Along the Bayview's Innes Avenue, the city is building a delayed waterfront park while the 1,575-unit housing project meant to come with it still hasn't broken ground eight years after its approval — and a few blocks inland, the eviction notices and renovation permits keep filing.

On the bay side of Innes Avenue, where the Bayview runs out of pavement and into the water, two timelines are pulling apart.

One is a park. The final phase of the India Basin Waterfront Park broke ground in August 2025, and crews have spent the months since on the unglamorous part — PG&E pit work, soil stabilization, the pilings for a boathouse. It is running about six months behind; the shoreline that was supposed to open in 2027 is now closed to the public through early 2028, with no official reason given for the slip. At its center sits the Shipwright's Cottage at 900 Innes, a clapboard house from around 1875, San Francisco Landmark No. 250, restored and reopened as a welcome center and community room. The park has money behind it — a $25 million gift from the John Pritzker Family Foundation, $20 million from Crankstart.

The other timeline barely moves. A few hundred feet inland, at 700 Innes, the developer BUILD Inc. holds the rights to roughly 1,575 homes — 394 of them required to be affordable and built on-site, a concession residents fought for. The Board of Supervisors approved the development agreement in October 2018. Eight years later, there is no construction start date. The site is still industrial: a USPS distribution facility, light commercial tenants, the same fenced lots.

So the public amenity arrives first, late, and the housing it was paired with stays on paper. Meanwhile the residential blocks keep churning at their own pace. Bayview–Hunters Point logged 17 eviction notices in the last 90 days — a recent one on the 1400 block of Quint Street, others off Kirkwood Avenue and Northridge Road; the filings don't list a reason a passerby can read. In the past week the neighborhood generated 622 requests to 311. Up on Palou Avenue, the permits are small and steady: $19,000 to alter a building at 1414 Palou, issued June 1, one of a dozen on that street this spring.

The Black share of the Bayview has fallen from about 80 percent in 1963 to 23 percent in 2025, by the count of the local Bay View paper. Whoever walks Innes next spring will find a new beach and boathouse going up, and the lots behind them still waiting.