New details have been shared for the eight-story affordable housing complex at 1234 Great Highway in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset District. The senior housing complex is expected to add nearly two hundred units and a single-story medical center along the narrow plot. Residents will benefit from stunning views across Ocean Beach and Golden Gate Park. Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and Self-Help For The Elderly will be joint developers.
Recent planning applications have been submitted for the oceanside strip of land. The application invokes Senate Bill 330 and the State Density Bonus law to increase residential capacity and streamline the approval process. The team has requested waivers related to the building height, rear yard size, ground floor use, parking, and more.
1234 Great Highway floor plan, illustration by Paulett Taggart Architects
The two 84-foot tall complexes will feature 150,020 square feet for housing and 3,400 square feet for the nine-car parking facility, while the single-story Adult Day Health Care Center will yield 6,620 square feet. Additional parking will be included for 34 bicycles. Proposed residential amenities include a community space, a community kitchen, outdoor decks, and loungerooms.
Once complete, the proposal will have 199 rental apartments. Half of the dwellings will be supportive housing for formerly homeless seniors. Unit types will vary with 88 studios, 107 one-bedrooms, and 4 four two-bedrooms. Two one-bedroom residences will be market-rate housing for an on-site property manager.
Paulett Taggart Architects is responsible for the design with Associate Architect, Figure. Details drawings have yet to be shared, though the aerial massing shows two slab mid-rises connected via sky bridges above the lobby entrance. The firm’s recent work shows a consistent affinity for white exteriors, floor-to-ceiling windows, and exposed concrete to add raw texture to the ground floor.
1234 Great Highway, image by Google Satellite
The property is one of five that the MOHCD acquired in the summer of 2023 through the Site Acquisition and Predevelopment Financing NOFA. The five projects are expected to create over five hundred affordable housing across five different neighborhoods at 249 Pennsylvania Avenue, 250 Laguna Honda Boulevard, 3300 Mission Street, and 650 Divisadero Street.
Demolition will be required for the existing three-story 60-key motel. Construction is tentatively expected to start as soon as December of 2026. The timeline and cost for construction have yet to be shared.
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The presence of this 8 story supportive housing block will surely be a deterrent for speculators hoping to cash in on the Great Highway Park land grab. I imagine it will be difficult to pitch market rate development next door to this project to potential investors.
SROs and drug addict rehab clinics is what this land needs. Same as the treatment 16th & Mission is getting. The Mission & TL don’t deserve to house all the SROs. If SF genuilenly doesn’t want bad areas, then diversifying the SRO and NGO grift is the only way.
I have a crazier idea. Built a ton of SROs and extremely low income housing on the Candlestick Point lot. It’s in the middle of nowhere and will be a nice quality of life for them. Then move all existing SRO residents to Candlestick, and convert those TL SROs to be market rate condos. Problem not solved, but problem out of sight. Those people lingering in the middle of the night doing drugs? Mostly SRO residents.
Great plan. SROs all together around TL, Mission have invited open air junkie filth. Get them to the outskirts of the city, or way up north with some of the 2k acres SF has purchased the last decade. Nature Farm Healing Centers. SF’s had the worst foresight I think I’ve seen in city planning on a global scale.
Tons of land in Hunter’s Point and Candlestick to build much higher quality, modern housing than what the SRO’s are. Quality of life improvement. The dealers will no longer be able to BART over from Oakland as easily, which will help these struggling people get clean. Nice weather, waterfront access. Put services on site.
Watch out! Great Highway’s NIMBY are gonna to cry foul
Right??
Yes, there is Push-Back from many in the neighborhood and beyond who will be affected, have come together, and will address this in writing to all who will need to fight us off. This is nonsense, and is on liquefaction, inside of the Coastal Zone Boundaries, right at the Tsunami Exit, on earthquake faults! Now let’s talk about the Great Highway being closed which will landlock and gridlock this exact area! Thank you Joel Engardio, and his crew…
Counter Intuitive Nonsense at it’s best!!!!!!
If all the existign homes are in danger of liquefaction, the coastal zone, and the tsunami exit, we should bulldoze them.
What a strange decision. How about the city build highly-profitable market rate units on this land (which is premium land in SF due to the view), then build DOUBLE the number of affordable units inland using those profits? Everybody wins in that scenario.
How is this an efficient use of taxpayer money?
That’s too logical for SF.
Wow.
This is going to be a wall.
Other cities, like in Hawaii and Seattle, have built taller, more slender buildings to allow for better ocean views and waterfront access.
This project does neither and it’s not about being a NIMBY, but better planning and use should be taking place for everyone and future generations.
lmao there is no way that they could build a 25-story (yet slim!) building in the outer sunset, it would be totally incompatible with the neighborhood’s current residential layout of 1 + 2 story houses, and would undoubtedly block the views of an enormous number of current residents. already the nimbys are going to lose it because the govt DEIGNS to house poor folks outside of the UST-ridden basin of the TL or on a literal superfund in bayview/hunters point.
They can easily do it. Tokyo is full of 10-20 story slim buildings.
I wonder if this will get done before ParkMerced, or Stonestown, or Fireman’s Fund site, or Copper Penny site, or Alexandria theater site?
San Francisco is blessed with a lot of single room occupancy hotels, when I moved to SF fifty years ago I lived in the Ansonia club on 711 Post St for a year, yes there were a lot of strange people but it was safe and helped me get on my feet, SF should consider building short term studio apartments building l bet that they will be successful! As for this development it looks horrible and destroyed views from neighborhood
Will provide Ocean view.WHILE RUINING VIEW OF NEXT 10 BLOCKS of longtime residents like the monstocity prison looking new on Stanyon. building not to mention parking.Residents betrayed by there soon to be oustered rep that voted against keeping hiway closed so traffic will flow thru residential streets 👎
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Buildings at this height, don’t stand a chance this close to the beach. The sand will sandblast the buildings, all spring and halfway into the summer every single year. The salt content in the air in the winter in spring when the waves get big will destroy any metal in their way. The Golden Gate Bridge proves that you can beat the elements, but it comes at a great cost. I don’t think anybody believes the proponents of this project have factored in a large, ongoing budget to maintain such buildings in such a hostile environment. You could move them five blocks inland, and they would fare much, much better. Right up against the beach, they will take a heavy, heavy beating. We desperately need more thoughtful city planners, who actually understand the neighborhoods they’re considering building in.
Why have any buildings, then? According to this reasoning, Sunset should be pulverized because we can’t keep up with maintenance. With height being the issue, the topography goes up, so everything hillside is at a loss.
How on Earth have most coastal cities above three stories survived? Dunkirk managed to outlive WW2 and they have a wall of 5-story buildings meters away from the beach. Sunset has a whole highway to block sand and wind.