Construction is currently underway at the former historic laundromat at 2918 Mission Street in San Francisco’s Mission District. Crews are moving ahead with the foundation, and the structure is expected to start rising next year. Local developer Cresleigh Homes is the project owner.
Once complete, the 84-foot-tall structure is expected to yield around 67,100 square feet, including roughly 59,000 square feet of housing and 7,000 square feet of ground-level retail. The second floor will include an amenity deck and private terraces. The project will feature 75 apartments.
2918 Mission Street, image by author
Updated illustrations show an urban vernacular, including facade articulation to visually reduce the structure’s scale, different exterior materials, a seventh-floor setback, and bay windows overlooking Mission Street. Illustrations show a placeholder mural on the northern elevation, with the final design yet to be revealed.
2918 Mission Street retail view, rendering via Cresleigh Homes
The property is located at the corner of 25th Street and Mission Street, a block away from the 24th Street BART Station and the Cesar Chavez Street thoroughfare.
Entitlements for the eight-story project were approved in late 2018. Cresleigh Homes purchased the lot from tech founder and CEO Richard Tillman for $13.5 million in April 2019. Construction is expected to begin next year, with vertical work starting in early 2027 and interior work starting in late summer. The grand opening is currently scheduled for early 2028.
Correction: Multistudio was erroneously attributed as the project architect.
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I see this repeated incorrectly everywhere all the time, so I don’t blame the editors for this because literally every news site says it all the time . . . but the laundromat was NOT historic. It never was.
Some people thought it could be historic, so they had professional historic preservationists study the building. They found that it wasn’t historic. It’s as black-and-white as that. So it wasn’t a historic laundromat and never was.
People keep repeating the “historic laundromat” headline because it’s a striking headline and to sow distrust in historic preservation as an institution because the nuance between preservationists (people who preserve and adapt historic fabric in a balanced way while maintaining a functioning city), and people who weaponize the word “historic” to block a housing development they don’t like, is apparently too complicated to acknowledge.
so this is called a tongue-in-cheek joke ………. lighten up
You’re right sfyimby is a joke website and not to be taken seriously as a source of factual information.
This is referred to as a joke as well as one of the best anecdotes of NIMBYism that’s ever existed. I encourage all uses of it.
I agree. It’s a standard YIMBY swipe at preservationists, who are evidently to blame for everything, ranging from the shortage of avocado toast to the high price of eggs that our fearless “precedent” (and a YIMBY role model) has failed to bring down.
God, you’re a loser.
The fact that W would waste a minute of our lives to explain that this laundromat was not historic proves that we clearly aren’t making fun of NIMBYs as much as we should be.
I like these under construction posts because there are so many development projects that don’t come to fruition in San Francisco. Nice to know which one comes out of the ground.
I’m sure it’s obvious to say, but at 1 block from the BART we should be building much taller, like other cities with subways do. That said, I didn’t see any parking mentioned so kudos for not congesting Mission St.
100%
Parking nightmare.
What kind of idiot would drive a car in a city?
SF needs to chill out on the tacky, cheap, tasteless murals on all these buildings. If local artist who are activist visioned get the contracts then maybe it’s time we stop over paying local muralists for boring, cheap motel vibe murals. Reach from outside the Bay area to upgrade our murals.
I assume that what you’re seeing here is just for placement/affect.
Local artists should get the money and work, but agree that there’s definitely been far too much “art as a political softener” for my taste (eg. Cinderella Bakery mural).
Seeing this site finally get moving and built out (after a decade of political bs) gives me hope that we may one day see the hole in the ground at 22nd and Mission start back up.