DT – Fiber for Public and Affordable Housing

This project will build a fiber broadband network to support free internet access to tenants in public and affordable housing sites, navigation centers, and homeless shelters and sponsored by the City. City investment to deliver fiber-based internet service to affordable housing is an important equity initiative, since the project seeks to provide very low-income residents and those struggling with homelessness with internet access that will open educational, health care and work resources. In partnership with MOHCD’s Digital Equity Program, DT could connect, manage and support an additional 300 affordable housing sites over the next four years.

This project is expected to cost $42 million over four years. To date, $12.5 million has been funded through the General Fund and FY2023 Certificates of Participation.

DT – Fiber Backbone

This project aims to expand infrastructure that supports high-speed data communications for City fiber back haul and wireless networks. The benefits of pervasive connectivity include improved access to digital information and services, as well as expanding coverage to City departments and neighborhood institutions, serving underserved communities, and improving network performance for City services and infrastructure.

The Fiber Optic Backbone provides additional capacity and greater redundancy on the City's fiber network by installing additional fiber optic cables on key routes that serve critical public safety facilities and multiple City buildings. As demand for fiber optic connections to City facilities has grown, capacity on the City's key fiber optic routes has become exhausted. Fiber optic capacity has also been further constrained as the City migrates away from the legacy phone system to digital Voice Over IP (VoIP) technology.

This project has received $2.5 million from FY2022 Certificates of Participation. The estimated cost for remaining work is $21.5 million.

MOD – ADA Barrier Removals

MOD will continue its oversight and prioritization of ongoing barrier removal efforts at public facilities throughout the City. 

It is expected that $800,000 of the Recreation and Parks Department’s set-aside and approximately $1 million of General Fund will be devoted to barrier removal projects annually. General Fund allocations would depend on the shovel-readiness of needs identified and funds available. These funds are in addition to code compliance components of debt-funded projects, which appear in the relevant Service Area chapters for those programs.

RED – Wholesale Produce 

Currently located in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood, the San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market, or “SF Market”, has been a critical piece of San Francisco’s food infrastructure for well over 130 years, offering fresh produce to local and regional grocers, specialty retailers, restaurants, hotels, caterers, and convention facilities. In 2012, the Board of Supervisors approved a new 60-year master lease for the City-owned land on which the market operates, an agreement that supports an expansion of the market to include Jerrold Avenue, between Rankin and Toland Streets, and 901 Rankin Street. The full buildout envisions a multi-phase, $350 million expansion and renovation designed to replace the Market’s 1963 buildings, improve resiliency by ensuring critical delivery of food through any crisis, and improve surrounding public roadways to increase pedestrian and worker safety. The first building—a new 82,000 square foot warehouse at 901 Rankin Street—was completed in 2015. The entire expansion increases the footprint of the market by about 25%.

The project will be implemented over a 20 to 30-year development horizon, supported by the underlying long-term lease. While not a primarily publicly-funded project, the expansion plan will rely on revenue from the Market’s subleases to its produce merchants, conventional bank loans, grants, and New Market Tax Credits. A new warehouse at 901 Rankin Street, Phase I of the project, was completed at a cost of $21.4 million and funded with Market equity and a New Markets Tax allocation.  

Expected project costs for the phases expected to be implemented during the timeframe of the FY2024-33 Capital Plan total $140 million. This includes two new warehouse buildings, an improved marshalling yard, and associated site improvements. Per the terms of its lease with the City, the Market deposits net revenues into a development account, in lieu of paying rent to the City. In turn, these funds are directed back into the development of the project, which helps offset the cost of individual phases.