Cost To Build Affordable Housing On Sixth Street: $690K Per Unit
With a 99-year ground lease from the City of San Francisco for which Mercy Housing will pay a total of $99 as proposed, the projected cost of building the affordable…
Sixth Street Rising: Hugo Hotel Replacement Recap/Timing
With defenestration deconstructed and the demolition permits for the old Hugo Hotel working their way through Planning, it’s time to take another look at the 9-story building to rise on…
Defenestration Coming Down, Sixth Street Rising Up
Defenestration, the “temporary” art installation that has defined the long-shuttered Hugo Hotel and neighborhood for nearly two decades, is being dismantled this morning and the building from which the installation…
Commission Slated To Certify Mercy’s Impact On Sixth Street
Two weeks from now, San Francisco’s Planning Commission is slated to certify the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for Mercy Housing to move forward with their plans to build a nine-story…
Defenestration’s Days Are Numbered
With a plan in place to mitigate the loss of the Hugo Hotel at 200 6th Street, deemed to be a contributing resource for the newly defined “6th Street Lodginghouse…
Mercy Me: Hugo Hotel Is Historically Significant, The Plan To Mitigate
In order for Mercy Housing to move forward with their plans to build a new nine-story residential building with 67 affordable housing units on the corner of 6th and Howard…
Redeveloping Sixth Street: Corner Of Sixth And Howard As Envisoned
As far as we know, Mercy Housing has yet to secure the $19 million it will take to raze the four-story Hugo Hotel which has sat vacant since 1987 and…
The Designs For Sixth And Howard Before Redevelopment Was Razed
While the razing of the Hugo Hotel and construction of nine new stories at 200 6th Street has been waylaid by the loss of the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, a…