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fflint Aug 5, 2015 6:46 PM

SAN FRANCISCO | Parkmerced Redevelopment
 
Massive Parkmerced Project Slated To Break Ground

August 4, 2015
SocketSite

http://www.socketsite.com/wp-content...-Plan-2014.jpg

The massive redevelopment plan for Parkmerced includes 5,679 net new units of housing, for a neighborhood total of 8,900; a network of new neighborhood parks, athletic fields, greenways and an organic farm; new underground garages on the west side of the site to discourage casual car usage by residents concentrated in buildings on the eastern side of the site; and a rerouting of MUNI’s M Ocean View line from 19th Avenue through the development, along with re-designed streets, bike paths and other transportation improvements.

And if everything goes as currently planned, construction for the first phase of the three-decade project, which includes the building of 1,668 housing units, of which 222 will be one-to-one replacement units for those demolished during Phase One, has been scheduled to commence in early February 2016.
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ardecila Aug 6, 2015 4:03 AM

Cool. Very ambitious.

Is there a concern that this level of density is too much for a single Muni line to handle?

bloobityblurp Dec 6, 2019 7:03 PM

After Massive $1.8B Infusion, Megadevelopment Construction Will Begin Next Year Read
 
After Massive $1.8B Infusion, Megadevelopment Construction Will Begin Next Year
Quote:

The developer of one of San Francisco's most far-reaching megadevelopments says a major loan package has made it likely the project will now break ground next year.
https://www.bisnow.com/san-francisco...package-102108

Busy Bee Dec 6, 2019 8:47 PM

About damn time

craigs Dec 6, 2019 10:10 PM

Rendering of the Parkmerced infill plan from the linked article above:

https://cdn.bisnow.net/fit?height=48...QVWEaLd-sUA_Qs

Busy Bee Dec 8, 2019 2:50 AM

It is a very impressive masterplan, the only thing that could make it better would have been a few 30+ floor highrises mixed in.

Pedestrian Dec 8, 2019 8:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Busy Bee (Post 8769946)
It is a very impressive masterplan, the only thing that could make it better would have been a few 30+ floor highrises mixed in.

Personally I am not a fan of the "tower in a park" type of structure. It basically means people need to drive everywhere and discourages walking. Residential towers belong downtown as part of a continuous commercial streetwall so the residents have most retail and other commercial needs within a few blocks and perhaps can even walk to work.

Busy Bee Dec 8, 2019 3:03 PM

There's already highrises at Parkmerced. All I'm saying is it would have been cool to add a few really tall ones. Not sure how that would be harmful.

bloobityblurp Feb 6, 2020 10:43 PM

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Investment firm approves $275 million loan for S.F.'s Parkmerced

Denver-based Apartment Investment and Management Company (AIMCO) recently approved a $275 million mezzanine loan — a type of loan made up of debt and equity — for the Parkmerced apartment buildout, the Registry has reported.
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranc...n-for-s-f.html

Pedestrian Feb 7, 2020 6:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Busy Bee (Post 8770095)
There's already highrises at Parkmerced. All I'm saying is it would have been cool to add a few really tall ones. Not sure how that would be harmful.

Tall highrises aren’t harmful. Tall residential buildings surrounded by grassy lawns free of neighborhood retail or services so large numbers of people can’t walk to a restaurant or bank or drycleaner or cafe and have to drive to such places are bad. In the case of the Park Merced plan, such businesses may be salted throughout the plan area but it doesn’t look like it on the renderings and it looks like the planners were more concerned with the greenery than such carbon-sparing convenience services.

iamfishhead Feb 7, 2020 2:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian (Post 8823868)
Tall highrises aren’t harmful. Tall residential buildings surrounded by grassy lawns free of neighborhood retail or services so large numbers of people can’t walk to a restaurant or bank or drycleaner or cafe and have to drive to such places are bad. In the case of the Park Merced plan, such businesses may be salted throughout the plan area but it doesn’t look like it on the renderings and it looks like the planners were more concerned with the greenery than such carbon-sparing convenience services.

It does have a very 1960's "Towers in the Park" vibe to it.

patriotizzy Feb 7, 2020 3:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pedestrian (Post 8823868)
Tall highrises aren’t harmful. Tall residential buildings surrounded by grassy lawns free of neighborhood retail or services so large numbers of people can’t walk to a restaurant or bank or drycleaner or cafe and have to drive to such places are bad. In the case of the Park Merced plan, such businesses may be salted throughout the plan area but it doesn’t look like it on the renderings and it looks like the planners were more concerned with the greenery than such carbon-sparing convenience services.

I mean, you can have both greenery and street lined retail. This proposal looks good. A good mix of both things you mentioned.

Pedestrian Feb 7, 2020 7:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by patriotizzy (Post 8824079)
I mean, you can have both greenery and street lined retail. This proposal looks good. A good mix of both things you mentioned.

