SAN FRANCISCO | Projects: Under Construction, Approved, and Proposed

[northbay]

sf's museums are all gonna be (are) architectural masterpieces!

[metafizarc]

Originally Posted by viewguysf

This really is extreme!

Contacted the SF supervisors - done and done. Thanks for the Info! maybe they've all gone

[BTinSF]

365 Fulton (AKA Parcel G) Design Evolved, Site Work Commences

Site work has commenced at 365 Fulton (a.k.a. "Central Freeway Parcel G").



Parcel G will be a five story development including 120 studio units of housing for extremely low income, formerly chronically homeless individuals, located at the corner of Fulton & Gough streets.



The building also includes approximately 2,680 square feet of ground floor retail commercial space, approximately 2,500 square feet of common space and 2,000 square feet of social service program space.

Source: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2010/...l_g_site_work_commences_and_the_pla.html

[BTinSF]

Necessary zoning changes approved by the Board of Supes Land Use Committee for 1415 Mission (southwest corner of 10th & Mission): 14 stories, 130 ft plus 16 ft mechanical penthouse and containing 26 studios, 39 one-bedrooms, and 52 two-bedrooms over street level retail and three levels of underground parking.


Source: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2010/...as_1415_mission_gets_a_land_use_thu.html

What's there now:


Source: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2009/11/1415_mission_existing_and_as_proposed.html

[peanut gallery]

555 Wash gave me hope that Heller Manus was stepping up their game. Guess not. I'm happy about more residential going in here, but the architecture is such a jumbled mess.

[Jerry of San Fran]

1415 Mission Street - View from Fox Plaza 27th Floor

Standing on my balcony I can see the site of the proposed 14 story residential tower for 1415 Mission/10th Sts., currently occupied by a red 1 story building. Across the street one can see a parking lot between Mission & Market Sts., the site of another development (35 stories at @ Market/10th). In the distance is the empty Catholic Church at 10th/Howard. If all of the proposed residential buildings are built in the next 5 years it will be a high density neighborhood.

[BTinSF]

San Francisco’s Q4 2009 Housing Pipeline Report



According to the San Francisco Planning Department’s Q4 2009 Pipeline Report, San Francisco's current big picture (click to enlarge) housing pipeline is as so:

∙ 128 projects with 1,320 housing units are currently under construction
∙ 190 projects representing 2,070 units have received a building permit
∙ 328 projects representing 4,620 units have applied for a building permit
∙ 119 projects representing 8,220 units have been approved by the Planning Department
∙ 108 projects representing 30,370 units have filed for Planning Department approval

Source: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2010/02/san_franciscos_housing_pipeline_report_q4_2009.html

[peanut gallery]

Dare we dream?

Newsom plan would defer up-front developer fees
John Coté, Chronicle Staff Writer
Thursday, February 25, 2010

It's not a cure-all for San Francisco's sputtering economy, but Mayor Gavin Newsom says his plan to let developers defer up-front fees owed to the city will jump-start major construction projects while creating at least 700 blue-collar jobs.

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The mayor's administration says the package of legislation, tentatively set to go before the Board of Supervisors' land use committee March 15, would cut up-front costs for developers, making it easier to get financing in this recession. Newsom said his proposals would speed up start times on four specific projects by as much as two years, including the second tower in the One Rincon Hill development. Work on the four projects could start in two months, he said.

They include condominium and mixed-use developments at 201 Folsom St., 1998 Market St. and 2001 Market St., and represent 1,200 residential housing units - about one-quarter of the total units already approved but waiting to break ground for financial reasons, according to the mayor's office.

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Complete article: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/25/BA981C6K8F.DTL

So, we're talking about the second ORH tower, Infinity's "twin" at 201 Folsom, the Arquitectonica-designed beauty at Market and Buchanan, and the Whole Foods proposal at Market and Dolores.

[1977]

Originally Posted by peanut gallery

Dare we dream?



So, we're talking about the second ORH tower, Infinity's "twin" at 201 Folsom, the Arquitectonica-designed beauty at Market and Buchanan, and the Whole Foods proposal at Market and Dolores.

I am dreaming with fingers crossed. It would be great to see even a couple of these projects move forward as we could use some new construction to talk about and follow.

Speaking of, does anyone know how the new PUC building is progressing?

[viewguysf]

Originally Posted by peanut gallery

555 Wash gave me hope that Heller Manus was stepping up their game. Guess not. I'm happy about more residential going in here, but the architecture is such a jumbled mess.

Yes peanut, this thing is hideous. We're in real trouble if the rendering actually looks better than the building in this case.

[viewguysf]

Originally Posted by 1977

I am dreaming with fingers crossed. It would be great to see even a couple of these projects move forward as we could use some new construction to talk about and follow.

