Supervisors advance Flower Mart development agreement with temporary site, expanded affordable housing fees

The Land Use & Transportation Committee on Dec. 9 moved a suite of measures advancing the long‑running effort to preserve the San Francisco Wholesale Flower Mart while clearing the way for a large mixed‑use development at Fifth and Brannon streets.

The committee considered two items: an ordinance establishing the 2000 Marin Street Special Use District to host a temporary flower‑market facility during construction, and a development agreement between the city and KR Flower Mart LLC (Kilroy Realty) for a multi‑phase office, retail and production‑distribution‑repair (PDR) project that would include a replacement wholesale flower market and a package of community benefits. Chair Aaron Peskin described the policy aim as ensuring “the flower market exists for another hundred years,” and said the measures would go to the full Board to continue ironing out details.

Planning department staff said the project would demolish existing buildings on the southern half of the Brannon block and construct three mixed‑use office buildings containing roughly 2.03 million square feet of office, 113,000 square feet of PDR (the new wholesale market), 83,000 square feet of retail and about 35,000 square feet of privately owned public open space across three phases. The city’s Prop M allocation process would apply to the first phase, and planning staff…