Development permits have been submitted seeking the approval of a hotel to housing project proposed for development at 50 8th Street in South of Market (SoMa), San Francisco. The project proposal includes the conversion of some hotel rooms of a tourist hotel, BEI San Francisco, into group housing rooms
New Civic Company LTD is the project sponsor. Arcus Architecture + Planning is responsible for the designs.
The scope of work includes the conversion of 120 existing tourist hotel rooms on the 7th, 8th, and 9th floor of a tourist hotel to 111 group housing rooms. The proposed project will provide 20,209 square feet of common open space, 15,181 square feet of open space and 2,685 square feet of communal kitchen area. The project seeks to use the 100% Affordable Housing Bonus Program by providing all group housing units at rates affordable to households up to 120% of the area’s median income. The remainder of the building will remain a tourist hotel.
A project review meeting has been scheduled to review the project plans. The estimated construction timeline has not been announced yet.
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There are now multiple residential sites that have stopped construction in the area and until we really build affordable housing this site will be just another expensive highrise apartment building that no one can afford.we also needs to address the homeless crisis and crime and lack of food outlets, convenient stores, and restaurants to name a few.
Check the post again — I don’t think this will be an expensive high rise.
“ The project seeks to use the 100% Affordable Housing Bonus Program by providing all group housing units at rates affordable to households up to 120% of the area’s median income.”
I was hoping this was a new building proposal for the surface parking lot seen in the image, but was sadly mistaken. The parking lot really needs to be filled in with something actually productive, definitely a leftover from the Trinity Motel days.