Plans have been filed for a small office-to-housing conversion at 1947 Divisadero Street in Lower Pacific Heights, San Francisco. The application will create four apartments on the top two floors of the 88-year-old three-story structure. MC Construction LLC is listed as the property owner.
The three-story structure was originally built in 1937 as a residential infill with five apartments. The applicant states the structure was converted for commercial use in 1984, with the five dwellings becoming five office suites. The plan will revert to four apartments on the second and third floors, while retaining the ground-level retail and office suite.
1947 Divisadero Street third-level floor plan, illustration by GLB Architects
Sonoma County-based GLB Architects is responsible for the design. Each apartment will span nearly 1,000 square feet, featuring three bedrooms, one and a half bathrooms, and in-unit laundry.
The singular 0.07-acre lot is located along Divisadero Street between California and Pine Street. Future residents will be conveniently located near several shops, just four blocks from Fillmore Street and five blocks from Geary Boulevard. Construction is expected to cost around $200,000, a figure not inclusive of all development costs.t
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The key piece of information that would be most enlightening to know is: how long were the five office suites vacant before the owner decided to convert them back to the original housing?
Seems like a good thing to do, but one think I have noticed, as a small business owner, is that small, inexpensive office spaces such as what this building offered, are in extremely short supply in San Francisco. We should be careful not to eliminate all of it in service of the imaginary “housing crisis.”
The San Francisco Examiner reported that a full-time worker needs to earn $61.50 per hour, or roughly $127,000 annually, to afford a rental home at 30% of income. This means that roughly 30% of that salary, or about $3,200, would go towards a two-bedroom apartment.
Tell me, which service industry is sustainable paying its workers well over $40 an hour? Housing crisis in regards that the backbone of a functioning city have to live an hour out because the supply is so f’ed.
“Housing crisis”
How many hundreds of more people packed under highways need to be shoved in sardine cans to prove this issue is critical? It’s inhumane and we’re crying about dumb office space that’s clearly underutilized. Wow…
Your trickle-down Reaganomic Voodoonomics were shot down in the 80s.
Frisky is a NIMBY.
No, not really. I am a MIMBY (Maybe in My Back Yard).
Office occupancy in SF is still down 60% relative to pre-Covid. The notion that this should not convert to housing is absurd.
NIMBYs have terrible arguments and are economically illiterate.
You are clearly immune nuance and cannot read or think critically. I can’t afford to rent an entire floor of a skyscraper downtown. What I need is a small 250 to 300 sf office in an old building with cheap rents. Like this one. There is a demand for this kind of space. That’s why you don’t find it available in any sizable quantity. Not everyone can work in a cafe.
Office occupancy in SF is still down 60% relative to pre-Covid. The notion that this should not convert to housing is absurd.
NIMBYs have terrible arguments.