A rendering of the new development coming to 3038 Clement
Always-on-top-of-it development blog Socketsite posted an update yesterday on the condominium project at 3038 Clement Street near 32nd Avenue.
As they reported back in November 2012, the property that the market sat on was being considered for a six-unit condominium development.
Fast forward two years and the market is no more. Bulldozers put the final touches on the demolition, and permits have been pulled to make way for the building which includes three two-bedroom units and three three-bedroom units.
The building will be 40 feet tall and includes parking for ten bikes and six cars over a smaller ground-floor retail space. No word yet on what will occupy the retail space.
The permit issued for the project puts the construction costs at $2,500,449. The new address for the condos will be 3032-3038 Clement Street.
Remarkably, the gas/service station on the corner next to the new condo development continues to stand, and has not yielded to what we imagine are regular “Will you sell?” inquiries from developers.
Sarah B.
Wake-up fellow city residents! Planning is allowing ugly formula box construction to decimate our architectural character. I am not totally against development, but it needs to FIT into neighborhood character.
I don’t know if anyone’s mentioned this before on the blog, but that little parking lot on Clement St. around 25th Ave. is for sale. I assume it’ll be replaced by a retail/housing building that will take up the lot. Too bad, because that parking lot is a godsend to that part of Clement — there’s never street parking available.
@Marian – Do you mean the gas station at 25th & California?
Sarah B.
@Hazbeen – what’s your proposal for the space? Just curious.
Looks nice – it begins!
Hiring an architect with taste and vision? It’s not the proposed use. It’s not the footprint. It’s the fact that it’s an eye-sore that doesn’t fit with the neighborhood. Sup. Mar? If you’re listening (or your aides), has planning disregarded what used to be style/aesthetic criteria when new developments are proposed?
The “formula box construction” has been around for decades. Look at all the apartment buildings around this project (on 32nd ave just behind this project, on the other corner of this block, across the street next to the church, etc.). It seems our neighborhood has already been “decimated”.
It would be nice to see a regular, nice apartment building go up in this city once in a while. Anyway, if the pattern holds, people will flee to the ‘burbs once they get married/have kids (both can be done here btw)–that 90 minute commute each way will be waaay less attractive. Yay
Hazbeen, The City Building Code is so full of not allowed items and features that it has become economically impossible to construct anything other than ugly boxes.
Exterior features are mostly forbidden as they can and will fall off in earthquakes (not to mention toxic adhesives); window rules are extremely convoluted, especially if one wants proper ventilation via operating windows instead of ugly and noisy roof fan systems; building materials and finishes must be a certain percentage (ever increasing) green; venting requirements for every heat generating item are increasing by leaps and bounds and cannot be shared resulting in endless 2″ upright tubes.I’m not going to bother with new plumbing and air quality filtration requirements. My last water heater replacement took five (5) City inspections (no two same inspectors) and a load of caterwauling about unrelated previously permitted work signed off by City Inspectors. They weren’t particularly happy that I had the manila envelope full of their permits and inspection signatures for these prior projects readily on hand making it impossible to claim they did not exist.
@administrator/Sarah B. I think Marian is talking about the parking lot between 23rd and 24th on Clement beside Gordo Taqueria. They’ve had a For Sale sign up there for a while now.
Eric Mar will try to do something about it. He’s pretty tight with the Massachusetts anti-eviction art mafia, Sarah Shortt (you’ve heard about her through prop G) and Rebecca Gourevitch. Neither of which are native San Franciscans.
@drake, what is your point about Sarah Shortt and Rebecca Gourevitch not being native SFers? Many (most?) of the people being evicted are long-time or native SFers who are being displaced by the influx of transplants from other cities and other states, and landlords who are not from here and/or do not live here. You can’t pick and choose what offends you about the transplant invasion.
Drake. don’t forget about recent transplant and knower of all that is good for SF Erin McElroy…she’s the worst of the anti-property ownership establishment…a scourge on our city that is much more prevalent than evictions.
Erin is an asset to the city. She has done a fabulous job with the anti-eviction mapping project which highlights the serial evicters which have been displacing tenants throughout the city. See antievictionmappingproject.org
Thank you 4thGenRichmond for that insight. It helps explain a lot.
That little commercial area is trying so hard to have charm and character and interesting services but until that auto repair shop goes away, I’m afraid it will always have the same veneer of run down seediness that corner oozes. I live around the corner and am at CVS and F&E several times a week and I swear I have never seen cars coming or going or being repaired for that matter. Just junky and rusted hulks sitting there and along with the little building being major eyesores!
actually, Sara is an adoptive san franciscan who has worked hard on behalf of so many working class and poor San Franciscans for a long time…people who came like sara who were queers, south americans (like myself and so many other Latinos), revolutionaries, and the mix of funky folks that made san francisco the beautiful place that it is….and truly, the mafia are the developers, the money launderers, those at City Hall and anyone else who is destroying the fabric of our city.
Rebecca and Sara have both contributed to the cultural fabric of our city. I am a Richmond Resident and a San Francisco native and because of people like them have been able to stay in the city.
Hmmmm… Given the concern that Sara and Rebecca and Erin are transplants, where is the concern for young adults who were born and raised here but cannot afford housing here and are forced out of their own hometown? I like my “scourges” with a heavy dose of class analysis, thank you very much. I feel indebted to to these amazing women who fight more hours than most people work at their jobs to keep people housed. People who teach, clean houses, care for children and seniors, electricians, nurses, muni and taxi drivers etc. you know-that other scourge of people who provide services, work hard, may now be ill or elderly, and are now priced out of decent housing. And just for the record, I’m a property owner, but it sure isn’t worth selling my soul over.