The proposed project would include: (1) demolition of the existing, vacant 24-foot-high, 23,600-square-foot (sq.ft.) retail building (Cala Foods) and removal of the existing 42-space parking lot; and (2) construction of a four-story, 115,400-sq.ft. retail/residential building with a 34,400-sq.ft. ground-floor specialty grocery store (Whole Foods), 62 residential units in 81,000 sq.ft., and an additional three-level, 176-space subterranean garage (90,000 sq.ft.) with 114 grocery store parking spaces and 62 residential parking spaces. There would be 26 studio units, 20 one-bedroom units, 15 two-bedroom units, and one three-bedroom unit.
The 34,000-sq.ft. project site is located on the northeast corner of the intersection of Haight and Stanyan Streets, on the block also bound by Page Street to the north and Shrader Street to the east in San Francisco's Haight Ashbury neighborhood. The project site is in the Haight Street Neighborhood Commercial district (Haight NCD) with a 50-X height and bulk district on the western portion of the lot and a 40-X height and bulk district on the eastern portion.