Starbucks could get in on the ground floor of an effort to bring 20 new homes to San Francisco's Duboce Triangle neighborhood if plans filed this week are approved.
The new eight-story building would have two spaces for businesses looking out onto Market and Sanchez streets on its ground floor, with one planned to house a Starbucks coffee shop. No tenant has been selected for the second 250-square-foot space, and a start date for work at the site could be around 18 months away, depending on market conditions, 2201 Market LLC real estate developer Chris Foley told The Standard on Thursday.
A prior effort by Starbucks to bring a nearly 3,000-square-foot location to the site failed a decade ago. Starbucks did not respond to a request for comment by publication time.
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Above the ground-floor units would be 13 one-bedroom units, six two-bedroom units and a single three-bedroom unit, plans show.
The estimated total construction cost would be about $10 million and take about a year to complete. Three of the units would be listed as affordable, while the rest would be sold at market rate. There would be no parking or loading spaces, but it would include 23 bicycle parking spaces. The early-stage application was submitted Monday.
The current building was once home to San Francisco Stereo from the mid-1980s until about 2009. Its ghostly facade can be seen in Google Street View images from its heyday. Some reviews listed on a Yelp page for the long-gone shop describe the shopping experiences as less-than-satisfactory or good.
Other businesses previously listed at the address include a furniture retailer and two other office-based businesses.
A separate plan filed last August had sought permission to build a six-story, 65-foot building with 14 market-rate condominiums at the address.