Construction is rising quickly for the mixed-use tower at 1123 Sutter Street in Lower Nob Hill, San Francisco. Concrete has surpassed the 8th floor for the future 22-story high-rise, which will eventually open with 303 apartments and ground-floor retail. Martin Building Company is responsible for the development.
Once complete, the structure is expected to rise around 235 feet and yield 358,000 square feet, including a quarter-million-square-feet of housing, 2,800 square feet of commercial space, 4,000 square feet for a childcare facility, and 43,150 square feet for the podium garage.
1101-1123 Sutter Street seen from the corner of Larkin and Hemlock, rendering by David Baker Architects
1101-1123 Sutter Street refurbished structure along Sutter, rendering by David Baker Architects
Unit types vary with 75 studios, 58 one-bedrooms, 128 two-bedrooms, 31 three-bedrooms, and 11 four-bedrooms. Of the 303 units, 102 will be deed-restricted as affordable housing. The historic structure at 1101 Sutter Street will be renovated into a 68-stall public garage, while the residential structure will include a 30-car garage and a 218-stall bicycle room.
David Baker Architects is responsible for the design. While concrete is rising, facade installation has not yet started, and will typically not start until the tower is close to topping out. The exterior is expected to be composed of floor-to-ceiling windows, metal panels, and cast-in-place concrete balconies.
1123 Sutter Street rising over Hemlock Street, image by author
1101-1123 Sutter Street view showcasing the raised childcare facility’s open space overlooking Hemlock, rendering by David Baker Architects
1101-1123 Sutter Street southwest aerial view, rendering by David Baker Architects
The 0.68-acre property occupies much of a block bound by Sutter Street, Larkin Street, Hemlock Street, and Polk Street. Future residents will live less than a block away from Van Ness Avenue, and three blocks from the lively Polk Gulch commercial neighborhood.
Nibbi is the general contractor responsible for building the structure.
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Beyond the obvious improvements that come with this project (homes for people, property taxes to the city, temporary and permanent jobs), the thousands (?) of people coming and going throughout the day will provide a much-needed foot traffic boost to Hemlock. The alleys of Polk Gulch / Tenderknob struggle with encampments and they need all of the lighting, landscaping, security and general standards of livability as possible. Hopefully those who used to linger on Hemlock get the services they need…elsewhere.
Was this the former Halstead Funeral site?
This project hits all the marks: nice design, tall enough but not too tall, good mix of unit sizes, nice balance of market-rate and subsidized units, and attention to parking. Can we have more of these, please?
Let’s be sure to put more people in SF and the peninsula so that no one can go anywhere except on a bicycle that will no doubt be run over by all the uptight lunatics in a car that have been jammed into a small land mass to begin with. Are you all that greedy that you’d destroy our lifestyle?
So once YOU are in a place, it should be closed to anyone else wanting to live there? Should it have been closed before you got to move there?
I don’t think anyone’s being greedy. I think that some people genuinely believe a different way of living (eg walking + public transit) is viable or even preferable to a car-centric way of living.
Correct. There dozens of cities in the Bay Area, and only 1-3 where you can live without a car and come anywhere close to having equal opportunities with those who do.
I LOVE watching this crane standing tall from my office tower in Fidi. If we were a serious city, there would be a 100 more of these scattered across the skyline.
I too like this project, though I have a hard time imagining placing my kids in a childcare facility just over that alley…