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Commission reviews preservation alternatives for 447 Battery; project sponsor argues demolition may be necessary to deliver new fire station
Summary
Planning staff and the project sponsor presented alternatives for a proposal that would relocate a fire station to 447 Battery Street and demolish a locally listed Article 10 resource; the commission took comments and requested that alternatives and rejected sites be documented in the draft EIR.
The Historic Preservation Commission on Jan. 15 reviewed preservation alternatives for a development proposal that would relocate a fire station to 447 Battery Street and demolish the existing Article 10–listed Jones Building (447 Battery). Planning staff asked the commission to comment on whether the project sponsor’s analysis of feasible preservation alternatives satisfies CEQA requirements for the upcoming draft environmental impact report.
Project sponsor presentations described a multi-block project with a mixed-use tower at 530 Sansom and a standalone fire station proposed at 447 Battery. The sponsor’s team said earlier project iterations that placed the fire station beneath a tower (or co-located within the western parcel) are no longer economically feasible, in part because of post‑COVID market conditions and structural constraints: modern fire apparatus require larger bay widths and vertical clearance than the Jones Building’s historic floor heights…
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