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Draft EIR finds demolition would substantially harm historic 447 Battery Street; HPC concurred with analysis
Summary
Planning staff presented a draft EIR for a proposed 18‑story hotel at 447 Battery Street and concluded that the project would cause a significant and unavoidable impact to an individually eligible historic resource (the 1907 Jones Terbach Coffee Company building). The draft EIR analyzes mitigation (documentation, interpretive programs) and alternatives including full and partial preservation; public commenters and preservationists urged retention and landmarking.
Planning Department staff presented the draft environmental impact report (DEIR) for the proposed 447 Battery Street hotel, explaining that the project would demolish or substantially alter an individually eligible historic resource and that mitigation measures identified in the DEIR would not avoid a significant and unavoidable impact to that resource.
Rachel Schott, environmental review coordinator, summarized key conclusions: the building (constructed 1907, eligible under multiple criteria) would experience a substantial adverse change because facade retention would not meet…
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