Hard to tell at the scale of the rendering. Fingers crossed.

38R Feb 23, 2020 10:12 PM

I used to live here many years ago. Wild how different it will be soon.

homebucket Aug 8, 2022 3:56 PM

Finally, an update!

The specs for Phases 1C and 1D:

Block 21S
- 14 story, 145 ft (two towers connected by a 6 story podium)
- 471 units
- Underground parking for 153 cars and 240 bicycles

Block 3W
- 42 ft
- 274 units
- Underground parking for 489 cars and 137 bicycles

Block B4
- 85 ft
- 151 units
- Parking for 0 cars and 84 bicycles

Quote:

New Renderings Under Review For Parkmerced Phase 1, San Francisco

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...ox-777x444.jpg

BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON AUGUST 8, 2022

New renderings have been published for three new buildings with 896 units in the urban redevelopment of Parkmerced in San Francisco. The structures constitute Phases 1C and 1D, the last two subphases of the first leg of construction. Maximus Real Estate Partners is developing the 152-acre master plan.

The recently revealed images show the proposed design for Blocks 3W, 4, and 21S, with a combined residential capacity of 896 units with parking for 642 cars and 461 bicycles.

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...Parkmerced.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...d-by-YIMBY.jpg

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Phase 1A & 1B
The first stage of construction will be phases 1A and 1B. The two phases will reshape four blocks on the eastern and western ends of the master plan. Construction will add around 1,013 units across five new buildings designed by separate architects. Once complete, the buildings will offer replacement housing for the residents affected by Phases 1C and 1D.

Parkmerced Vision
Parkmerced was originally developed between 1941 and 1951 to become a ‘Marvel of Modernism’ with 3,221 units for veterans. The property was designed by architect Leonard Schultze and Associates, with landscape architecture by Thomas Church and Robert Royston.

Once Maximus’ full vision is built, Parkmerced will create 8,900 units across 91 buildings with 11.2 million square feet of total area. Along with housing, the master plan includes 230,000 square feet of retail, 80,000 square feet of offices, and 64,000 square feet for a community center. The project will also replace an existing preschool. The 11 existing X-floorplate towers will be retained through development.

The master plan by Skidmore Owings & Merill aims to reinvent the area with a thriving pedestrian-oriented neighborhood. The project will connect to the city with two new MUNI light rail stations, bus shuttles connecting residents to BART for regional transit, and dedicated bicycle paths across the 152 acres.

The property will offer significant amounts of vehicular parking, with below-grade garages and dedicated garage structures on the west side of the site. There will be some blocks without car parking, particularly around the project’s ‘social heart’ area by the central round-about.

The masterplan team includes Adavant Consulting, AECOM, BKF Engineers, Circlepoint, Fehr & Peers, HMS Associates, Hydroconsult Engineers, Page & Turnbull, PAE, Stantec, SWCA Environmental Consultants, and Tom Leader Studio. The development aims to achieve LEED Silver certification with initiatives such as integrated solar power and water efficiency technology.

Timeline
The project is among several large masterplans across San Francisco that would reshape large swaths of land with a high-density neighborhood by transit. However, like many, it has been delayed for years. Maximus was able to secure new entitlements for the 152-acre neighborhood back in 2011 with Board approval. The plan was refinanced in 2014, and the City approved phase one in June of 2015, with construction expected imminently. The project was poised to start construction later in 2015, and again in 2018.

After the delay, Maximus secured $1.775 billion for refinancing Parkmerced in 2019 with Barclays, Citi, and Aimco. The firm expected to secure construction financing in early 2020, with groundbreaking expected by last year. The progress was delayed. YIMBY has contacted Maximus for a new estimate of when construction may start on Phases 1A and 1B. We have not received an answer as of the time of publication.

The project is located just south of the Stonestown Development Project. Brookfield is currently in the early process of planning a 2,900-unit redevelopment of the mall’s parking facilities. The development will create roughly a dozen new structures across 30 acres, of which six will become open space. Construction of Stonestown is expected to last around ten to twenty years. Once complete, both developments hope to create a new hub of density connected by public transit with the rest of the city.
https://sfyimby.com/2022/08/new-rend...francisco.html

homebucket Aug 8, 2022 3:59 PM

The renderings for Block 21S:

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...dersen-Fox.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...dersen-Fox.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...dersen-Fox.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...dersen-Fox.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/2022/08/new-rend...francisco.html

homebucket Aug 8, 2022 4:01 PM

Block 3W:

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...chitecture.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...chitecture.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...chitecture.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/2022/08/new-rend...francisco.html

homebucket Aug 8, 2022 4:03 PM

Block B4:

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...chitecture.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...chitecture.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...chitecture.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...chitecture.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...chitecture.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...chitecture.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/2022/08/new-rend...francisco.html

homebucket Aug 8, 2022 4:04 PM

Phase 1A & 1B:

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...nd-Merrill.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...Kwan-Henmi.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...oods-Bagot.jpg

https://sfyimby.com/2022/08/new-rend...francisco.html

Busy Bee Aug 8, 2022 7:13 PM

Still looking good... now let's go...start building already!!!

