Formal permits have been filed for the seven-story residential infill at 173 Shipley Street in SoMA, San Francisco. The application has invoked the State Density Bonus Law and Senate Bill 330 to streamline the approval for the 13-unit apartment building. Pew Property Group is listed as the project applicant, filing through a Laguna Beach-based LLC.
Details about the project have not changed since the preliminary application was filed last December. The seven-story infill is expected to rise 75 feet tall, containing 20,370 square feet of housing and 1,880 square feet for parking. The nine-car garage will utilize stackers to provide more space-efficient storage. Additional space will be set aside for storing nine bicycles. Unit sizes will vary with six one-bedrooms, five two-bedrooms, and two three-bedrooms.
173 Shipley Street cross-section, illustration by RG Architecture
173 Shipley Street Rear View, image by RG Architects
The developer has requested a few zoning waivers and concessions to increase residential capacity, including limits on parking, bay window requirements, and limits on open space, height, and rear yard sizes. The applicant will provide one ownership unit that is affordable to a very-low income households.
RG Architecture is responsible for the design. The exterior will be clad with brick veneer, fiber-cement siding, and wood soffits. The complex will include a four-level bay window overlooking the narrow street. Two rear setbacks will carve out a portion of the complex, allowing more light into the adjacent parcel.
173 Shipley Street, image via Google Street View
The roughly 0.1-acre property is located along Shipley Street between 4th Street and 5th Street. Future residents will be close to I-80 and four blocks away from the Powell Street BART Station.
Construction is estimated to cost $5.5 million, a figure not inclusive of all development costs.
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13 homes, of which there used to be none.
It’s not pushing the needle of demand, but it’s a world’s improvement on the streetscape. Chainlink fencing has no place in a city. Just a shame SF is plagued by garage doors. But nothing is worse than underutilized grey pavement in a city.
Preach. I am 100 percent with you on this. Build it!
Every infill to a missing middle that the city builds makes a whole lot of improvements to the neighborhood character alongside reduction of overall rent costs
This is a huge improvement to neighborhood character.
Shipley is a glorified alley but at least it’s near Whole Foods.