Overview
- Align Real Estate submitted an application for a two-tower, U-shaped complex at 15 Marina Blvd. with about 790 rental homes, including 86 affordable units, on the six-decade-old Safeway site next to Fort Mason.
- Mayor Daniel Lurie has formally come out against the proposal, while neighborhood groups and residents criticize the height and scale as out of character for the area.
- Pro-housing advocates including YIMBY Action back the filing as a significant addition to the city’s housing supply after years of limited building in the Marina.
- Safeway says it will return within the project in a new 63,000-square-foot store, with the current market closing during construction and employees reassigned to nearby locations.
- City legislation known as Family Zoning still awaits a second Board vote and the mayor’s signature and would cap future projects at roughly eight stories and bar use of state density bonuses at the site.