Permits were filed seeking the approval of operating a hotel as a semi-congregational shelter at the property site located at 711 Post Street in Lower Nob Hill, San Francisco. The property, Ansonia Hotel, is now operating as a shelter for unhoused individuals and households.
Core Hotels, LLC is the property owner. San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is the project applicant. Urban Alchemy is the group running the shelter.
As previously reported, final touches are underway to convert the former Ansonia Hotel into a homeless shelter. The new shelter has renovated bedrooms, designed as a mix of one-bed rooms and four-bed rooms. Some have private bathrooms, showers and locker spaces. The shelter offers a capacity of 250 people. The shelter utilizes a few built-in features borrowed from the previous structure, a youth hostel, like laundry room, communal spaces with pool and foosball tables, and library with books.
For the shelter, type of construction is concrete, slab-on-grade with concrete perimeter walls and interior footings under a load-bearing structure. The facade is brick masonry. The superstructure is conventional wood-framing with steel columns at the sub-basement. The roof is a flat, built-up granular surface.
San Francisco Board of Supervisors had approved the $18 million shelter last year. The structure has received a positive response since the concept allows for human connections and socializing for the previously unhoused. However, having no outdoor space on the site is flaw pointed out by many in the neighborhood.
The Ansonia Hotel was a former youth hostel. It was a five-floor facility, spanning an area of 18,159 square feet, with 123 units (70 residential units and 53 tourist rooms). The units were a mix of singles, doubles, triples, and quads which equate to an overall capacity of 318 beds. All floors had shared bathrooms/showers. A lobby/front desk, basement, community area, commercial kitchen, dining space, and laundry facility were all a part of the hotel.
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I have good memories of 711 post street, when I moved to San Francisco 50 years (1973) ago this was the first place I lived. SF was great place for young people than.