Waterfront Resilience Program Media

Awards

• 2019 Award of Excellence — 3CMA (City-County Communications & Marketing Association) Savvy Awards Competition — Most Innovative: Embarcadero Seawall "Makers" Partnerships
• 2019 Award of Excellence — AAPA (American Association of Port Authorities) Communication Awards — Overall Campaign: Embarcadero Seawall Program Communications

Select Media

• Downtown S.F., North Beach included in new Bay Area tsunami hazard zones - San Francisco Chronicle
• What Islais Creek tells us about about rising sea levels in San Francisco - San Francisco Examiner
• Rising Reality - San Francisco Chronicle
• King Tides returning to Bay Area this week — KRON 4 News
• S.F.'s Embarcadero seawall is surprise beneficiary of Trump-signed spending bill — San Francisco Chronicle
• S.F.'s Embarcadero could be devastated by earthquakes and rising seas, study warns — San Francisco Chronicle
• Buffing Up San Francisco's Historic Piers to Survive Sea Level Rise — San Francisco Chronicle
• Friday's Bay Area King Tides Offer a Hint of What Rising Sea Levels Look Like — San Francisco Chronicle
• Interview with Port Executive Director Elaine Forbes — KIQI 1010AM Hecho en California
• Bay Area Prepares for Sea Level Rise — ABC 7 News
• Race Against Time: San Francisco Bay Is Rising — San Francisco Chronicle
• California Against the Sea — Los Angeles Times
• Elaine Forbes, Executive Director, Port of San Francisco — The American Shoreline Podcast
• San Francisco's Seawall — San Francisco Business Times (page 24)
• SF’s Embarcadero Seawall Measure Wins Easily — San Francisco Chronicle
• SF Lays Foundation for Seawall Repair with Beer, Coffee Campaign — San Francisco Chronicle
• In Houston, a Terrifying Real-Life Lesson for Disaster-Prone Cities — The New York Times
• King Tides a Sign of What Sea Level Rise May Look Like in Bay Area— NBC Bay Area
• 三藩市海堤建設刻不容緩 — Sing Tao Daily
• What’s Labor Got To Do With It? — San Francisco Examiner and Labor 411
• Interview with Port Executive Director Elaine Forbes — KIQI 1010AM Hecho en California
• SF Moves to Ready the Embarcadero for Earthquakes, Sea Level Rise — San Francisco Chronicle

Additional media can be found here.

Press Kit

Up-to-date content on the Waterfront Resilience Program can be found in the Resource Library.

Port of San Francisco Executive Director Elaine Forbes’ bio and headshot.

Please direct all media inquiries to Randolph.Quezada@sfport.com.

Program Press Releases

• Mayor London Breed Announces First Bond Sale to Strengthen the Embarcadero Seawall — April 2, 2019
• Mayor London Breed, State Senator Scott Wiener, State Assemblymember David Chiu, Supervisor Aaron Peskin, and City Leaders Applaud Passage for Proposition A to Strengthen the Embarcadero Seawall — November 7, 2018
• The Port and Ritual Coffee Roasters Team Up for an Embarcadero Seawall Themed Espresso Blend — August 30, 2018
• The Port and Black Hammer Brewing Team Up for an Embarcadero Seawall Themed Beer — July 10, 2018
• Mayor Mark Farrell, Mayor-Elect London Breed, Supervisor Aaron Peskin,and Port of San Francisco Announce City to Receive Federal Funding To Support Embarcadero Seawall Program — June 13, 2018
• Mayor Mark Farrell, Supervisor Aaron Peskin and City Agencies Announce Plan to Fully Fund First Phase of Embarcadero Seawall Program — April 18, 2018
• Assemblymember David Chiu, Mayor Mark Farrell, the Port of San Francisco and City Leaders Announce Bill to Fund Embarcadero Seawall Improvements — March 19, 2018
• City Residents Overwhelmingly Support Improvements to San Francisco’s Seawall — February 12, 2018
• Mayor Lee Invests In Seawall To Protect City — May 4, 2016

• San Francisco's Great Seawall Resiliency Project Selected for Establishing Financing Strategy — March 21, 2016