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San Francisco's San Quentin May Become Suburbia

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Governing Magazine
21 August 2001 - 9:00am

Thanks to skyrocketing housing prices, San Quentin -- the oldest penitentiary in California -- may be razed and replaced with housing.

But in a region where real estate is like gold, San Quentin's most lasting legacy may be its location. The land once known as the Bay of Skulls is a shoreline spread just 20 miles north of San Francisco with sweeping views of bay waters and jagged bluffs. Untapped locations in the Bay Area don't get much better than this.... The just-approved state budget carries $250,000 to study plans to tear it down and replace it with less notorious residents -- suburbanites."

Full Story: Killer location may doom San Quentin Prison
Source: San Jose Mercury News, August 19, 2001
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