Water and power would be provided from lines connected to the San Rafael Bridge. The island would then be developed with a 10-story hotel and casino, and a yacht harbor on the lee (north) side. In the 1980s, a plan was proposed (but never implemented) to remove the top half of the island (which would be sold for highway roadbed construction). After a series of owners, David Glickman, at the time a San Francisco attorney and part-time real estate buyer, purchased the island in 1964 for US$49,500. The island appears, labeled "Molate Island", on an 1850 survey map of the San Francisco Bay area made by Cadwalader Ringgold and an 1854 map of the area by Henry Lange. Woodworth was the first owner and resident of Red Rock Island, where in the 19th century he built a cabin and maintained a hunting preserve. It is surrounded by some of the deepest water in the North Bay, nearly 60 ft (18 m) deep. The mountain of bright red earth and rock is 500 ft (150 m) across from east to west, 750 ft (230 m) from north to south, and rises out of the bay to a height of 151 ft (46 m). Abandoned Coast Guard fog bell on southern point of island
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