The proposed 2235 Third Street project would create a cluster of mixed-use buildings containing a total of approximately 242,185 sq. ft. of floor area; the project would include approximately 179 units of housing; 6,926 sq. ft. of neighborhood serving restaurant and cafe uses, 12,154 sq. ft. of ground floor pedestrian-oriented retail space along Third Street; and 2,300 sq. ft. of ground floor daycare services. Twelve percent of the total dwelling units, or approximately 22 of the total units would be reserved as Below Market Rate (BMR) units pursuant to the City's Inclusionary Affordable Housing Program.

The project would also include a below-grade garage accessed from Illinois Street with approximately 157 parking spaces (36 independently accessed, one off-street City Car-share space, and 120 stacked), 50 bicycle spaces, and two off-street loading spaces.

The proposed project would preserve the two historic buildings fronting on Third Street and build two new structures between the two historic buildings that would vary between 35 feet (three stories) at the edge of the Third Street property line up to a maximum of 50 feet (five stories) in two portions of the new structures that would be set back 20 feet from the Third Street property line.

The project would also construct a new 65-foot-tall (six-story) structure on Illinois Street, with the upper penthouse floor set back approximately six feet from the Illinois Street property line. Pedestrians would enter the proposed project from three recessed plazas located off Third Street and one pedestrian stairway from Illinois Street. The proposal includes approximately 8,884 sq. ft. of common open space in the form of a large internal landscaped courtyard, roof-top open space, and three new publicly accessible "pocket plazas" along the Third Street frontage. The project would also include approximately 4,800 sq. ft. of private usable open space in the form of 83 terraces and balconies.

The new buildings were designed with major input over a two-year period from the Dogpatch Neighborhood Association and Planning Department preservation staff to compliment the scale of Third Street and to protect the integrity of the two historic warehouses on the project site.

The project would also include a re-zoning of the project site from its current M-2 District zoning to create a temporary “DCWP Demonstration District” that would enact most of the controls proposed in the January 2003 DCWP Mixed-Use Residential District and increase the existing Height & Bulk District from 50-X to 65-X. Go to the DCWP Zoning section for more details.

The 2235 Third Street project will help finance and the GreenTrust , San Francisco’s first non-profit, neighborhood-based open space trust fund. Its purpose is to promote the maintenance and expansion of green spaces in the Central Waterfront beginning with the development of a strategic greening plan based on the Draft Central Waterfront Plan (DCWP).