Planning permits have been filed for the residential infill project at 3255-3333 San Bruno Avenue in Visitacion Valley, San Francisco. The development aims to create three apartment structures with nearly four dozen apartments overlooking Highway 101. Schaub Li Architects is responsible for the application and design.
Construction will yield three apartment buildings, with 12 units at 3255 San Bruno Avenue, 17 units at 3301 San Bruno Avenue, and 18 units at 3333 San Bruno Avenue. Contrary to previous plans, the potential Building B site will no longer include housing. Of the 47 units, five will be designated as affordable for households earning around half of the area’s median income. Unit types will vary, with 31 one-bedroom, 15 two-bedroom, and one three-bedroom residence. Parking will be included for 14 cars and 52 bicycles.
3255-3333 San Bruno Avenue, rendering by Schaub Li Architects
Schaub Li Architects is responsible for the design. Illustrations show the three-story apartments clad with bare stucco facades, two-story bay windows, and flat rooflines.
The roughly 0.6-acre property is located along the San Bruno Avenue thoroughfare between Harkness Avenue and Ordway Street. The existing billboard on-site will remain. Future residents would be near several SFMTA bus lines and a 22-minute walk from the Bayshore Caltrain station. McLaren Park is just ten minutes away via the 29 or 56 bus.
3255-3333 San Bruno Avenue aerial view looking over Highway 101, rendering by Schaub Li Archtiects
City records show the property last sold in 2016 to a San Francisco-based individual for $1.25 million. According to the project application, construction is expected to cost around $8.5 million, a figure not inclusive of all development costs.
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I miss that cool Storybook warehouse that used to be beneath the billboard. Also the bee farm that used to occupy the rest of the lot. But I guess we need to build more ugly to keep the Wieners happy.
I don’t think these are ugly–they look pretty similar to the buildings around them.
Which are fairly ugly themselves. Not a chic part of town.
These look perfectly nice – the ugly part is the existing billboard. Too bad they decided to keep that instead of putting more homes there.
I love that Billboard >:( I audibly went “YAY” when I read that the billboard will remain
Perfectly summarizing the state of housing development in the Bay Area with a single comment.
What a perfect example of how broken the housing system is here. All that land given up for a billboard and its view corridor?
And only 3 stories next to a major freeway and all those bus lines that also link to the Caltrain station just a little further south. Not to mention great access to job centers from downtown SF (maybe again someday), Mission Bay, Bayview and down to Oyster Point and the Peninsula.
Not to mention more people to support all the struggling Mom & Pop businesses on SBA. This feels like a no brainer to me.
Have you ever been to the Portola?
Also, this is a very skinny parcel – really just a remnant left over after 101 was built in the 1950s. I honestly don’t know how stable that slope is between the site and the freeway. Also, who the hell wants to live next to 101? Your lungs would be coated with soot in a week.
Holy air pollution Batman!
I hope whoever lives there invests in some really good HVAC filters. Urban highways are such a ludicrous idea. Pity to anyone who ends up living here.