San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Island, in the water halfway between the city and Oakland, is being redeveloped with over two hundred apartments. Commuters on the Bay Bridge will have already noticed The Bristol Residences, a newly-clad apartment complex facing the East Bay. Now, groundbreaking has occurred and construction is underway for the Townhomes and the Flats residences.
San Francisco-based Stockbridge Capital Group and the developer Wilson Meany are jointly developing for the project. CAHill is responsible for construction.
Yerba Buena Island development map, image by BDE Architecture
Yerba Buena Island overview
The Bristol, imaged with the new Bay Bridge tower in the background
Yerba Buena Island development map, image by BDE Architecture
Yerba Buena Island mid-rise building, image by BDE Architecture
At full build-out, Yerba Buena will add 266 new residential units to the housing market. Of that, 14 below-market-rate homes for sale. These include two studios, six one-bedroom units, five two-bedroom units, and a three-bedroom home. Prices will range from $139,631 to $511,530 without parking, or $254,631 to $626,530 with parking. The City is taking applications now between now and Wednesday, November 10th at 5 PM. For information about how to apply, see the pamphlet here.
The Estate Homesites via Yerba Buena Island
News broke in late September that crews broke ground for the Townhomes and the Flats. Now, The Bristol, located at 301 Macalla Court, is readying for move-ins by early 2022. The building includes two floors of below-grade parking and five floors for 124 residential units spanning a quarter of a million square feet.
Hart Howerton is the design architect, with BDE Architecture as the architect of record, interiors by Meyer Davis and Edmonds + Lee Architects.
The Flats via Yerba Buena Island
The Flats is a series of luxurious buildings featuring fewer than ten units each, with a total of seven-nine boutique whole-floor residences The Townhomes will include 31 private residences spanning 2,100 to 4,200 square feet each.
The Townhomes via Yerba Buena Island
Construction progress on Yerba Buena Island
The Courtyard Townhomes will be a series of townhome-style structures with central courtyards starting at over 3,000 square feet. Last but not least, the Estate Homesites feature five special lots designated for mansions. Prices for each of the five lots start around $6 million. Buyers are encouraged to work with an architect of their choosing for a custom design.
Yerba Buena Homesite illustrated, rendering courtesy SFARMLS
Beyond the new housing, construction is affording pedestrian and cycling trails for a once inaccessible island, with 72 acres of parks and green space, trails, and access to a sandy beachfront. There will be a dog park, island club, and a 10,000 square foot private community gathering place designed by Aidlin Darling Design. Crews are also adding a new east-facing observation deck looking toward Oakland.
The Bristol from beside the Bay Bridge entrance to Yerba Buena Island
The project will also benefit from its proximity to the mixed-use district development by the same firms on Treasure Island, a man-made extension to Yerba Buena Island. Construction has already started on a few of the many structures that will populate Treasure Island, the Bay Area’s largest single development project with as many as eight thousand new apartments, hotel rooms, shops, and acres of public land.
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I assumed this was a park. What a waste of irreplaceable land.
Obscene use of this natural island. Shame on San Francisco. (Especially as the adjacent/connected man-made Island will have thousands of units.
Will they keep/rebuild the west facing Bay Bridge lookout?