730 Stanyan Street
some nice development in the Haight, right by Golden Gate Park and a forest of trolleybus wires
photo by Andrew Nelson
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What a wonderful place to live 
What’s even better is that it takes the place of a McDonald’s.
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The areas north and south of Golden Gate Park (namely the Richmond and the Sunset) are too underbuilt. Thankfully some denser developments are on the way.
3945 Judah Street
Photo by Andrew Nelson
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An update on the UC Berkeley’s People’s Park news. I’ve seen a Notice of Exemption for CEQA purposes about what is happening now. The notice was published earlier today and describes the shipping container installation that has been documented. It also states that the containers are expected to stay in place for 30 months. That sounds like a potential timeline for construction, but that’s speculation. As history shows, UC plans for the park are often subverted, but this gives some insight into their planned timeline
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1335 Webster Street
Safeway announced the closure Thursday, and as the Chronicle reports, the company has entered into an agreement with Align Real Estate, which plans to redevelop the entire 3.68-acre property into a mixed-use development with potentially thousands of units of housing.
The site is zoned for 130 feet in height, or around 13 residential stories, but a developer could build higher by taking advantage of the state’s density bonus program.
The Safeway site, which was part of the highly controversial and derided first redevelopment of the Fillmore in the 1960s, encompasses a large parking lot flanked on three sides by the grocery store and two strip shopping centers with office and residential above.
1088 Sansome Street
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At the southwest corner of Golden Gate Park, very close to the Pacific Ocean, is a petrol station. There is now a proposal to replace it with housing.
I wonder if at some point the Safeway supermarket and its giant carpark at the northwest corner of Golden Gate Park in the Outer Richmond will also be redeveloped.
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Various high-rise proposals for San Francisco
1101-1123 Sutter Street
955 Sansome Street
758-772 Pacific Avenue
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More proposals for San Francisco
344 14th Street
875 Sansome Street
low-rise proposal:
mid-rise proposal:
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Both use AB1287 with impressive results. With 875 Sansome, even the low-rise infill will be a sizable shift for the block. I am curious, though, if N17 can make the financing work for the mid-rise version.
More proposals for San Francisco
78 Haight Street
960 Howard Street
425 Broadway
This proposal is seeing pushback as it will replace a beloved neighborhood parking lot.
Felicity Torrecillas, who owns Felicity’s Fetiche lingerie shop just across from the site, said the proposal would create a parking headache for the shops in the area.
“It’s gonna be very difficult for me to park in my parking spot outside my store every day,” Torrecillas told The Standard. “It’s just gonna evaporate any kind of parking for my employees.”
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What a huge loss for the central shopping district!
I think this is more of a Macy’s problem rather than a San Francisco issue.
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More projects for San Francisco
3700 California Street
Plans have shifted for the former California Pacific Medical Center campus at the edge of Laurel Heights and Presidio Heights after a new developer bought the property over a year ago.
Prado Group purchased the almost-five-acre property in late 2022 for $50 million, after Sutter Health and partner TMG Partners decided to abandon their plans to redevelop it. The original plan, as the Chronicle reports today, was for just over 270 units including 12 townhomes.
But Prado Group held a community meeting Tuesday, and developer Dan Safier told neighbors that the original plans no longer “pencil,” with rapidly rising construction costs. Safier was careful to emphasize that the new proposed plan, which is twice as large — with some 560 units — still will not exceed the 80-foot height limits on the property. (With the state’s density-bonus law, Prado Group could have sought to make the buildings taller and more dense, but they seem to see that the community will push back hard on that.)
The new plan will include 320 condos, 15 townhomes, 157 independent living units for seniors, and 75 assisted-living units for seniors, the Chronicle reports.
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Incidentally, Prado Group is already working on a project, announced back in 2019, to build 744 units nearby on UCSF’s former, 10.3-acre Laurel Heights campus. That project, known as 3333 California, was met with a lawsuit from the Laurel Heights Neighborhood Association in early 2020 because of its density and size, and it’s not clear where that all stands.
936 Geary Street
249 Pennsylvania Avenue
The application writes, “the project team will select an architect to begin the design process alongside robust community outreach. The team is confident that the site can support 100+ units needed to create economies of scale during property operations and ensure its financial sustainability long into the future.”
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Some unfortunate news, there’s a fire in Redwood City destroying the affordable housing project in North Fair Oaks. The property in question is at 2700 Middlefield Road, Redwood City. I first noticed that when I saw smoke beyond the San Mateo Bridge from Yerba Buena Island. We’ve not covered it before, so here’s a link to the project when it broke ground last summer. Photos from today show the structure had topped out. No injuries reported thankfully.
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Unfortunate but glad no one was hurt.
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530 Sansome Street
“first high-rise commercial proposal in the Bay Area since 2021”
If built today, 530 Sansome Street would become the 11th tallest building in San Francisco, surpassing its neighboring Embarcadero Center towers by just a few feet.
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I gotta ask about Socketsite. Does anyone know what happened? Adam Koval hasn’t published since mid-July without explanation. His work is a vital component of the Bay Area’s real estate media ecosystem, and his absence has been felt. I hope all is okay with Koval!
Following up on the San Jose Design Review Subcommittee. Seems they still haven’t met since July of 2021. Is there something I’m missing here? Is this a thing where state law streamlining have made them irrelevant? I think I’ll send the city an email and update here if I learn anything more.
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