Hallidie Plaza . San Francisco Western Triangle Market St & Cyril Magnin St . The site is located in a very strategic area, social services and homeless services at the nexus of tourism and shopping in organizations. The median household San Francisco, California. Adjacent and income of this area drops to about $22k. part of a popular plaza (Hallidie Plaza), it is just steps away from the Powell street The site is a small plot in triangular shape, cable car turnaround, the Visitor with frontage on Market Street and Cyril Information Center and the Westfield Magnin Street, with a lower level plaza Shopping Center, and a few blocks from (public space to be maintained) and a Moscone Convention Center. The site is in higher level (street front), connected by an area bustling with shoppers and vertical circulation for pedestrians. tourists at nearly all hours of the day and The current planning rules do not permit evening. new development or structures of any Perfectly connected to transportation height or size on this site. However, the networks, the site is at the center of City of San Francisco invites the businesses, cultural, and recreational applicants to propose creative proposal opportunities. with high environmental performance and landmark architecture. If a great project is This site is located at the gate of the identified through this competition, the Financial District including shopping, City will consider rezoning this strategic tourism, and employment centers. The site. median income of residents in the financial districts is over $117k, The future developments should support significantly higher than the citywide rate and amplify a renewed Market Street that of about $82k. A couple blocks to the west will anchor the neighborhoods, link public of this site the conditions are starkly open spaces and connect the City's Civic different. The Tenderloin neighborhood is Center with cultural, social, convention, home to the highest concentration of tourism, and retail destinations. homeless population along with many Expected program: accessible location, and to redesign or improve the adjacent Hallidie Plaza, which is The City is open to an innovative program for not currently part of the Site, to better serve the Site that addresses the constructability as an active, vibrant public open space. challenges of such a small parcel, and integrates with the active and pedestrian Owner: friendly nature of adjoining uses. The City and the County of San Francisco. In addition, respondents are encouraged to seek improvements on the lower level plaza Plot area: and terraces between it and the street front 8,915 square feet, triangular in shape . above, in consideration of the need for pedestrian vertical circulation. They will also Type of property transfer intended: consider programming to relocate the current Lease or sale. Visitor Center to a more visible and easily Presentation of the site and expectation for its redevelopment The site is located in a strategic area of San yet another high-volume local transit Francisco as described above. connection via the existing Powell Street Station as well as another entrance under The site is also very well connected. It is construction one block away at Market and immediately adjacent to the Powell Street Stockton Streets. Hallidie Plaza also serves Station, which provides access to both the as the terminus of the historic Powell-Masonic Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) regional and Powell-Hyde cable car lines, and serves commuter rail service and multiple lines of the as a major tourist desination and gathering local MUNI Metro subway system. The area. The Site is also well served by bicycle property sits on Market Street, where several infrastructure, with separated bike lanes MUNI regular and rapid bus lines run on running along Market Street at the Site and dedicated lanes, as well as the historic F several Bay Area Bike Share dock stations streetcar line which offers service to the located within a 0.25 mile radius. waterfront/Embarcadero area to the northeast or to the Castro neighborhood to the The City site is 8,915 square feet in size, southwest. In addition, the new Central triangular in shape, with frontage on Market Subway connector running between the 4th Street and Cyril Magnin Street, with a lower and King CalTrain regional commuter rail level plaza (public space to be maintained) station in the SoMa area to the southeast and and a higher level (street front), connected by to Chinatown to the north will, in 2019, afford pedestrians vertical circulation. Specific planning rules and bidding procedure regarding the development of the site The property is zoned P (Public). Permitted In addition to the rezoning actions that would uses include structures and uses of be needed, San Francisco maintains a robust governmental agencies, and certain ancillary planning and environmental review process, non-public uses as specified in Planning with many opportunities for public Code Section 211.1. Certain other uses may engagement and input, for development be permitted with a Conditional Use projects of the scale permitted on this Site. Authorization from the Planning Commission. The awardee will be required to follow all The Site has a height and bulk classification required steps of the standard development of OS (Open Space), which does not permit review and entitlement process for any new development or structures of any height proposed project. Once the awardee has or size, other than those ancillary to the open executed an Exclusive Negotiating space function of the site, as determined to be Agreement (ENA) (see #6 below), the in conformance with the General Plan. development team will be required to submit an application for a Preliminary Project Because the Site is currently zoned to strictly Assessment (PPA) before submitting any limit development, the Site would have to be planning or building applications. The rezoned to a zoning district permitting the Planning Department will review the proposed uses and would require a height application and issue a PPA letter within 90 map amendment to allow for construction of a days outlining all relevant Planning and new building of the proposed height. These Design Review requirements and all actions would require approval by the San necessary approvals and further review Francisco Planning Commission and the relevant to the proposed project. The Board of Supervisors (San Francisco’s development team will also be required to legislative body) in order for a project submit an Environmental Evaluation proposing non-confirming uses and heights to Application (EEA) to initiate the environmental proceed. review process. The EEA may be submitted concurrently with or following the submittal of the PPA. The development team will also be RFP/RFQ. Typically a reviewing committee required to file a Historical Resource composed of technical experts within City Evaluation – Supplemental Information form staff, along with appropriate representative(s) along with the EEA. The EEA will determine of the affected community would then rank the what level of environmental review responses based on the guidelines determination, if any, is required for the established and tender a recommndation. proposed projects and outline the next steps. Ultimately, the delivery of an award of lease or sale is a discretionary decision of the Board Regarding the bidding procedure for the of Supervisors and Mayor, and the award second phase of the competition, the offer to would be in the form of an Exclusive purchase or lease the real estate would Negotiating Agreement (ENA). require that offerors respond to a city-issued Subsequently, the awardee and City would Request for Proposals/Request for negotiate a Purchase and Sale Agreement Qualifications (RFP/RFQ). Responses would (PSA), which would set forth the exact terms be rated in accordance with guidelines and conditions of a conveyance of rights. developed prior to the issuance of the Specific climate or environmental issues regarding the development of the site hills, businesses to neighborhoods, cultural The property lies at a confluence of major centers to recreational opportunities. The pedestrian traffic, transit on adjoining Market movement of people and goods, from the very Steet and Powell Street, and has significant earliest times, has dominated Market Streets noise issues as a result. The Site is located in design and use. Better Market Street is an effort an Air Pollutant Exposure Zone such that to deliver transformative transportation, enhanced ventilation may be required for streetscape and safety improvements along 2.2 residential uses, and is located in an area with a miles of Market Street between Octavia high to medium-high heat vulnerability index Boulevard and the Embarcadero. Development (https://sfclimatehealth.org/maps/) . While on a at the Site should consider how it will support relatively flat site, given the existence of the and amplify a renewed Market Street that will lower level plaza, there are opportunities to be anchor neighborhoods, link public open spaces creative with lower level uses, but doing so and connect the City's Civic Center with cultural, requires addressing any flooding issues as a social, convention, tourism, and retail result. The site does have constructability destinations. For more information go to: challenges given the active and pedestrian http://www.bettermarketstreetsf.org/ friendly nature of adjoining uses. The Site is located on Market Street, San Francisco's civic backbone, connecting water to .