Rebuilt in 2007 but having occupied the southwest corner of Lombard and Fillmore for over forty years, plans to demolish the freestanding KFC/Taco Bell building at 2101 Lombard Street are in the works.
As proposed, a five-story building with nine (9) two-bedroom condos over 3,000 square feet of ground floor retail space and an underground garage for 12 cars will rise up to 40-feet in height across the site, with 8-foot ceilings on the residential floors.
A rooftop deck and a patio over the garage entrance off Fillmore would serve as open space for the residents.
While not historic, the KFC was deemed “a fixture within the Marina District neighborhood” and “a traditional dining spot for local residents and for local business patrons as well as tourists,” with a “menu and service that the patrons have come to expect,” when the application to rebuild the original Kentucky Fried Chicken on the site was approved at the end of 2005.
We’ll keep you posted and plugged-in as the new plans progress.
Are there Any other 5 story bldgs on that stretch of Lombard? More density is good here.
This is a four story building with a roof deck. The Chelsea Motor Inn, across the street, is also four stories. Cannot imagine who would want to live over Lombard Street.
This has to stop. If we keep razing our
cheap joints for a quick gut plugtraditional dining spots then San Francisco will lose every last remnant of its suburban charm.What about affordable dining? Seems we have another crisis brewing.
Often the same people who don’t like new housing developments in their neighborhoods also don’t like new chain eateries in their neighborhoods: Divisadero is a good example of that.
Mel’s Diner is 10 feet away. So, hardly a loss for the neighborhood epicures.
I thought places on Lombard were encouraged (if not required) to mimic a 1950s / googie style. It would certainly be great if they did…
Stop this monstrosity! The very essence of San Francisco is being destroyed! Preserve the neighborhood. Think of the shadows!
taco bell and KFC are hardly the healthy choice….of course i am (hopefully) preaching to the choir? Now pass the secret sauce.
this “taco-hell” is not “duck” or a “decorative box”…..and it has no valid reason to be in the rich tapestry of SF fabric…BOOM!
Every architect pushes the limit here, so we can be a “kind and gentile” to the neighbors to drop a floor, recede some mass, and give affordable housing….It is all a chess game.
yay on the Venturi reference
This looks like 4 stories, no? Where’s the 5th? The roof deck?
From a Planning perspective, it’s technically a five-story building, but that includes the underground garage as reported above and is why we included the actual building height along with both a rendering and elevation for the development as proposed.
The Presidio Tunnel couple with this big glass box, will surely improve the district.
Ignoring public transit to a public park (1915 Pan American Exhibition line extension of the F-Line to the Presidio) was the first public trust error.
AHBP – and the push to densify without addressing infrastructure (aka Transit) is the second error
Allowing an architect to push such images, and elevations devoid of anything architecturally thought through, including materials and proportion, means you can leave the KFC and hope that something better comes along…..
By the way there’s another one out on Taraval that is near the SFPL and denotes nothing and is on an existing train line. That should go too, but hopefully with better architectural style…. and composition…..
Aaron,
That is the one I go to, so no it should stay.
Let’s get rid of the one at Guerrero and Duboce, too.
I feel like there was a preliminary project proposal submitted a few years back to do just that—or perhaps at Duboce & Valencia.
first they came for the gas stations, then the biodiesel sources, …. eventually we will be at the mercy of PG&E and the sun and the wind and the waves.
There is a strong argument to be made that much gas is generated from this tacobell location.
Are these double-branded fast food places found in other places or are they unique to SF? I remember one on Polk that had fish and chips, tempura and donuts: one stop for all your fried food needs.
Dual branded fast foodies are all over the USA as far as I can tell.
Yum! brands owns both KFC and Taco Bell, so they often co-locate to take maximize the value of their real estate.
There are definitely other double-branded “restaurants” around CA. My favorite, tho’ not technically double-branded, is a chain called Mr. Chau’s Chinese Fast Food. There was one near us that started out with just Chinese food, then added coffee drinks, then a bakery. They used to advertise “Any 3 items, only $5.99!” We used to try to make up the worst possible sounding combinations, such as “I’ll have the sweet and sour pork, a double mocha, and a bear claw, please.”
i like this.
same corporate owner (Yum Brands).
I think any growth the corporation is focusing on is in China.
love the quality of the pavement in that intersection (Filmore & Lombard), major streets, no?
must be historical asphalt
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! They have to take away our only fast food? WHY?
Because it’s horrible?
a ha ha ha ha, it will look nothing like this.
I’ve lived in the neighborhood for the better part of 20 years, and I’ve been to this place maybe half a dozen times. I’ve walked by it maybe a thousand times, but eat there? Yuck. It won’t be missed.
Anybody that’s spent any time in the Marina knows that there are plenty of pizza and burger joints within a short walk of this spot. It’s not like it’s a food desert, or anything.
it’s a desert if you take cost into account.
UPDATE: Lombard Street Fixture Shuttered