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San Francisco Celebrates Phase One Completion of Pier 27 James R. Herman Cruise Terminal

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MayorEdwin M. Leejoined port officials last month in celebrating first phase completion of thePort of San Francisco’s James R. Herman Cruise Terminal at Pier 27. The partially completed facility will be used as headquarters later this year for the 34th America’s Cup Races. After the America’s Cup event, the port will complete Phase 2, making the terminal operational for cruise ships and creating a 2.5 acre public park known as the Northeast Wharf Plaza in 2014. 

The new terminal will be sized to handle vessels up to 1,200 feet long and carrying 2,600 passengers and will have the capacity at key areas to accommodate vessels carrying as many as 5,000 passengers. On non-cruise days, the terminal will be used as a special event facility. 
Mr. Herman, a San Francisco Port Commissioner for 14 years until his death in 1998, served as president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union from 1977 to 1991.  

According to the port, the cruise industry generates an estimated $31.2 million annually in economic activity and 300 jobs within San Francisco. 

The city’s department of public works, along with the port, is responsible for construction management of the cruise terminal project, which is expected to create more than 1,000 direct construction jobs.

"With its expansive vistas and centralized waterfront location, the new James R. Herman Cruise Terminal is the perfect picture frame for all that is both iconic and exciting about San Francisco: from the spires of the Bay Bridge and Ferry Building, to the Transamerica Building and Coit Tower and the wonderful homes nestled into Telegraph Hill,” said Port DirectorMonique Moyer. "From the moment of arrival, visitors will be beckoned out to the experience that is San Francisco.

Under construction, San Francisco’s James R. Herman Cruise Terminal at Pier 27.
Photo/Port of San Francisco
 

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