The Statue of Unity
  The Objective
  Characteristics
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  Scott Donahue
 

© 2001 by Scott Donahue

Statue of Unity
Background

    San Francisco

    San Francisco is a romantic city perched on spectacular hills with grand vistas in all directions. It boasts world-class hotels and restaurants as well as first class parks, sporting facilities and shopping enclaves. It is home to a cosmopolitan population and is host to a year round stream of multinational visitors. San Francisco is a mature and developed metropolis bound by water on three sides and a developed municipality on the fourth.

    Treasure Island

    San Francisco's boundary encompasses a seemingly independent island in the Bay that was recently relinquished by the military, and turned back to the City. That island is Treasure Island—the site of the Magic City of the 1939-40 Golden Gate International Exposition.

    Treasure Island is 13 feet above sea level, about a mile long by five eighths of a mile wide—400 acres—that was created just north of Yerba Buena Island and the Bay Bridge. With removal of the minor military infrastructure it becomes a truly magnificent tract of San Francisco real estate awaiting development. Treasure Island is also a geographical center for the Bay, a symbolic unifier for the entire San Francisco Bay Area. It sits directly in the middle of the Bay and affords spectacular views of San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge, Angel Island, the East Bay Hills and the distant shores of Sausalito.

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