make sense. The air inside smelled expensive, and I was scared to touch anything besides my notebook. Every unit I saw had a million-dollar view, with Treasure Island as the centerpiece. For now, it looks like one big construction site, but soon it’ll have its own skyline to match the one across the water.
All of that aside, life was pretty good — and more importantly, rent was cheap enough that our little group of Black and brown transgender 20-somethings could afford a three-bedroom home on service industry wages. That’s how Christoph Oppermann ended up on Yerba Buena in 1999, in a two-story, three-bedroom apartment near where The Bristol sits now.
Residents knew it was all temporary — a clause in their lease mentioned future developments somewhere down the line that would require them to leave the island. What they didn’t know was when they’d have to leave, or under what circumstances.
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