Residents Worry About Dust as Candlestick Park Exterior Torn Down

The walls crashing down at Candlestick Park in San Francisco are raising health concerns in the neighborhood.

The iconic former home of the 49ers and Giants is almost entirely gutted. Crews on Thursday began tearing down the exterior of the stadium.

A developer is building a hotel, shopping center and apartments to replace Candlestick Park.

Resident Shirley Moore can see the work from her house and is concerned with asbestos dust and respiratory illness in her neighborhood.

"My concern is the dust. It has always been the dust and the violation of the dust environmentally," Moore said. "We are just sitting ducks as far as the dust from this stadium and the particulates that come through our window."

Moore also said she is concerned about transparency from the developer.

"They claim to have put dust monitors out here to monitor the dust and the particulates," she said. "There were supposed to be six monitors -- they only have two."

Developer Lennar Urban said there are eight monitors on Candlestick Point, with four being used for park demolition. Lennar Urban also said they follow a dust mitigation plan approved by the Department of Public Health.

An environmental health inspector said the last report found no visible dust, and trucks were being cleaned before leaving the site.

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