Plans Floated For 150 Units Of Housing At Shuttered Van Ness McDonalds Site

The McDonalds at 600 Van Ness Avenue closed abruptly this January after 36 years, as Hoodline reported at the time, and now plans are being entertained for a 9-story mixed use residential building on the 13,080 square foot land parcel where the two-story fast food joint stills stands like a suburban sore thumb.

Hoodline and Curbed report that the plans, filed last week, call for 150 units across 9-stories (the site is zoned for up to 130 feet in height). Those units would be 87 studio, 37 one-bedroom, and 26 two-bedrooms apartments Among them might be several two-story townhouses.

Plans also allotted for 4,800 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Underground parking with an entrance on Golden Gate would provide 108 spaces for cars, with 105 for biking on the ground floor along with a lobby, office, lounge, and leasing office.

The design, which is for two towers with glass skybridge walkways between them, has an interesting backstory. The neighboring Bay Area Women’s and Children’s Center, a nonprofit that acts as part of the Tenderloin Community School at 627 Turk, worked with the developer and expressed their concerns about shadows from the new building — hence the terrace-like design increasing in heigh from Elm to Golden Gate — and their views of city hall — hence the two towers with just glass between them, retaining the views.