San Francisco is moving forward with plans to consider a major renovation of Fisherman’s Wharf that will include a seafood market, food hall, performing arts space and more, as well as investments in the existing commercial fishing industry on Pier 45.
But the plan faces opposition from some fishing industry groups that use the pier for unloading, storing and selling seafood fresh from the ocean.
A vote by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors this month unanimously advanced the terms proposed by developer Fisherman’s Wharf Revitalization LLC for the $548 million project, which would renovate Pier 45’s Shed A, reconstruct Shed C — which was destroyed in a fire in 2020 — and develop a triangle parking lot immediately across from The Embarcadero known by city planners as Sea Wall Lot 300/301, but known to the public as the Triangle Parking Lot, which is between Taylor Street, The Embarcadero, and Jefferson Street…