Oscar James Residences has officially opened its doors at 151 and 351 Friedell Street in San Francisco’s Hunters Point Shipyard. The project team and public officials gathered late last week to celebrate the completion of over a hundred affordable units across two five-story buildings. Jonathan Rose Companies and Bayview Senior Services are jointly responsible for the development.
Jonathan F.P. Rose, President of Jonathan Rose Companies, shared at the ribbon-cutting event that the “Oscar James Residences, developed in partnership with Bayview Senior Services, embodies the kind of purpose-driven development that is essential for the revitalization of neighborhoods.”
Oscar James Residences ribbon-cutting ceremony, image courtesy project team
Cathy Davis, Executive Director of Bayview Senior Services, added that “to see it finally come to fruition in the Shipyard is a great boost for the community and we are honored to be able to name it after Oscar James, a living example of community work in action.”
Of the 112 apartments, there will be 49 one-bedrooms, 31 two-bedrooms, 23 three-bedrooms, eight four-bedrooms, and one five-bedroom unit. The units are designated as affordable to families earning between 30% and 50% of the area’s median income.
Mithun is the project architect, working with general contractors Baines Group Inc. and Nibbi. John Stewart Company will act as the property manager.
Hunters Point Shipyard Block 54, rendering by Mithun
Hunters Point Shipyard aerial view with Blocks 52 and 54 property outlined in yellow
The development cost $132.9 million, with nearly half of the financing provided by the state’s Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure.
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Almost 1.2 mil per unit?
Average cost of subsidized housing in Oakland is $700k-$1.2m per unit.
SF gives a over billion a year to various non-profits, which we know are filled with grift and fraud. How about we spend $500M/year of that money on buildings like this, create a neighborhood of high quality, low-income housing in Hunter’s Point / Candlestick, and move the thousands of people into those buildings and out of terrible SRO apartments in the TL and Soma. Every city has has poor people, but SF gives itself a huge headache by having these SROs directly in the middle of downtown!
Agreed. There’s been over a half-century of policy failure in the Tenderloin. The best thing that could happen to the Tenderloin –and the City more broadly — would be to transform the Tenderloin into the urban gem that it should be through a massive gentrification effort.
Those SRO’s need to be condemned. It’s a completely out of date flophouse model from 100 years ago when single men were working six days a week. Horrible conditions and people end up standing around on the street because it’s better than being inside their awful room. Just move people into ~250 square foot studios which give people modern amenities and technology and see how it helps them. Candlestick gives them sunshine, a place to walk. Then allow those SRO hotels to be sold off, remodeled and sold as condos or apartments.
Completely agree. Much higher quality of life for people that do nothing anyway (they don’t work, let’s be real.) I know several people in SROs and they would love to have modern amenities so they can freely exist with pleasant surroundings (unlike the Loin.)
How long before the residents start glowing in the dark??
funny, but really, it doesn’t matter. Most of us will be dead before we start “glowing in the dark.” AI is coming fast and it will kill us off.
So questionable navy radioactive clean up is best served on the poverty line.
I know it’s fun to spread disinformation on the internet but it’s very easy to Google the status of the HP parcels and find out that the ones that have been developed didn’t have the shipbuilding on them and thus no radioactive material has been found. It’s way, way more hazardous to live in Benicia inhaling all the wonderful byproducts of gasoline production there.
$133,000,000 for 112 apartments is $1,700,000 PER APARTMENT. One more government scam. And let me bet: no parking?
Correction: Almost $1.2 per apartment. (Fat finger error.)
Over $1.0 million/unit????? Where’s my cut?
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