Valencia Gardens
The new pedestrian friendly residential development will
open its doors to the community on Valencia Street. |
Located in San Francisco's Mission District, the new family development will replace 246 dilapidated and blighted public housing units with 260 new mixed income flats and townhouse units with multi-purpose facilities. The revitalization also includes a new ancillary senior housing site with 60 new apartments and a new senior center.
Defensible design features include front door off right of way, private back yards and decks, secured trash access areas and fenced-in play yards.
Valencia Gardens HOPE VI Housing
1997 Grant
(Due for completion in 2005)
- Developer: Mission Housing Development Corporation
- Property Manager: The John Stewart Company
- $23.2 M in HOPE VI Funds and $39.4 M in other Funds=$63.6 M
- Proposed Product - All 246 existing public housing apartments will be completely replaced with new construction on site. After the HOPE Revitalization, there will be 260 apartments and 568 bedrooms on-site.
- The Valencia Gardens HOPE VI Revitalization Program gave way to development activities at the under-utilized portion of the Rosa Parks Senior Center (1111 Buchanan) that could be an appropriate location to develop another 60 units of senior housing. A deteriorating senior services building currently occupies the site, and will be replaced by the proposed program given approval and funding availability.
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