TRAGEDY ; Golden State Warrior Player And His FAmily Perished In The damaged Home Due To Fire.
TRAGEDY: The Warriors’ Player From Golden State And His Family Died in the Fire-Damaged Home.
The Golden State Warriors, who have been based in Oakland for almost 50 years, have announced that they will be returning across the Bay to San Francisco, where they were once known as the San Francisco Warriors.
The Warriors franchise left Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where it was founded almost twenty years before to move to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1962. In the absence of a formal venue, the Warriors
played the majority of their home games at San Francisco’s Cow Palace until 1964, when they relocated to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. In order to obtain a more permanent home, the Warriors relocated to Oakland’s Oracle Arena in 1971.
April 2014:
Golden State Warriors Move Pavilion Project to Mission Bay
The Golden State Warriors (GSW) acquired from Salesforce.com Inc.; 12 acres of vacant property, located within the Mission Bay South Redevelopment Plan (MBSRP). The property includes all of lots 29-32 .
The Warriors intend to develop and build a state of the art multi-purpose cultural pavilion that will be home to the basketball team, performances and cultural events, as well as accommodate recreation, open space, and other entertainment activities.
The proposed pavilion will be built in time for the 2018-19 season.
The arena will bring the Golden State Warriors home to San Francisco and create a much needed venue within the City and County for concerts, conventions, family shows and other sporting events while creating thousands of construction and end use jobs.
Under the Master Developer Agreement with Catellus Development Corporation (now held by FOCIL-MB LLC), the move to Mission Bay will also trigger the development of hundreds of affordable housing units, construction of the 5.5 acre Bay Front Park between 16th Street and Mission Bay Boulevard, and the realignment of Terry Francois Boulevard.
The Warriors purchased the new upland location from Salesforce.com Inc. making the arena one of the first in the nation built entirely with private funds on private land.
