300 Ivy Street 2011 in Review, Apartments, On the Boards, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Just a block from the newly widened Octavia Boulevard—a boutique retail corridor that replaced the demolished Central Freeway—401 Grove will be a mixed-use development of urban market-rate homes and shops.

At the southwest corner of Grove and Gough Streets in Hayes Valley, the development is planned to bring 63 new flats and townhouses to the neighborhood. Along Gough Street, lively storefronts will make up a pedestrian-friendly retail row, with prominent corner facades at both Ivy and Grove.

The main building entry, as well as the townhouse row, will face the shaded, low-profile Ivy Street, creating a peaceful entry into a private landscaped courtyard, with a lobby beyond. Townhouses have individual entries on Ivy Street.

Behind, homes are clustered around the courtyard, opening out to the shared space via terraces and decks. At Grove, apartments will have stoop entries.

The homes will sit atop open and inviting retail storefronts and follow a pattern and scale consistent with the neighborhood.

An extensive roof deck is planned to include allotment vegetable gardens, a green roof, an outdoor kitchen and dining area, and city views.

The roof will be designed to accommodate photo-voltaic arrays and a solar-thermal-panel system that would potentially generate more than 50% of the residential hot-water demand. Solar thermal is an extremely efficient and cost-effective energy-saving strategy, and just one of the building’s wide range of planned complementary sustainable features.

In response to the central, transit-rich location, this project is “parking lite," with one automobile space for every two units. There is extensive enclosed bicycle parking, much of it in a convenient bike station right by the front door.

project details

Developer

Ivy Grove Partners LLC

Architect

David Baker + Partners

Landscape Architect

Fletcher Studio

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