Just over a year after the official groundbreaking ceremony, crews have topped out the five-story affordable educator housing development at 1360 43rd Avenue in San Francisco’s Sunset District. The Shirley Chisholm Village has replaced a former school and outdoor yard with the low-rise apartment infill designed by BAR Architects with G7A. MidPen Housing is the project developer, and Cahill is the general contractor.
Shirley Chisholm Village Educator Housing seen from 43rd Avenue and Judah Street, image by author
Shirley Chisholm Village Educator Housing exterior, rendering by BAR Architecture
The 55-foot tall structure will yield 165,860 square feet with 142,460 square feet for housing, 1,750 square feet for public amenities, and 21,650 square feet for the 50-car garage. Parking will also be included for 68 bicycles. The complex will create 135 apartments, one of which will be for the on-site manager. Unit sizes will vary, with 24 studios, 43 one-bedrooms, 59 two-bedrooms, and nine three-bedrooms. KPFF is the structural engineer, and Emerald City is the MEP engineer.
Of the 134 affordable houses, 34 units will be restricted to low-income qualified educators earning between 40 to 60 percent of the Area Median Income. The remaining 100 units will be for moderate-income qualified educators earning between 80 to 120 percent of the Area Median Income.
Shirley Chisholm Village Educator Housing site map, rendering by BAR Architecture
Shirley Chisholm Village Educator Housing amenity space, rendering by BAR Architecture
BAR Architects is the project architect in collaboration with G7A. The exterior will be clad with fiber cement siding installed horizontally and vertically, plaster, and wood siding. The design articulates the expansive facade to break up the scale visually and reference the surrounding architectural vernacular. Fletcher Studio will be responsible for the landscape architecture, which will include a central residential courtyard, a podium-top deck, and a community plaza along 43rd Avenue.
Shirley Chisholm Village Educator Housing entry, rendering by BAR Architecture
Shirley Chisholm Village Educator Housing overlooking 42nd Avenue, image by author
Shirley Chisholm Village Educator Housing morning activity from along 43rd Avenue and Irving Street, image by author
Crews demolished the former Francis Scott Key Annex school site built in 1927. The annex has been abandoned since being deemed seismically unsound. The proposal for housing on the 1.4-acre site has been in the works for over two decades but finally gained momentum when, in 2017, Mayor Ed Lee committed $44 million of funding for the project. Construction started in September last year. Shirley Chisholm Village is expected to take its first residents in by next year.
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Let’s geter done
Just visited SF from Seattle. I’ve repeatedly read on YIMBY how the Sunset is a privileged enclave that needs more density. I was very surprised by how dense (small lots, attached homes) it is compared to Seattle neighborhoods. The Sunset would be the densest neighborhoods in Seattle with the exception of downtown.
The issue with Sunset, the neighborhood is seriously dense, much better than most cities, but they are mostly one family to a building.
Given the state of SF and all the resources around it, the population held within SF is pathetically low. As far as the balance of supply and demand, the scale outweighs the supply to the point that, no kidding, SF is overrun with homeless and nowhere for service industry workers to live.
Insane commutes, absurd living costs, terrible congestion, low quality of life, and more simply because we don’t build enough homes.
I’m looking for affordable apartments (BMR)
Great that more housing is being created. To bad so much cost and 21,600 sq ft space was wasted on housing for unnecessary items in a public transit available area