An updated Final Environmental Impact Report has been published for a sprawling urban redevelopment of the former California Pacific Medical Center campus at 3700 California Street in San Francisco’s Presidio Heights. The proposal looks to add nearly five hundred apartments across three blocks and over a dozen separate buildings. Prado Group is responsible for the application.
3700 California Street view at Cherry Street, rendering of design by BDE Architecture and Handel Architects
The city’s planning department issued the addendum earlier this month, adding to the previous Final EIR that had been certified in February of 2020. Prado Group purchased the entitlements for the campus from TMG Partners and Grosvenor in late 2022 for $51.5 million. The latest modifications call for the demolition of five of the six existing hospital buildings, adaptive reuse of the Marshal Hale hospital building at 3698 California Street, and retention of 401 Cherry Street.
Construction is expected to add 493 apartments across four apartment complexes, 74 assisted living/memory care units, and 15 three-story single-family homes. The existing nine units at 401 Cherry Street will be retained. Apartment types will vary with 49 studios, 212 one-bedrooms, 201 two-bedrooms, and 16 three-bedrooms. Each of the single-family homes will contain four bedrooms. The total parking capacity will reach 488 units across several garages.
3700 California Street apartments overlooking California Street, rendering of design by BDE Architecture and Handel Architects
3700 California Street updated design (left) and 2019-submitted design (right)
BDE Architecture and Handel Architects are jointly responsible for the design. Illustrations show a streamlined classical architectural style looking similar to the previous plans drafted by Robert AM Stern Architects. The tallest structure will be eight stories tall, with two seven-story apartments and one five-story structure. Block C will include 157 apartments and 74 assisted living and memory care units within a medical care facility.
The roughly five-acre campus is located betwee California Street and Sacramento Street, four blocks from the former UCSF campus 3333 California Street property, which Prado Group is looking to redevelop into housing with SKS Partners.
3700 California Street site map, illustration by BDE Architecture and Handel Architects
3700 California Street site overview outlined by the project team, image via Google Satellite
Construction is expected to take around 40 months for full build-out, with the three blocks built across three phases.
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Looks good to me! About time the City and the neighbors allow this to get built.
Wow! Such a huge upgrade to this already great neighborhood. BUILD IT NOW!
It’s heartwarming to see a developer hire an architect who considers contextual design. The renderings look like the buildings belong there. It’s heartbreaking for me and my neighbors to look at the apartment complex that was built at Stanyan and Haight. It is so ugly and out of place. It looks like a hospital. I get tears in my eyes when I think of how much the neighbors tried to influence the developer to give us something that fits with it’s surroundings. All the public presentations were phony. Just an exercise. People come and go but the buildings will be there forever.