Construction is now underway for the nine-story affordable senior housing complex at 967 Mission Street in SoMa, San Francisco. BGI and Nibbi have started excavation on the former surface parking lot in preparation for the 95-unit residential infill. The development is sponsored by the MOHCD, following the property’s dedication to the city by the developers of 5M.
967 Mission Street, rendering by LMS Architects
The nine-story structure is expected to yield around 72,600 square feet. The complex will include 94 units of affordable housing for households earning less than 50% of the area’s median income and one on-site property manager’s apartment. A quarter of the units will be set aside for formerly homeless seniors. Unit types will vary, with 63 studios and 32 one-bedrooms. Residential amenities will include a laundry facility, community space, a rooftop deck, and offices for on-site supportive services.
Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects is the design architect, working with associate architect Y.A. Studio. According to LMS Architects, the firm has collaborated with local artists to integrate exterior murals and patterns to honor SOMA Pilipinas, the city’s Filipino Cultural Heritage District.
967 Mission Street lobby, rendering by LMS Architects
967 Mission Street facade elevations, renderings by LMS Architects
John Stewart Company and the Bayview Hunters Point Multipurpose Senior Services are jointly responsible for the development as owners.
The property was dedicated to the city for affordable housing as part of the 5M development agreement signed by Brookfield Properties and Hearst Corporation. The full 5M master plan is expected to transform four blocks around the newspaper’s headquarters with 856 apartments, over 800,000 square feet of office space, retail, and public open space. So far, the joint venture has completed an office tower, The George at 434 Minna Street, and a public park.
The roughly quarter-acre property is located a few doors west of The George and the San Francisco Chronicle headquarters. Future residents will be just two blocks from the Powell Street BART Station or the Yerba Buena Gardens.
967 Mission Street, image by author
Construction is expected to last around two years. The application process for future housing has not yet been launched.
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Anything but a surface parking lot / chain link fence / barbed wire. Also, perhaps some people living in SROs will move into higher quality housing.
San Francisco should have a goal of ending the SRO program. What started as cheap housing for miners or other migrating workers 150 years ago – often single men – has turned into a terrible situation. Most people don’t know that the crowds of people lingering late at night as part of the night-time drug markets are *not* homeless – they just live in awful conditions in SROs and would rather be hanging out outside. The SRO hotel situation in the Tenderloin is a great example of progressives’ compassion gone wrong. They want to help people in need but end up creating a very bad situation for not only the people they are trying to help, but also those around them.
I can’t believe we’re finally starting to actually BUILD something!
Great project. Now if they could only add more trees, this stretch of Mission might become pleasant.