SF New Developments

It looks like the obvious bidder to develop Seawall Lot 337 in the northeast corner of San Francisco’s Mission Bay has finally announced that they will throw their hat in the ring according to The San Francisco Business Times.

The San Francisco Giants will look to team with Cordish Co. to develop some sort of mixed-use facility on the 13.6 acre parking lot just across the water in Mission Bay.

Clearly an important space for the Giants as the lot currently provides 2000 parking spaces and is the primary parking lot.

What will be built on this lot? Potentially housing! Condos or rentals but most likely the latter because the land will be leased from The Port of San Francisco and trying to sell condos with a ground lease will require some sort of discount (although, doesn’t anybody remember the Beacon?).

Giants swing at waterfront project
Ballclub teams up with Cordish for shot at prime property
San Francisco Business Times - by J.K. Dineen

The San Francisco Giants have joined forces with Baltimore-based Cordish Co. in a bid to develop the 13.6-acre parking lot across the Lefty O’Doul Bridge from AT&T Park.

While the concept is in the early stages, and other development teams are still coalescing, the Giants-Cordish group will be a clear front-runner in the competition to take on the prime port-owned waterfront parcel known as Seawall Lot 337.

Cordish specializes in mixed-use projects linked to ballparks. The team also includes San Francisco-based Farallon Capital Management as a financial partner and architect SMWM as part of a larger design group, according to Giants Senior Vice President Jack Bair.

Bair said the proposal would be a “mixed-use project that includes a substantial open space component.

“We want the space to have public feel and be synergistic with the ballpark and compatible with the surrounding neighborhood,” said Bair.

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• Port of San Francisco’s Seawall Lot 337 Public Workshop Outcomes
• SF Planning Department’s Mission Bay Waterfront Design Objectives [pdf]
• SocketSite’s Coverage on Mission Bay’s Seawall Lot 337
• Curbed SF’s Seawall Lot 337 Planning Challenge

One potential design alternative as presented by the Port of San Francisco…