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

• 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

• What is the Embarcadero Seawall?: English – Español – 中文
• The History of the Embarcadero Seawall: English – Español – 中文
• The Seawall Program: English – Español – 中文
• The Embarcadero Seawall and San Francisco Resiliency Planning: English – Español – 中文
• Seawall Improvements Funding and Schedule: English – Español – 中文

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 Arron Peskin, and City Leaders Applaud Passage for Proposition A to Strengthen the Emarcadero 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