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Among the real estate projects in the planning at Wilson Meany Sullivan is one that will create a terrific new neighborhood for San Francisco—Treasure Island. Today, Chris Meany talks to The Real Story about the process behind the project and gives some insight into working with everyone from citizens groups to the Federal government.

Treasure Island, once the home of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition and later commissioned as a Navy base, is one of the last large-scale, developable pieces of land in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Looking at it as “a clean piece of paper”, how can it best be planned for growth? And given its location, what kinds of new transit solutions can be brought forward to connect the island’s residents with the City and the East Bay? How will the term sustainability, often evoked in political rhetoric, actually become part of the fabric of this new neighborhood?

Take a listen to Chris Meany, and if you have any questions, forward them on to The Real Story, and we’ll ask Chris the next time we talk to him, when he comes back to share the thinking behind the plans to reshape Bay Meadows.