Two weeks in the past we attended a screening of the Sausalito Working Waterfront Coalition’s documentary A Tour of Sausalito’s Marinship: A Working Waterfront at Danger. The occasion was held at Spaulding Marine Heart, and regardless of the sudden rain and chilly snap that introduced snow to elements of Sonoma, greater than 100 folks confirmed up. Produced to lift consciousness of and assist for the battle to forestall the Marinship from succumbing to the identical destiny as many different Bay Space working-waterfront places — giving approach to large-scale residential, workplace, retail, mixed-use, and different non-water-dependent developments — the documentary showcased the variability and uniqueness of the Marinship’s companies and actions. If you happen to missed the movie at Spaulding, you may have one other alternative to look at it on the Sausalito Library this coming Friday.
The Marinship is a viable hub of business, innovation and creativity, and the movie delved into most of the varied companies and organizations which might be the life pressure of the historic waterfront district. We met creators, inventors, artisans, tradespeople, and long-term enterprise house owners, all of whom have put their cash, vitality and soul into the industries they supply. The movie explored the tight-knit group that works collectively in assist of each other and the collective good of the district. The district, by the way in which, is the place, on the top of the pandemic, round 13,000 plastic face shields had been produced in 2020. That is additionally the district that answered the decision 80 years in the past to supply 93 Liberty ships and tankers for WWII, and was the positioning of groundbreaking civil rights struggles towards union labor discrimination practices. Right this moment the district is setting a normal for innovation and new applied sciences which might be being shared throughout the globe, in addition to bringing scores of holiday makers to the wartime Industrial Heart Constructing (ICB) that now thrives because the group of artists and creators who throw open their doorways to the general public.
As we perceive, the Metropolis of Sausalito is planning to create 720 models of housing someplace inside its jurisdiction, and it has the Marinship in its sights. The SWWC says, “There are some places within the Marinship that will not intervene with industrial and waterfront actions, however that [are] nowhere close to the boatyards.” Nevertheless the priority is that your complete district will likely be engulfed.
We encourage you to take the time to look at A Tour of Sausalito’s Marinship and study what actually goes on on this important a part of the Bay Space. You may be stunned.
Signal as much as see the movie. It’s free.
When: Friday, March 11, 7:30 – 9:00 p.m.
The place: Sausalito Library 420 Litho St., Sausalito.
Get your tickets right here.
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About Sausalito Working Waterfront Coalition:
“We’re a coalition of Sausalito’s Maritime Craftsmen, Expertise Innovators, Industrial Fabricators, Artisans, Artists and residents advocating for the safety of our livelihoods, our metropolis’s financial coronary heart, and cultural heritage.
“Our imaginative and prescient for the longer term consists of an expanded maritime/artist/industrial financial engine that leverages Marinship’s historical past of innovation and fabrication. Marinship is poised to grow to be an innovation and incubation hub centered on resilient applied sciences that may deal with the realities of a altering setting. This could solely be completed if we envision Marinship not as a zone whose return on funding is to be maximized, however as an ethos the place concepts are welcomed, vetted, fabricated, examined and developed.”
Learn extra in regards to the discussions over the Marinship’s future in The Debate Over Sausalito’s Marinship Is Not Over, ‘Lectronic Latitude, October 21, 2020.
