Overview
- The proposal replaces the long-running Marina Safeway with nearly 800 rental homes, including 86 affordable units, in a two-tower, U-shaped design by Arquitectonica.
- Safeway says it will return in a larger, 63,000-square-foot store within the project, with the existing market closing during construction and staff reassigned to nearby locations.
- Align’s application invokes SB330 to freeze current zoning, while the city’s newly approved Family Zoning plan awaits final adoption and would cap the site at roughly eight stories and restrict state bonus use.
- Mayor Daniel Lurie opposes the tower as the wrong location, pro-housing YIMBY Action welcomes the scale, and many neighbors criticize the height, traffic impacts, and pharmacy disruption.
- The Marina filing follows Align’s other Safeway-site redevelopments citywide, bringing the pipeline to about 3,500 units and roughly $3 billion in investment, with timelines still uncertain.