Bay Area

The architecture firm designing one of San Francisco’s most controversial proposed buildings recently released artistic renderings of the project, a 50-story skyscraper that would tower over the city’s Outer Sunset neighborhood.

An application for the building was first filed in April by developer CH Planning LLC, which has submitted various proposals for residential buildings at the site since 2020, the San Francisco Business Times reported. The 50-story tower is the developer’s most recent proposal for 2700 Sloat Boulevard, which sits two blocks from Ocean Beach and currently houses the Sloat Garden Center.

The proposed building would be 589 feet tall and contain 680 for-ownership homes along with retail shops, SF Yimby reported.

Artistic renderings of the project were recently released by architect Solomon Cordwell Buenz, and portray the building towering over a neighborhood otherwise devoid of structures taller than 100 feet.

Renderings show the building to have soft, rounded edges and glass balconies. The drawings include a large deck, mostly facing Sloat Boulevard, which is set above double-height windows that showcase the building’s gym and retail shops, according to SF Yimby.

The renderings were submitted to the city along with CH Planning’s most recently revised version of the proposal, which utilizes the state’s density bonus to build more units by allocating a higher percentage of them to affordable housing. The plans now propose that 110 of the building’s units be affordable and restricted to those making 80% of the city’s median income, according to SF Yimby.

City officials aren’t yet on board with the project. City staff wrote in a response to the new proposal that the building would be 316% taller than the area’s zoning regulations allow for, according to SF Yimby. The San Francisco Planning Department also wrote that the revised plan does not comply with the city’s planning code, meaning that rezoning would need to take place in order for the building to become a reality.

Overall, the structure would sit at 669,010 square feet, with 484,930 square feet of housing. Its units would include 328 studios, 176 one-bedroom units, 108 two-bedroom units and 68 three-bedroom units.