At the start of this year, preliminary details surfaced to potentially replace the park-side gas station with housing at 1200 La Playa Street in San Francisco‘s Sunset District. Permits filed earlier this month show the owners have shifted gears, with a project review meeting requested to construct a new home for the convenience store.
The previous application was drafted by ARCUS Architecture + Planning, showing potential schemes to add between ten and 30 dwellings from the corner lot. With this most recent application, the neighborhood will miss out on a possible mid-density residential infill.
1200 La Playa Street, elevation by MI Architects
Walnut Creek-based MI Architects is responsible for the design. Details shared by the city’s Planning Department state the project scope features a new 2,030 square foot convenience store, a 1,450 square foot canopy, and a twenty thousand gallon underground storage tank for fuel. Elevations for the structure show an unpleasant contemporary retail-style facade with classical pilasters and stone veneer framing the customer entrance.
The gas station is located across from 1234 Great Highway, a three-story 60-key motel that the city plans to replace with 216 low-income senior housing units developed by TNDC. The project is one of five projects that will add over five hundred affordable units assisted by MOHCD in neighborhoods with minimal new development.
Ed Hadad is the property owner. Public records show the site last sold in 2010 for $750,000.
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We can’t afford to lose any more gas stations in the City…it’s hard enough to find one as it is.
And why can’t all gas stations, if large enough, add charging stations?
I’m not an electric car fan, but they are here to stay.
Without taking a position regarding the need (or lack of need) for gas stations, re: electric Level 3/DC Fast Chargers, I’d comment that they actually need a decent amount of space because of both 1) the large transformers and 2) the tricky maneuvering/parking situations in a cramped area. I also find that a site with just 2 or 4 DCFC are more annoying than they’re worth as people queue to wait for the next charger, blocking other drivers. So adding them to an existing tight gas-station site where ICE car drivers are jockeying in and out while EV drivers are also jockeying would not be good.
As an EV driver I’m fortunate to be able to Level 2 charge when I need it at our condo garage but the best fast-charger situation I’ve seen in the city are in the Whole Foods parking garages where they’re indoors (out of the weather) plus you have a guaranteed fast turnover of people plugging in, doing their shopping in 20-30 minutes, then they unplug and leave.
What a bizarre world we live in where even an obscure local real-estate blog gets the MAGA trolls coming in. My 7th grader can find gas stations on a map. You are a deeply unserious person (if you even are a person)
Um, I don’t see any basis to assume that Ed (the OP) is not sincere in his belief that San Francisco needs to keep the same number of gas stations as it has currently. One can disagree, but I urge you not to assume ill will with no evidence. And his comment had nothing to do with *finding* gas stations, just how many there should be.
And see my comment below that whether or not that site keeps a gas station, there’s no reason it couldn’t also incorporate housing as in many other countries.
Terrible news! 1) it’s an ugly af gas station. 2) there should be density of some sort on this lot so close to the ocean. Perfect example of why we need property taxes on land value. Not present use.
agreed 100% on taxes on land value
Should definitely be housing they can build a housing complex and put the grocery store in the bottom .
In many parts of the world they put gas stations on the ground floor of a residential building, sort of a Porte Cochair (sp?) set up. Why not here? Allow the gas station use to stay, and put 4-5 stories of housing on top?
US fire codes are so much more restrictive than the rest of the developed world which can result in underutilized sites like this one.
booooooooo