Abandoned as an industrial site over 25 years ago, the 20-acre Schlage Lock site represents one of the largest opportunities to redevelop a brownfield site within an existing San Francisco neighborhood.
After 10 years of community planning effort, the City of San Francisco and Visitacion Valley Neighborhood completed an award-winning master plan in 2009. With the loss of public financing that resulted from the 2011 demise of the Redevelopment Agency, PYATOK and GLS Landscape | Architecture were retained to reorganize the master plan to allow for a 25% increase in new residential units while preserving open space and the fundamental design principles of the original Design for Development.
The revised plan was unanimously adopted by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors with strong community support. PYATOK was then brought on as the lead architect for first phase of this major addition to the Visitacion Valley neighborhood. MBH and Groundworks joined the design team for Phase I, intended to include 410 units, community-serving retail and new full-service grocery store, and an extensive network of parks and open spaces designed by GLS.