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City and architects present concept for 1500–1580 Mission Street: mixed‑use towers, permit center and partial retention of Coca‑Cola building
Summary
Planning staff and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill presented an informational briefing on a mixed‑use development at 1500–1580 Mission Street proposing roughly 550 residential units (20% affordable), a consolidated city office/permit center and partial retention of the historic Coca‑Cola bottling building; the item was informational and no vote was taken.
Planning staff and the project design team presented an informational briefing on Nov. 2 for a large mixed‑use proposal at 1500–1580 Mission Street that would consolidate multiple city offices and create a one‑stop public permit center while adding a substantial residential component.
Staff outlined the site (two parcels on Mission Street between 11th Street and South Van Ness Avenue) and explained the project would demolish most of 1580 Mission and parts of 1550 Mission and rehabilitate portions of the 1927 Coca‑Cola bottling plant, including its clock tower. The project team described two major components: a ~400‑foot residential tower (about 550 units, ~20% affordable) with ground‑floor retail, and a ~265‑foot office tower to house several city departments and a large permit center designed to consolidate current, far‑flung permitting functions.
Craig Hartman, design lead for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, emphasized urban‑design goals: porosity and active ground‑floor frontage, photovoltaic arrays, water‑use reduction and extensive wind‑tunnel and computational fluid dynamics testing to meet the city’s wind‑velocity ordinance. He illustrated a proposed forum linking Van Ness to the site interior, public galleries and a civic “veiled” glass entry with a small city gallery and the city seal on the façade to increase public transparency.
The team discussed alternatives for how much of the Coca‑Cola building to retain and how to integrate it with the new massing. Staff said the environmental review (draft EIR) was expected to be published the following week, and that project entitlements would go to the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors in March 2017. Commissioners asked about cultural‑landscape treatments and neighborhood connectivity; the team pointed to the forum, gallery space and an open pedestrian alley as tools to tie the new development to surrounding neighborhoods.
The item was informational only and no commission action was required that day. Staff and the architect asked for continued feedback and indicated further hearings and environmental review would follow.
