A project review meeting has been requested for a 14-story proposal at 2812-2830 Mission Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. The project will bring just over a hundred apartments to two parcels overlooking the 24th Street BART Station. Philip Lesser is responsible for the application and filing through the San Mateo-based Lesser Enterprises LLC.
The preliminary application describes a 137-foot-tall structure spanning nearly 90,000 square feet of floor area. The top floors will create 106 apartments across 85,950 square feet for residential use. The ground level may include around 2,380 square feet, a reduction from the existing 5,200 square feet of commercial space. The project will request the merger of two parcels.
A certain number of units will be designated as affordable housing as part of the state density bonus project and permit streamlining. The application uses Assembly Bill 1287, a 2024-enacted law that allows developers to stack density bonuses and achieve as much as a 100% density increase above base zoning. The specific concessions and waivers to be requested are not specified.
Illustrations have yet to be shared for the proposal.
2812-2830 Mission Street, image via Google Street View
Lesser is one of the city’s prominent permit expeditors, helping developers navigate the city’s notoriously byzantine planning department. He was the subject of a 2012 profile by Rigoberto Hernandez for Mission Local. In the article, Hernandez describes Lesser’s vision for the Mission as market-driven and summarizes his view that “Mission buildings should be transformed from their antiquated roles into what the market demands. These days, that’s restaurants…”
The 0.15-acre project site is located along Mission Street between 24th and 25th Street. The northern property line overlooks the city’s busy 24th Street BART Station. The site is close to the Carnegie-built public library at 300 Bartlett Street, where crews are overseeing the renovations and expansion of the historic civic landmark.
Demolition will be required for two single-story commercial buildings, occupied by a taqueria and bank. The estimated cost and timeline for construction have yet to be shared. Lesser has yet to reply to a request for comment by YIMBY.
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Should be the minimum near every BART station.
Agreed, every station from the Mission to Concord and Castro Valley, but especially in the Mission.
Taqueria San Jose used to be one of my regular old standbys, but yes – this site should be high density housing. Hopefully they can rent a ground floor retail space in the building!
The entire BART entrance should sit under a tower. What a waste of space.
Indeed. In NYC, that is common. People with jobs in the tower don’t have to even go outdoors from disembarking the trail to their office.
Yes. Double the project. Enforce the maximum amount of below market rate units and then double it again on the other corner. Zero-story BART stations serve no purpose. Especially when the current use is theft markets.
I always wonder why YIMBY fails to note the architect on the projects it lists. Anyone have any insight?
It’s like buying an artwork, but they only tell you the name of the gallery, not the artist.
Not sure the architect is known yet. Not renderings or plans have been shared to the public yet either.
” A certain number of units will be designated as affordable housing ”
A “certain amount” of 100% afterthought to addressing the actual problem, AFTER DEVELOPER PROFITS.
Or did you think they hired permit expediters to help low income families in YIMBY land? Please.
No conspiracy my guy. Just financing and feasibility. Any/all projects have to conform to required inclusion of BMR housing.
Mac Truong is a NIMBY who doesn’t realize how the real world works.
This could not happen soon enough.
Hopefully we avoid the same fate that’s cursed the 16th St BART station and 22nd & Mission (years of delays and ignorant smear campaigns caused by that tiny contingent of permanently angry 100%-affordable-or-nothing people).
About time. Look at all the low-slung crap nearby.
We need affordable social housing here, not more luxury housing for the rich.
It’s a shame the Activists in the Mission destroyed the 16th and Mission project to only demand a measly 6 story 100% affordable. Why don’t the do 6 stories affordable and another 10 stories market on top of that. The Bart stations should have HUGE buildings around them. Looking to the future everything has to go up!