New building permits have been filed for the approved affordable housing project at 250 Laguna Honda Boulevard in San Francisco. Plans were approved in late October for the eight-story residential complex with a mix of affordable and supportive units. Mission Housing is the project developer.
250 Laguna Honda Boulevard aerial rear view, rendering by LDP Architects
250 Laguna Honda Boulevard side view, rendering by LDP Architects
The eight-story complex is expected to yield around 212,730 square feet, including 187,200 square feet of housing and 6,070 square feet of parking. The garage will provide space for 14 cars and 65 bicycles. Of the 172 units, sizes will vary with 42 one-bedrooms, 86 two-bedrooms, and 44 three-bedrooms. Open space will be available with the rear courtyard and the publicly accessible front courtyard.
According to the application, a quarter of all units will be supportive housing for formerly unhoused individuals and families. On-site services will be provided by Mission Housing and the Lutheran Social Services, funded by MOHCD and private grants.
250 Laguna Honda Boulevard aerial overview, rendering by LDP Architects
LDP Architects is responsible for the design. Illustrations show the complex will conform to the irregularly-shaped parcel with a mostly linear floor plan and several setbacks to break up the long facade visually.
The property was one of five sites chosen by the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development for the construction of at least five hundred units, though several increased applications now look to produce at least 610 units. The city agency purchased 1234 Great Highway, 249 Pennsylvania Avenue, 250 Laguna Honda Boulevard, 3300 Mission Street, and 650 Divisadero Street in 2023 through the Site Acquisition and Predevelopment Financing NOFA.
250 Laguna Honda Boulevard existing condition, illustration by LDP Architects
250 Laguna Honda Boulevard church, image via Google Street View
The 1.62-acre property is located along Laguna Honda Boulevard between Forest Hill and the Twin Peaks terraces. Future residents will be close to the Forest Hill Muni light rail station, connecting West Portal and the Castro.
Construction is expected to cost around $91 million. The estimated construction timeline has not yet been established.
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You get a block! And you get a block! Everyone gets building blocks!
Sure, why not?
Is there a term yet for this heavily modulated style of architecture? We wouldn’t have to put up with it if San Francisco would remove the 4 pages on modulation and facade articulation from their 94 page long architectural code. The purpose of the code is to maintain San Francisco’s architectural integrity, but ironically it does the exact opposite.
All of you that seem to knock this contemporary style need to move on. It’s a style that many have acceptyed and actually like. It’s not taking away from the ‘integrity’ of San Francisco’s architecture. It’s location is great for this style and location near a light rail station. Get a grip.
I put up with a lot of mediocre architecture. So much of California contemporary is basically defined by stucco break lines, a funky color pallet, and a bulky collection of massing.
Some architects rock it, some shouldn’t be designing facades. You can be YIMBY and understand that first render is chaotically ugly. There’s no rhythm. No reason. Splashes of color thrown on top of random massing. And if purely looking at it through a sustainability lense, this project will be a massive waste of construction materials if the details aren’t flushed out. Seeing the architecture be unsure of what it wants to be, the tone is precautious.
A complex of homes near the Colma BART station is wrapping up a months-long gut and redo of the entire facade for every single building. Looks like poor design compromised the waterproofing and tons of dumpsters have been brought to and from for a complex not even 20 years old. That’s woefully inadequate in this industry.
Like I said, those plywood-podium stackashacks are not meant to last. They are garbage from the day they are built. And a blight on the landscape. I can’t wait to see what all those podium junkboxes along 101 in South City are gonna look like in ten years. Covered in mold and soot with the underlying stick frame showing beneath the 1″ layer of dryvit.
In the 1920s San Francisco was building a lot of mid-sized concrete apartment buildings – many designed in the Art Deco or Spanish Colonial Revival style by H.C. Baumann – I that the Stock Market Crash had not stopped them from being built because we would need far fewer stackashacks now.
I’m all for housing on this spot, but the proposed building is too tall and (personally) it’s really ugly. Plus, the soil in the Marina might not support a building that heavy. The building also doesn’t even need to be that tall to have about the same amount of units if they didn’t have the middle plaza. Also guys, it seems as if some people commenting here din’t understand this, but the Safeway is already there, they aren’t building a new one and the closest other supermarket is pretty far down Chestnut St, so if they build it people will have to walk a lot further to get groceries while it’s being built. Again, I’m fine with more housing in the Marina, but this isn’t the right way to do it.
You’re commenting on the wrong entry. Also, it’s cute that you think anyone who has the wherewithal to build in this town isn’t well aware of underlying geological issues. (Before you say ‘Millennium Tower’ understand that was a unique circumstance of a developer failing to understand or just plain turning blind eye to impact from other construction nearby.)
And finally, it’s silly to sound the alarm on ‘lack of grocery access’ when there are numerous small markets plus Trader Joe’s and soon to be a Grocery Outlet nearby. The Bayview this ain’t.
Sounds like it’s not the right place for you to live. Feel free to live somewhere else.
The hypocrisy, ordinary family trying to renovate to bring the front of the house stairs compliant with ADA are not allowed to in this neighborhood. Why?! They are labeled historical. So the elderly living must struggle. Yet, here these monstrosity can be built only 1 block over