Busy Bee Oct 25, 2022 6:37 PM

Edit

Busy Bee Oct 25, 2022 6:41 PM

Good animation of the M-Ocean View rerouting through Parkmerced:

Video Link

homebucket Oct 25, 2022 7:37 PM

Pretty cool. Looking forward to this area being redeveloped into higher density and better transit orientation.

HYPERCHICKEN Oct 25, 2022 9:56 PM

What happened to the full subway alignment?

Busy Bee Oct 25, 2022 11:46 PM

^ That's actually unclear to me as well as the "officialness" of this engineering animation. It coyld be that this is a stop gap and the section through Parkmerced may or not be made underground in a future Muni Metro project to create the fully underground M line. More info here.

homebucket May 1, 2023 3:05 PM

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Project Applications Filed, Meeting Scheduled For Three Buildings In The Parkmerced Masterplan, San Francisco

https://sfyimby.com/wp-content/uploa...ed-777x519.jpg

BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:00 AM ON MAY 1, 2023

Three project applications with nearly nine hundred units have been published for buildings in the Parkmerced master plan next to the SFSU campus in San Francisco. The submissions are scheduled to be reviewed during the city’s Planning Commission meeting this Thursday. The informational presentation will allow staff and the public to comment on each project. San Francisco-based Maximus Real Estate Partners is the property owner and development sponsor.

The planning commission is scheduled to review 101 Font Boulevard on Block 21S, 99 Higuera Avenue on Block 3W, and 600 Arballo Drive on Block B4. The largest infill is Block 21S, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox. The 14-story building will create 471 apartments above amenities and parking within two tower-capped podium buildings. Overlooking Lake Merced Park, 99 Higuera Avenue, will be an extended four-story podium-style building with 274 apartments designed by BDE Architecture. Lastly, 600 Arballo Drive will be an eight-story urban infill with 151 homes designed by Kennerley Architecture.

Parkmerced is a mostly stalled project, having been first approved by the city’s Board of Supervisors in 2011 and underwent a false start on construction in 2018. Most recently, Apartment Investment and Management Company reported a deal to sell its mezzanine loan, granted back in 2020, at a loss. AIMCO stands to lose over a hundred million dollars, finding a buyer to pay $167.5 million for the $275 million loan.

Roughly half of the existing 3,221 apartments will remain, all of which are inside the 11 X-shaped towers. The 1,538 demolished units will be replaced and subject to the city’s rent stabilization ordinance. Households will be offered the chance to remain on-site with a similarly sized unit. Once complete, the full build-out will offer around 8,900 apartments. Construction is scheduled to last around 20 to 30 years once started.

While looking to the future, a recent story by the San Francisco Chronicle on the Potrero Power Station highlights a path to breathe new life into the several stalled projects that continue to dominate the city’s list of barren construction sites. One such initiative could be the establishment of an infrastructure financing district. The IFD allows developers to borrow against future tax revenues to pay for public infrastructure. As J.K. Dineen reports, “IFDs could potentially be created to finance the infrastructure for a slew of stalled San Francisco redevelopments — including the 6,000-unit expansion of Parkmerced, the 1,700-unit redevelopment of Schlage Lock, the 1,500 units at India Basin and 1,100 units at Balboa Reservoir.” In 2010, an IFD was established for the private construction of ten projects with over two thousand and five hundred units on Rincon Hill (see here).

Parkmerced is a 152-acre neighborhood located between Juniper Serra Boulevard on the east, Lake Merced Park to the west, the San Francisco State University Campus on its northern border, and a golf course to the south. Across from SFSU, there is the Stonestown Galleria mall which Brookfield is pushing the $2 billion plan to redevelop some of the structure and much of the surface parking into a new mixed-use district with 2,930 homes and offices surrounding the remaining mall.

The area includes ready access to public transit, including a MUNI light rail line and buses. For regional transit, the Daly City BART Station is between 15 to 40 minutes away on foot, or 4-10 minutes by bicycle, depending on where the resident starts in Parkmerced.
https://sfyimby.com/2023/05/project-...francisco.html

tech12 May 1, 2023 4:42 PM

20-30 year construction schedule? And that's after it's already 5+ years late in getting started? lol what a joke

Busy Bee May 1, 2023 4:55 PM

Not to mention that considering the housing crisis is SF everything you see in that rendering should realistically be 2-3 times taller.


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