Pier 70, San Francisco, California
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California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, is a historic pier in San Francisco's Potrero Point
Potrero Point
Potrero Point San Francisco is the location of the earliest and most important industrial facilities in the Western United States on the eastern extension of San Francisco's Potrero Hill, a natural land mass extending into San Francisco Bay south of Mission Bay. Potrero Point, the point of Potrero...
neighborhood. The pier still has its historic buildings, which housed Bethlehem Steel
Bethlehem Steel
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation , based in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was once the second-largest steel producer in the United States, after Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based U.S. Steel. After a decline in the U.S...
's administrative offices
Building 101 (San Francisco)
Building 101 is a building located at San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood, designed by Frederick H. Meyer.The building was built after Bethlehem took control of the acreage once owned by Union Iron Works...
and Union Iron Works
Union Iron Works
Union Iron Works, located in San Francisco, California, on the southeast waterfront, was a central business within the large industrial zone of Potrero Point, for four decades at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries.-History:...
, and is currently occupied by BAE Systems Ship Repair, which once housed the SS Oceanic
SS Independence
SS Independence was an ocean liner built in 1951 for American Export Lines. Between 1974 and 1982 she sailed as Oceanic Independence for Atlantic Far East Lines and American Hawaii Cruises, after which she reverted to her original name...
(also known as the SS Independence) and Sims Group
Sims Group
Sims Metal Management is a global Australian-based company that specializes in metal recycling, formerly known as Sims Group.Sims Metal Management is the world’s, as well as North America’s and Australasia’s, largest metals and electronics recycler...
, a metal operator, and the Port of San Francisco
Port of San Francisco
The Port of San Francisco lies on the western edge of the San Francisco Bay near the Golden Gate. It has been called one of the three great natural harbors in the world, but it took two long centuries for navigators from Spain and England to find the anchorage originally called Yerba Buena...
currently has plans for redevelopment.