While the public hearing for the proposed 14-story development to rise on the northwest corner of First and Harrison, a prominent Rincon Hill parcel currently occupied by a Union 76 gas station, was pushed back until this afternoon, the project has just been granted an exemption from having to complete a lengthy Environmental Review and is slated to be approved.
Dubbed “Modera” and designed by TCA Architects for Mill Creek Residential, the proposed 390 1st Street development totals 180 apartments (a mix of 57 studios, 50 one-bedrooms, 68 two-bedrooms and 5 three-bedrooms) with a small corner cafe and underground garage for around 90 cars.
I wonder what the City planners have envisioned for drivers in San Francisco who need gas for their cars, since every gas station will soon be turned into condos. All electric? Gas delivery apps? Not that I encourage the use of cars in the City, but just curious.
I though everyone here was all into “The Invisible Hand of the Market.”
Only when it comes to housing for poor people!
zing!
Planners discourage private auto transport in favor of public and ride sharing options.
Update: SFFD says gas delivery startups not allowed, LOL.
a beautiful bldg when seen from a drone or the 20th floor of something. The pedestrian/driver/mass transit rider’s view of this would not be quite as exciting. Or maybe as exciting as a box canyon in New Mexico. Should have done the EIR.
I can tell you that people aren’t walking around the 1st st Bay Bridge On Ramp for the view.
Well, there’s this plan for a bike/ped path…
Seems it must be tough to be stuck in some godforesaken where ever.
The gas station looks better.
I guess that’s the end of the Jasper’s “living wall” of plants.
Count me in for the invisible hand. And I think Adam Smith is seeing that not a lot of people are going to need gas in years to come (I visit a gas station about every couple of months with my plug-in).
It seems like about half of the cars in SF during the day came over the bay bridge, so if there are fewer stations, hopefully it will transfer a lot of gas demand over there. Add to that everyone who commutes outward, to the peninsula or east bay, and that’s a lot of car owners who can more easily and cheaply fill up at the non-SF end of their commutes. As number of stations declines I expect that’s what we’ll see as people get impatient about waiting in line to fill up.
It is especially hard though, on people who live and work inside the city, have a driving commute, and don’t have a reason to leave it regularly. This is still a good point and will continue to be as long as driving remains the only efficient way to travel across the city outside of a couple very small corridors properly served by a subway (BART, not Muni Metro joke)
SF is so spoiled. I live in Sacramento and there are maybe 2 gas stations in the entire downtown/ midtown grid encompassing approx. 650 square blocks. And Sac is a much more car oriented city.
Actually there are five gas stations in the Grid (within the freeways). At least another 7 if you expand your definition to Alhambra and Broadway, and dozens more within a few miles.
Kinda of a weird statement, that SF is spoiled for gas stations vs. Sac.
90 cars? Downtown? What a travesty!
UPDATE: Development to Replace Rincon Hill Gas Station Redesigned