Updated renderings have been published for the ten-story apartment complex at 650 Divisadero Street near San Francisco’s Alamo Square. The 2025-approved project is looking to add 107 affordable apartments to the corner lot. The Young Community Developer and Jonathan Rose Companies are jointly sponsoring the project in partnership with MOHCD.
The developers received approved entitlements from the city’s planning department in mid-June. New building permits were requested in August and are still listed as under review. Construction is estimated to cost around $101 million. Previously, the applicant anticipated that work could start before the end of this year and finish by 2028.
650 Divisadero Street ground-level floor plan, illustration by Mithun
650 Divisadero Street aerial view, illustration by Mithun
The 98-foot-tall structure is expected to yield 105,900 square feet of housing, with parking for 72 bicycles. Unit types will vary with 27 studios, 26 one-bedrooms, 27 two-bedrooms, and 27 three-bedrooms. Residential amenities will be included on the first and second floors, including on-site property management and residential services space.
Mithun is the principal architect for the project in collaboration with Associate Architect, Saida + Sullivan Design Partners. The latest illustration shows a bare rectangular complex with minimal facade articulation and vertical solar shades on the western facade.
650 Divisadero Street, image by Google Satellite
The 0.29-acre property is located at the corner of Divisadero Street and Grove Street, a block away from Alamo Square. Future residents would live along a retail-rich thoroughfare a block from a grocery store, and a few blocks from the city’s famed tourist attraction, the Painted Ladies. The eastern tip of the Panhandle Park is just a few blocks away.
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Great to see the additional height, and the significant number of three bedrooms!
I’m really surprised / disappointed with the lack of retail. This is a corner lot on the busiest block of Divis, which gets huge foot traffic from the Independent and the Emporium, with Beretta, 4505 Meats, Fool’s Errand and Bar Crudo across the street. A ground floor bar/restaurant type establishment would succeed here and add value to the neighborhood. Almost any business that operates after 5PM would succeed here. While I was disappointed to see the lack of retail at 400 Divis (Shell Gas Station / carwash), I get the logic, as it’s slightly less walkable, between Fell and Oak, and perhaps a little riskier. I do not get the lack of retail here, at all. Missed opportunity for the developer and the neighborhood.
Something like a Fieldwork Brewing or other gastropub would absolutely crush here, a big, expansive space. Mid-high end dining would work a la Nopa. A series of 2-3 smaller footprint restaurants and cafes would work. Anything would work! Why would they not put retail here? Instead, just a lobby? I’m baffled.
I’m upset because – as a homeowner nearby – this project was the best chance that Divis had to really increase its energy as a commercial corridor and level up to the Polk / Chestnut / Valencia / Hayes tier of retail density and walkable nightlife. It would have cemented this block as the epicenter. The Emporium, Independent and NOPA are destinations that bring foot traffic from other neighborhoods. A series of bars/restaurants/cafes here would feed off of that foot traffic. It’s a can’t miss.
Divis is doing fine but it needs a little boost to get to the next level. Its bones aren’t great – narrow sidewalks, still industrial-ish, and four lanes of traffic instead of two. It needs to compensate with more, good businesses. If these projects (400 Divis, 650 Divis) don’t add ground floor retail, Divis will continue to be a tier below some of the other destination corridors mentioned for a long time.