SF New Developments

by Judy Richter, Special to The Chronicle

Potrero Hill, one of San Francisco’s distinct, colorful neighborhoods, gets its name from “potrero nuevo” (new pasture), the place where cattle and goats grazed after Don Francisco de Haro received a land grant in 1835.

Now there’s a new Potrero on the hill. It’s a 165-unit condominium project filling the block bounded by Kansas, 17th, Rhode Island and Mariposa streets.

Moreover, people might be tempted to do some grazing of their own when Whole Foods opens its 46,000-square-foot market on the ground floor at 450 Rhode Island St. at 17th.

The first residents are expected to move in sometime this summer. Whole Foods is expected to open this month.

Built on the site of an S&C Ford repair shop, the Potrero comprises two buildings, labeled North and South, each with its own courtyard and separated by yet another courtyard, called the Mews.

Residences will include studios, one- and two-bedroom flats, and two- and three-bedroom town homes.

The North building will open first, offering studio, one-bedroom, one-bedroom plus den and two-bedroom units with prices from the low $400,000s to the $1 million range.

Monthly homeowner dues will average $385 for the studio units and go up to $480 to $505 for two-bedroom flats and the low to high $500s for town homes.

Each unit will have an underground parking space. Whole Foods will have its own 100-car underground garage.

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