Wednesday, February 19, 2014

7.7 acre housing development, Brotherhood Way (Parkmerced) San Francisco


San Francisco Chronicle/John Wildermuth, 2/17/14.  "Development alters S.F.'s road of churches."

                             Reference - The PM Story, construction video (YouTube):
                             
Part 1, 3:19 minutes,  Part 2, 2:34 minutes, and  Part 3, 2:34 minutes.

"For decades, Brotherhood Way has been a unique part of San Francisco, an almost pastoral road running toward Lake Merced past a hillside of pine trees on one side and a row of churches, temples and religious schools on the other. 

In a city desperate for housing, however, the prospect of 182 brand-new homes to draw families to one of San Francisco's least developed areas can trump any appeal to the past. In 2005, when the city Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors each signed off on the project, housing advocates turned out in support of the development. "This is a unique development," said Chris Hawke, whose Maracor Development was the moving force behind the project. "We're told that this is the first true subdivision to open in the city in 40 years."

 

Summer move-in planned. Models for the first phase of the development are expected to open this spring, with owners moving into the first 10 of the three-and four-bedroom homes during the summer." Read article.  Note:  graphic map by John Blanchard, this article, San Francisco Chronicle.

 

Related -  San Francisco Magazine/Ben Christopher, 10/16/13, "Cranespotting: Urban Livittowns.  The term 'planned community" no longer has to mean row after row of plain vanilla." "5. Summit 800 (Parkmerced), 800 Brotherhood Way, 182 spanking new houses.  Parkmerced Real estate development and its attendant controversies play out a little differently in the city’s suburban-style southwest. Take Summit 800, a feng shui–blessed planned community that broke ground after facing down neighbors who wanted to preserve the area’s Arcadian greenery and the church-lined boulevard’s ecclesiastic character. Arcadian greenery? Church-lined? Yes, we’re still talking about San Francisco. Residential/2016/40 ft."   Note:  photograph link from this article.

 

Business Journal/J. K.Dineen, 5/13/13. "182 suburban-style homes in urban San Francisco?  Believe it." "The project, formerly known as 800 Brotherwood Way, was blocked for years by neighborhood groups who argued that the formerly city-owned site was set aside in 1958 for educational and religious uses, not housing. Eventually the city’s board of appeals ruled against the neighborhood opponents, which included former supervisor Tony Hall and retired Judge Quentin Kopp. 

 

Posted by Kathy Meeh 

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