Updated plans have been filed for an affordable senior housing project at 375 Laguna Honda Boulevard in San Francisco. The latest application moves away from initial plans for a circular complex to a more typical podium complex and reduces the overall capacity from over two hundred units to 159 units. Mercy Housing is the project developer.
375 Laguna Honda Boulevard facade elevation, illustration by Herman Coliver Locus Architecture
The roughly 68-foot-tall structure is expected to yield around 124,920 square feet, including 78,070 square feet of housing, 1,740 square feet of medical facilities, and 8,200 square feet for the daycare and senior center. Parking will be included for 31 cars and 14 bicycles. The project will consist of 158 one-bedroom affordable apartments and a two-bedroom apartment for the on-site property manager.
Herman Coliver Locus Architecture is responsible for the design. The ground floor will feature several residential amenities wrapped around a community courtyard. The exterior will be wrapped with fiber cement lap siding, plaster, and cast-in-place concrete.
375 Laguna Honda Boulevard site map, illustration by Herman Coliver Locus Architecture
Laguna Honda Hospital Senior Housing site, image via Google Satellite
The updated pre-application aims to utilize Senate Bill 330 and SB 423 to streamline the approval process. The parcel will be subdivided from the larger Laguna Housing Hospital parcel to be ground-leased to Mercy Housing.
Design Studios Gonzalo Castro is overseeing the construction management. The estimated cost and timeline for construction have yet to be shared.
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Forgive my ignorance, it seems like every time there is a major new housing news in San Francisco – it’s always “affordable” “senior” housing. Why are we going after seniors so aggressively?
Why aren’t we ever building “affordable” housing for young people – baristas, uber drivers, servers?
It’s ALWAYS senior housing. if we are subsiding housing for one group, why not others? I’d rather my city streets full of life and vigor, and I want housing infrastructure to support that.
First: No new market-rate housing is moving forward right now.
Second: There is a lot of new subsidized housing being built for families (e.g. 1515 SVN, transbay 2), transitional youth, supportive housing for formerly homeless, etc. Senior housing is critical, as many seniors have no more options – depleted savings, medical issues so can’t work any more, etc.
As for life & vigor, seniors are cool. Wisdom, stories, perspective, and overlooked talents and trades. Seniors and kids make a city real – as opposed to a mall for millennial phone zombies.
We’ll all be seniors some day so be thankful this housing exists before you need it yourself.