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Originally Posted by peanut gallery
My guess is they built to what they need and weren't interested in being a landlord to someone else.
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I'm sure that's true. That's what I meant by saying only a nonprofit would have done this. Non-profits can do what they need for their own requirements and not have to worry about efficient use of capital or assets.
Nequidnimis may well be right that FAR or some other code issue would have blocked any sort of true highrise but I'd think they could have done something more than 4 stories (or whatever it is).
By the way: Bonus points to anyone who can come up with a rendering of 942 Mission. I spent over an hour looking. If we can get a rendering, I'm thinking of making a thread for it in the "General Developments" section. At 15 stories, it doesn't qualify as a highrise but if it does get going this year it could be the most significant building to start in SF in 2009--significant not only because of size but also because of effect on its neighborhood (that area around 6th & Mission needs a turnaround bigtime).
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