Construction is expected to start by early Fall at 2000 Marin Street in San Francisco. The city’s Public Utilities Commission is planning to reshape the nearly eight-acre property with the City Distribution Division campus. The gated campus will oversee San Francisco’s water distribution systems within city limits, which span roughly 1,250 miles of water pipes, meters, pump stations, and reservoirs.
2000 Marin Street campus site map, illustration by SF Public Works
2000 Marin Street administrative building entrance, illustration by SF Public Works
Construction at 2000 Marin Street will bring six buildings with 370,850 square feet of floor area. The largest building will be the six-story garage with a capacity for 556 cars. The next largest building will be a four-story administration building. The offices will include a community hub, shops, and an outdoor plaza. The remaining four buildings will provide a machine shop, an auto and carpentry shop, and a 40-foot-tall warehouse with a meter shop.
A fuel station will provide two above-ground fuel tanks for diesel and gasoline, and a 750-kilowatt backup generator will be provided on a concrete pad to protect the continuous service from 2000 Marin Street.
2000 Marin Street main gate, illustration by SF Public Works
2000 Marin Street view from parking garage stairway, illustration by SF Public Works
The City of San Francisco purchased 2000 Marin Street in 2015 from Tishman Speyer for $33 million. The existing single-story industrial structure will be removed alongside three trees. New site plans will plant 43 trees across the site. The eight-acre property is located along Marin Street between Evans Avenue, Cesar Chavez Street, and the Caltrain Tracks. Future employees will be a ten-minute walk from Light Rail along 3rd Street. The water department will join the SFMTA and Public Works yards in a growing neighborhood of municipal facilities. Nearby, construction is underway for Potrero Block B, a 157-unit phase for the city’s affordable Potrero HOPE SF masterplan.
2000 Marin Street seen from Cesar Chavez Street and Evans Avenue, illustration by SF Public Works
SFPUC finished the environmental review process for the campus in late June this year. With CEQA clearance, the developer has filed the General Plan Referral application and plans to start construction soon. According to a representative from the public agency, “the project is funded and scheduled to start demolition in September.” Construction is expected to last around 40 months, with a possible opening by early 2028.
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I’m curious how many employees will occupy the facility with a 556 car parking garage. The city is so restrictive of developers to provide parking, but for their own facility i think there are no limits. Also I wonder, was this designed by city staff?
I’m very curious about why the City of San Francisco needs this facility this large? It looks to me as if we are creating another big bureaucracy, what are they going to do now to justify all these office workers, fine us if we are watering your plants too much?
is there anything you people won’t complain about? yeesh.
As Long as Outcomes are tied to the funding such as Guaranteed Clean water both from chemicals and bacteria, if they want to expand Water Treatment at the tax-payers expense that’s fine but we citizens should be guaranteed clean healthy and safe water as a condition and I don’t mean fraudulent water testing, we want to know every chemical in the water and any potential side effects and for what percentage of the population that could be effected.