Westpoint Harbor is a marina that opened in 2008 at the mouth of the Westpoint Slough located in Redwood City, California .
4-645: The first development on the site in the 19th century had been a shipbuilding yard with close proximity to a cement factory. After 1918, when the cement plant closed, Leslie Salt used the site as a holding pond for bittern . The marina took over 19 years from when the idea was conceived originally to being constructed completely. Three years were spent obtaining the land from the owner Cargill who owns several nearby salt ponds . An additional 12 years passed obtaining permits from various agencies to commence construction which took another four years due to heavy rains. Private commuter ferry service carries passengers from
8-545: The East Bay and San Francisco to the marina, with a planned expansion for more public service in the future. The harbor and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission have been at odds for years over various regulations and permit enforcement with the commission in early 2018 attempting to levy more than US$ 500,000 (equivalent to $ 606,679 in 2023) in fines. Westpoint Harbor also hosts
12-664: The Stanford University Treeathalon every year, a triathlon competition. Leslie Salt The Leslie Salt Company was a salt-producing company located in the San Francisco Bay Area , at the current locations of Newark , Hayward and other parts of the bay. According to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1983, Leslie Salt had "been in business since 1901 and since 1978 [had] been a subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Cargill Inc". The name of
16-835: The "Leslie Salt Refining Company" was abbreviated to "Leslie Salt" in 1936 after the consolidation of California Salt Co. and the Continental Salt & Chemical Co. The company produced salt using salt evaporation ponds on the shores of the San Francisco Bay . By the 1940s, Leslie Salt under the dominant ownership of the Schilling family had become the largest private land owner in the Bay Area. By 1959, they were producing more than one million tons of salt annually, on over 26,000 acres (11,000 ha) of bay salt ponds. They were purchased by Cargill in 1978. It continued to operate as
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