The formal development application has been submitted for an eight-story senior living facility at 924 Third Street in downtown San Rafael, Marin County. The Fourth Street Market Hall and Residences proposal has been significantly reduced in scale since the preliminary application filed earlier this year, shifting from a skyline-defining 24-story tower to a midrise complex. Goldstone Management is responsible for the application.
Fourth Street Market Hall corner view, rendering by Urbal Architecture
Fourth Street Market Hall corner view at A Street and 4th Street, rendering by Urbal Architecture
The roughly 85-foot-tall structure is expected to total about 326,550 square feet, including 191,600 square feet of housing, 24,950 square feet of commercial retail, and 33,400 square feet for ground-level parking. Parking will be provided for 261 cars via stackers, along with 173 bicycle spaces. Residential amenities will include a theater, library, lobby, activity room, courtyard deck, indoor pool, and a top-floor sky lounge.
The project will include 197 senior independent living rental units, including nine units set aside for low-income households. The developer will also contribute $3.5 million toward the city’s Affordable Housing Fund. Apartment sizes will vary, with 108 one-bedrooms and 89 two-bedrooms.
Fourth Street Market Hall facing 3rd Street, rendering by Urbal Architecture
Fourth Street Market Hall vertical cross-section, illustration by Urbal Architecture
Kirkland-based SRM Development is now listed as the project developer and contractor for the proposal. SRM Development has brought in two Seattle-based firms, with Urbal Architecture to oversee the design, and Fazio Associates to oversee landscape architecture. The exterior will be clad with brick veneer, stucco, wood-like material, concrete, and fiber cement.
Preliminary plans for 924 3rd Street called for a 24-story mixed-use tower with 345 apartments above a similarly-sized market hall.
Fourth Street Market Hall civic space diagram, illustration by Urbal Architecture
924 3rd Street site plan, illustration by Studio KDA
The 1.4-acre property will be located between 3rd Street, 4th Street, A Street, and Lootens Place. Future residents would be in the center of San Rafael, surrounded by restaurants and shops, and just a few blocks away from a grocery store.
Rhoades Planning Group is working as the project’s planning consultant. The estimated cost and timeline for construction have not yet been shared.
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alot better than the 24 story monstrosity..now make the facade fir san rafael
A single color palette covering over 90% of one elevation?!
In these trying times… how will our metal panel bananzas survive??
“bonanzas” Or did you mean “bananas,” Drewl?
No, I was making a DK reference.
So yes, everyone gets another look at your asshattery. It’s gaping these days.
I love the Dead Kennedys, don’t you? But I didn’t know they had a song about bananas? Is it on Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables?
I love how everyone on this site hates you.
I think they hate you too. We have that in common I guess.
San Rafael is a generic aging suburban town. This is far better than the traffic clogged suburban hellscape thst dominates much of the city. There is no unique special character that San Rafael has that must be followed.
East Coast Millennial YIMBROs need to shut up about neighborhood character, because they wouldn’t know character if it hit them in the nose.
I know it’s just another cheap plywood five-over-one podium thing, but I actually kind of like the exterior design…it’s not trying to be anything else than what it is. Those throw everything at the wall and see what sticks designs with their phony baloney attempts at mass reduction are dumb. If you’re building a big building, why not make it look like a big building?
Anyone who thinks San Rafael is a generic suburban town is completely clueless about San Rafael, or about what constitutes generic
Right? I don’t even live in Marin Co., but I adore San Rafael. I also think that there is a lot of opportunity to thoughtfully densify the downtown, especially around the edges where there are a lot of one-story nothing buildings, gas stations, and parking lots. And it is all walkable to SMART.
This building is attractive.
So with this building being simply rectangular and almost next to a grocery store. There going be a lot of drunk men right?
What?
Great idea until someone decided to make it senior housing. They can take ths proposal and DENY, DENY, DENY. Can’t even fill the exisitng Senior living units in SR let alone more. We need workforce housing not senior housing.