You took the word right out of my mind. As I was reading peanut's post and fantasizing how great it would be if the four projects actually happened, my immediate thought was "Oh, what a dream!". I'd be thrilled just to see ORH 2 start along with the Market and Buchanan stunner.

[BTinSF]

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 11:51am PST | Modified: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 12:41pm
Stimulus fuels $21M project in S.F.'s Tenderloin
San Francisco Business Times - by J.K. Dineen

The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation will close financing and start construction this week on the $21 million rehabilitation of two senior-occupied buildings at 165 Turk St. and 249 Eddy St.

The projects, which are a block from each other in the Tenderloin neighborhood, will be San Francisco’s first construction project built with ARRA (“American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” or stimulus) funds. The projects received $11.1 million in stimulus money.

Both buildings house a 100 percent Section 8 low-income senior population. TNDC purchased the properties in 2007 because the buildings’ Section 8 contracts were set to expire in 2010 and the previous private owner expressed an interest in selling the buildings to a private investor who wanted to convert them to market rate housing. The potential conversion to market-rate rents would have displaced the senior resident population . . . .

Source: http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/03/01/daily75.html

[viewguysf]

Originally Posted by BTinSF

Source: http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/03/01/daily75.html

Another piece of good news for the Tenderloin--it's been gratifying to see the continuing improvements there over the past five years or so.

[BTinSF]

Friday, March 19, 2010
Millennium Partners revives S.F. highrise, museum
Exec: ‘Walking away was not an option’
San Francisco Business Times - by J.K. Dineen

Millennium Partners is dusting off plans for a highrise condo tower at 706 Mission St. in San Francisco after two years in which the financial crisis brought planning to a virtual halt.

The developer and San Francisco Redevelopment Agency staffers are preparing an environmental impact report and negotiating a revised development agreement that will likely head to the redevelopment board in April. Senior Project Manager Amy Neches said she hopes to have entitlements wrapped up early next year with construction starting in late 2011 or early 2012 . . . .

The project calls for Millennium Partners, which was responsible for the Four Seasons San Francisco, the Metreon and the Millennium Tower at 301 Mission St., to build a condo tower on a site made up of a 9,000-square-foot parcel the Redevelopment Agency owns and a 16,000-square-foot parcel the developers bought in 2006. The tower would house a 35,000- to 40,000-square-foot Mexican Museum, which the developers will build at no cost to the museum. Both the museum and condo tower would be connected to the historic Mercantile Building at 706 Mission St., a 1903 structure that the developers would restore. The height of the residential tower, which is being designed by Mexican architect Enrique Norton’s TEN Arquitectos and San Francisco-based Glenn Rescalvo of Handel Architects, would likely be between 450 and 550 feet.

Renewed progress on the project has in part been driven by District 9 Supervisor David Campos . . . .

Meanwhile, Rescalvo said the design team is busy working with planners on design and shadow studies. “The timing is right,” said Rescalvo. “If the building were to start within a year and a half, you could be in the market at the right time. Everybody is still timid but … it’s time to get people back to work, to get this stuff going again.”

The use of the Mercantile Building is still being decided. The ground floor will continue to be retail and will provide an entrance to the residential tower. The upper portion of the 100,000-square-foot building could become housing or accommodate a different cultural use. Current tenants include Yelp, which recently expanded into 50,000 square feet. The non-historic gold brick exterior on 706 Mission would be removed and the original exterior restored . . . .

Source: http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/03/22/story1.html

[peanut gallery]

I like the optimism. I hope it pans out and I hope we see renderings sometime soon.

[1977]

New Hotel With 150-Seat Restaurant Coming to Union Square

A new boutique hotel and restaurant from Personality Hotels (the folks behind the Hotel Union Square, Hotel Vertigo, Hotel Diva, etc.) is likely coming to 72 Ellis Street, one door over from Powell and across the street from John's Grill. Grub Street sees word today that hotelier Yvonne Lembi-Detert brings her new project before the Planning Commission this week, and seeing as it's on the consent calendar it is all but guaranteed approval. We doubt the planned, 2,400-square-foot restaurant in the ground floor is less than a year from opening, but you heard it here first, folks. No word yet as to a proposed operator, but let's hope it's something fun and not just another King of Thai Noodle or whatever.

Source:http://sanfrancisco.grubstreet.com/2010/03/new_hotel_with_150-seat_restau.html

[hi123]

YES! that lot seems like such a nuissance! A new hotel and restaurant will liven up that area even more

[BTinSF]

I'm unclear: Is this a new building or just a new use for an existing building?

[hi123]

It's a brand new building that will replace a surface parking lot.

[1977]

It is the lot just west of the Ellis St. Parking Garage near the Apple Store.

Here:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=72+ellis+s...result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAsQ8gEwAA