New preliminary permits have been filed for the proposed 22-story tower at 2700 Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco’s Sunset District. The filing comes nearly two months after the first planning application for the 22-story iteration was submitted to the city’s planning department and nearly nine months after the sensational 50-story skyscraper was withdrawn. Housing America Partner and San Francisco Housing Development Corporation are jointly responsible for the project.
The team has invoked Assembly Bill 2011 to streamline the approval process, which requires ministerial by-right approval for affordable and mixed-income projects on commercial-zoned lands.
2700 Sloat Boulevard seen from Wawona Street, rendering by Solomon Cordwell Buenz
Construction is expected to cost around $223 million. The project application states that groundbreaking could start as early as November 2025, 11 months after the first applications were submitted, a shockingly fast timeline if achieved.
The 233-foot tall structure will yield around 459,000 square feet, including 413,750 square feet for housing, 10,500 square feet for retail, and 15,300 square feet for the 52-car garage. Additional parking will be included for 217 bicycles. Documents show the building is expected to create at least 446 apartments, including 207 units of affordable rental housing and 239 market-rate homes available for sale. Unit types will vary, with 94 studios, 173 one-bedrooms, 120 two-bedrooms, and 59 three-bedrooms.
2700 Sloat Boulevard aerial view, rendering by Solomon Cordwell Buenz
2700 Sloat Street, image via Google Satellite, outlined by SFYIMBY
Solomon Cordwell Buenz is responsible for the architecture. Renderings for the latest iteration of 2700 Sloat were first shared in December. The illustrations show setbacks extending from eight floors along Wawona Street to 22 stories along Sloat Boulevard.
The 0.87-acre property is located between Sloat Boulevard and Wawona Street between 45th and 46th Avenue. Residents will be across from the Westerly apartments, Java Beach at the Zoo, and the United Irish Cultural Center. The San Francisco Zoo will be just across Sloat Boulevard. Ocean Beach is two blocks away, across the Great Highway.
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I will repeat what I wrote in December, which is that the developer isn’t serious about this proposal, the previous 589-foot tall tower also wasn’t serious, and add that I would bet a substantial amount of money that this 22-story version will not break ground by Dec 2025.
Do you know what will be serious by the end of this year? The state of MUNI (it will be on its knees). With the forthcoming service cuts designed to address the $300+ million annual deficits beginning in July 2026, there is no way that this proposal, with only 52 parking spaces for cars created alongside 239 market-rate homes available for sale can be supported.
Some, if not most, of the high-earning buyers of those units will not only have a car, they will own two SUVs! They will not be riding the bus, nor will they be able to given the state that MUNI will be in once those 239 condos reach the market.
Or…. this project becomes the catalyst for this chunk of the city in which no more BS NIMBYism can claim building height as an issue. A 4-story project gets proposed, and the hoards come crying in that their precious views of overhead powerlines will be blocked.
The majority of Sunset is charmless and pretty fugly. Your home in Sunset might be cute, but the neighborhoods are abysmal and pretty lifeless, being majority pavement and severely car-centric.
Maybe, just maybe (and this is a very low-ball number) 2 stories shouldn’t be the average for well over 2,000 acres of space in a major city. As a means to worry about MUNI, we stop letting those cosplay city living and add proper density along MUNI-served neighborhoods.
So out of touch and opens the door to set precedent on no height restrictions. An abysmal failure. Trying to squeeze as many Apts as possible on the smallish parcel. STOP this now or the Sunset will be forever changed. Better to keep high rises where they already exist at SFSU and Stonestown. Why try to impact the Sloat neighborhood with this monstrosity. Stand up Sunset Residents or this will be your future. Where is your supervisor on this???
Would ~400 units paying property tax help fund MUNI and add riders? It would be surrounded by prop 13 subsidized homes that aren’t paying much.
While overall I am very pro housing development, and quite open to high rises, I think this project is strange and don’t see it penciling out.
Can we please just focus on densifying SoMa and downtown? We already have the infrastructure necessary there and SoMa is vastly under zoned and could/should support tens of thousands of units. In fact, there’s probably enough room there to build all the mandated units there alone, without impacting any other part of the city.
We could definitely densify the whole city, not sure why the Sunset should continue to be hands off.
You can build 100,000 units in SOMA but that doesn’t mean there are 100,000 (or more realistically 200,000) people looking to move into them.
The 59 families who will move in to these 59 three-bedrooms might not stay in San Francisco if the only new housing available is in soma. That’s why it’s important that the city allows developers to build throughout the city so that we can grow in all areas.
“I don’t see this project penciling out” – proceeds to list opinions, perceptions and vibes –
I liked the 50 story tower better actually
I don’t understand how anyone thinks north-facing balconies open to the west will ever get any use. Seems like the architects have never been to the area?
I thought the same thing, but imagine it’s a way to make the step down into lower height and SFH territory slightly more comfortable/gradual. As usually, balconies are being used as dressing and not thoughtfully considered.
Take your building and your NIBMY attitude and leave town. We don’t want you screwing with the West side.
I think this building is genuinely beautiful and I am excited to see it go up! I hope San Francisco builds an elevated rail so that we can watch all the new skyscrapers in the sunset go up while we’re on the move
Looks great! Hopefully we see more of this in the sunset. There are a lot of terrible depressing streets that need to be fully improved with new construction. Too much ticky tacky cookie cutter rn