New building permits have been filed for an eight-story residential infill at 700 Golden Gate Avenue in the Fillmore District of San Francisco. The proposal would replace a surface parking lot with 75 new apartments by Van Ness Avenue and City Hall. While an applicant is not listed, a State Government Department owns the property.
Public records shared by the San Francisco Chronicle show that the California Employment Development Department is the property owner. The surface parking lot is a permit-only facility for the Department’s adjacent four-story office building at 801 Turk Street. It is unclear as of now if the adjacent property will be involved. The closed surface parking lot is owned by Giannini Properties No. 1, an LLC linked with the Mill Valley-based investor firm IMT Capital.
Along with 75 homes, the building permit describes new office space, assembly space, and on-site parking.
In 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order for the HCD to identify underutilized state-owned land that could be converted into housing. A recent press release from the governor’s office remarks that the state is on track to bring 5,550 housing units on state-owned land across California.
The property is one block from 807 Franklin Street, where owner Brown & Company moved an 1882-built Victorian home to make way for an eight-story infill. The historic home now stands at 635 Fulton Street, though construction never started on the 48-unit apartment infill.
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Great location for more housing considering the area is full of transit.
A little shy in terms of height, but absolutely a welcome addition to the area.
It reminds me; has the approved (and maybe funded) 600 McAllister just down the street gotten a construction timeline yet?
There are so many underutilized lots in SF. If SF really does become a pro-development city, as it looks like might be starting to happen, and all of those parking lots and single story commercial buildings turn into six stories on average, the city will be truly incredible…long after we are all gone in the year 2100 or so.
Why only 8 stories… why are we so allergic to height?
San Francisco is fast becoming a highrise apartment building jungle consisting of low and high income occupants with the middle income being pushed out! We should be constructing housing similar to the development between Carl and Frederick Street and Arguello and Willard streets which I believe has restrictions on resale values cost?
San Francisco is fast becoming a highrise apartment building jungle consisting of low and high income occupants with the middle income being pushed out! We should be constructing housing similar to the development between Carl and Frederick Street and Arguello and Willard streets which I believe has restrictions on resale values cost?
San Francisco is fast becoming a highrise apartment building jungle consisting of low and high income occupants with the middle income being pushed out! We should be constructing housing similar to the development between Carl and Frederick Street and Arguello and Willard streets which I believe has restrictions on resale values cost?