Demolition permits have been filed for three existing structures within the Freedom West housing cooperative in San Francisco’s Fillmore District. The application would bolster the construction of the first new complex of the Freedom West 2.0 masterplan with over a hundred units of affordable senior housing at 880 McAllister Street. MacFarlane Partners and Avanath Capital Management are the project sponsors.
880 McAllister Street, image via Google Street View
The proposed new construction at 880 McAllister Street is expected to rise seven floors at the corner of McAllister Street and Laguna Street. The 73-foot-tall structure will yield around 104,500 square feet, including 103,300 square feet of housing and 1,200 square feet of retail. Parking will be included for 15 bicycles. The complex will include 115 units, with 80 one-bedrooms and 35 two-bedrooms.
DLR Group is the design architect, working with landscape architect Hood Design Studio. Previously shared renderings show a contemporary interpretation of the existing late modernist buildings, using a similar color palette across the articulated facade and an emphasis on rectilinear shape.
880 McAllister Street establishing view, rendering by DLR Group
Freedom West 2.0 aerial overview, illustration by DLR Group
Freedom West streetscape, rendering by DLR Group
Historic resource documents published by the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation state the existing Freedom West cooperative was constructed between 1973 and 1975 by Jack Baskin, with architecture by Krisel/Shapiro & Associates, and landscape architecture by ROyston, Hanamoto, Beck & Abey.
Demolition would be expected for three three-story apartment buildings at 860, 870, and 880 McAllister Street, behind the Bethel AME Church. Each structure contains 36 units, for a total residential capacity loss of 108 units. Plans for the new structure show it will occupy the floor area at 870 and 880 McAllister Street, showing that the demolition of 860 McAllister Street is ultimately intended to enable future construction.
The estimated timeline for construction has not yet been established.
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Good news! Super excited for the larger project.
Redevelopment of this size and density with commercial activation is rare in this central location. It seems like a great project. I hope it’s delivered reasonably fast.
How are existing residents being accommodates, if at all?
It’s subsidized senior housing. The vast majority of the residents won’t even own cars.
Sorry, replied to the wrong thread here. This is directed at the Sam Gonzalez comment further down.
Doesn’t seem like the most efficient project. They are demolishing three buildings with 108 units total, and building 115 on the site of two of them.
Still, we’ll take it.
The article indicates they would be demolishing 3 buildings and the new construction would sit on only 2 of the lots leaving the third empty “for future construction”. Presumably when that future construction happens, the total number of units added will be well in excess of what was demolished.
Yes. I acknowledged that math in my post. Unless that third lot is 100+ units, doubling the overall number of units total in the transaction, it doesn’t feel like a great swap to me.
Small piece of the puzzle. 4 full blocks are to be replaced. The end will absolutely justify the means. 2-3 more floors wouldn’t hurt, though. Take precedence of Geary or Filmore; towers on those streets are well over 10.
I can’t remember what the floor count was like in the initial proposal, but we lost a few since, no?
Multiple floors and towers were lost with the updated scale back from a bit ago.
Heaven forbid we try to maximize some aspects of density.
I live 3 blocks from here, I’m extremely excited about this project, but I have several questions.
– First of all, I hope that they will ensure 0 displacement for the existing co-op residents. I think this is a non-starter otherwise.
– I’m not sure how the math works out on the total number of units. They are converting 3 story buildings into a 7 story building, and only adding 7 units? Is every unit getting dramatically more floor space? If you look at the buildings being torn down here, I don’t think you can fit 36 units in each one, so I’m wondering if there’s just a mistake in the article.
– I really hope the “Octavia Green” space is a semi-public walking path, like the ones at the Laguna Heights complex up the hill, and aren’t gated off the way the current Freedom West parklet is.
– I don’t really understand the parking situation. I’m pretty anti-car and anti-parking in general, but I’m under the impression that the majority of these residents have cars and an assigned parking spot. I hope I’m just wrong about that, but if not it doesn’t seem great to be a long-time resident suddenly having your parking spot yanked away. If you rely on your car to get to work, this could cause displacement.
All of the remaining residents are being moved into vacant units in other buildings, this was mentioned in materials provided in a previous article.
The numbers in the article are clearly a mistake, as each of the buildings being demolished have 12 units not 36, which can be easily verified by Google Street View.
wonderful!
Parking nightmare.
I’ll take a temporary parking nightmare over a permanent housing shortage any day. Perceived parking problems are not a severe compromise to make relative to creating thousands of units of housing.
You live in San Francisco. What do you expect?
Does anyone know if the architectural design by DLR Group will incorporate modern security features similar to those used by international commercial venues like guiadeSportingbetbrasil.com, or are they sticking strictly to standard residential compliance for this senior housing project?