The Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development has announced an official Request for Qualifications, seeking potential development partners to build at 1979 Mission Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. The property had previously seen the ‘Monster in the Mission’ proposal, a contentious ten-story apartment by Maximus. Now, the city-owned lot will become 100% affordable housing thanks to an agreement with Crescent Heights, the developer behind a 55-story proposal in The Hub.
The previous plans for 1979 Mission Street by Maximus
The ROQ shares that the city wants to build “permanently affordable rental housing to include units serving formerly homeless households (families and adults), and groundfloor commercial use servicing the surrounding neighborhood.” In a brief hint at the scale of the future project, the city describes that “the site has significant development opportunity with capacity for more than 450 units in at least two buildings.”
1979 Mission Street, image via Google Street View
Following the end of plans by Maximus for 1979 Mission Street, Crescent Heights purchased the lot for $42 million in 2022. The developer agreed to give ownership of the lot to the city in lieu of adding affordable housing to its proposed 1,012-unit tower at 10 South Van Ness. Once the city and the prospective developer are finished with constriction, the city will transfer the site to the developer. Earlier this year, the city’s Department of Homelessness & Supportive Housing submitted plans to temporarily populate the surface parking on site with 70 tiny homes.
Submissions are due by September 29th. For more information about the ROQ, visit the city website here.
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I never understood the problem with the “monster in the mission” proposal. It’s literally adjacent to a BART stop that has the capacity of up to 2,000 people per 10-car train that runs every 5-10 mins. I gotta say though that the branding of “monster in the mission” to reject the proposal, was stellar, even if I wholeheartedly disagree.
My fear is that developers at 10 South Van Ness will pull out and this lot will continue to sit empty.
I’ll never under stand why gentrifying mission street is unacceptable, but valencia street it’s a-ok.
They gave the city the porperty, they never said they’d develop it. Nobody wants to develop there because 100% affordable housing has no profit in it. if the city would dump a few homeless non profits they could build thier own contatruction crews and build without being ripped off by contractors. but the politicians in SF aren’t at that level of intelligence and organization yet.
Seconding Anthony. 10 stories should be on the low end next to a BART stop. People need to stop being anchored by a neighborhood’s current appearance.
The city should invite Crescent Heights as a partner. They purchased most of Miami Beach over the past two decades, displacing the elderly population and constructing 50-story condos and hotels for the nouveau riche gen Y/Z. Big glass towers are their specialty. I wonder how they’d like dealing with Calle 24 and vice versa.