Construction is now underway for the nine-story affordable senior housing complex at 967 Mission Street in SoMa, San Francisco. BGI and Nibbi have started excavation on the former surface parking lot in preparation for the 95-unit residential infill. The development is sponsored by the MOHCD, following the property’s dedication to the city by the developers of 5M.
967 Mission Street, rendering by LMS Architects
The nine-story structure is expected to yield around 72,600 square feet. The complex will include 94 units of affordable housing for households earning less than 50% of the area’s median income and one on-site property manager’s apartment. A quarter of the units will be set aside for formerly homeless seniors. Unit types will vary, with 63 studios and 32 one-bedrooms. Residential amenities will include a laundry facility, community space, a rooftop deck, and offices for on-site supportive services.
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects is the design architect, working with associate architect Y.A. Studio. According to LMS Architects, the firm has collaborated with local artists to integrate exterior murals and patterns to honor SOMA Pilipinas, the city’s Filipino Cultural Heritage District.
967 Mission Street lobby, rendering by LMS Architects
967 Mission Street facade elevations, renderings by LMS Architects
John Stewart Company and the Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services are jointly responsible for the development as owners.
The property was dedicated to the city for affordable housing as part of the 5M development agreement signed by Brookfield Properties and Hearst Corporation. The full 5M master plan is expected to transform four blocks around the newspaper’s headquarters with 856 apartments, over 800,000 square feet of office space, retail, and public open space. So far, the joint venture has completed an office tower, The George at 434 Minna Street, and a public park.
The roughly quarter-acre property is located a few doors west of The George and the San Francisco Chronicle headquarters. Future residents will be just two blocks from the Powell Street BART Station or the Yerba Buena Gardens.
967 Mission Street, image by author
Construction is expected to last around two years. The application process for future housing has not yet been launched.
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Anything but a surface parking lot / chain link fence / barbed wire. Also, perhaps some people living in SROs will move into higher quality housing.
San Francisco should have a goal of ending the SRO program. What started as cheap housing for miners or other migrating workers 150 years ago – often single men – has turned into a terrible situation. Most people don’t know that the crowds of people lingering late at night as part of the night-time drug markets are *not* homeless – they just live in awful conditions in SROs and would rather be hanging out outside. The SRO hotel situation in the Tenderloin is a great example of progressives’ compassion gone wrong. They want to help people in need but end up creating a very bad situation for not only the people they are trying to help, but also those around them.
I think you are confusing symptoms of America’s income inequality and severe housing crisis with perceived issues with single room occupancy buildings. SRO’s offer a great low cost housing option for people that can’t afford or don’t want an entire apartment for themselves, and they are much cheaper to maintain and build than larger apartment buildings. SF has definitely relied on them in Lieu of building more affordable housing options and we certainly need to offer more other public and private options so that SRO’s aren’t peoples only option and so that SRO landlords have to improve conditions to compete with the market. But SROs are a critical component of our housing portfolio. And cities all over the country are trying to re-legalize them to help with the housing crisi.
Also, some of those people hanging out on the street outside SRO’s might be out there because… they like hanging out with their friends? There is plenty to be frustrated with in the Tenderloin and other poor, dense, urban neighborhoods around the country. But the SRO’s are not the root of the problem, just another shoehorned solution that gets blamed for the mess.
Agree with all of this. Important clarification on root problem being NOT the SRO itself, but the management and ultimately the living conditions themselves.
It’s too easy to conflate SRO with junkie or criminals, when there are plenty of everyday hardworking people and elderly peeps just trying to make ends meet.
The last note here is the location and volume of SROs in any given area. A mix of housing types in an area is crucial. It applies to every kind of housing, not just SROs or BMRs.
I can’t believe we’re finally starting to actually BUILD something!
Great project. Now if they could only add more trees, this stretch of Mission might become pleasant.
I know this area well, and it appears the strategy is to keep it a no-go zone. Attracting seniors (homebodies) and former homeless (lol) is doubling down on the containment zone strategy of the neighborhood. Instead of trying to attract young people (UoP is right around the corner?) and workers – we decide, no. Such is life. They couldn’t even bother to make this building stick out of the skyline. This is obviously an upgrade from the empty lot, but still.
We will never dig out from amassing SO much social housing in one neighborhood. Distribute it throughout the city for integration in our various hoods.