Watch the video: The Parkmerced Vision
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Parkmerced is creating a whole new kind of community in San Francisco by transforming one of the City’s most unique neighborhoods into a sustainable, pedestrian-friendly community. We’ve worked with our residents and neighbors to bring together the best and the brightest in their respective fields to reimagine the way people live and connect in an urban environment. It is a new kind of urban living — a city within a city. At Parkmerced, nothing is impossible.
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Meandering pedestrian paths surrounded by a large recreational lawn area for community activities and gatherings.
North-South Streets are lined with tall trees, oriented to block the salt-laden westerly winds.
Places for residents of Parkmerced to gather, the Neighborhood Commons are active open spaces dedicated to social engagement and recreation.
Rainwater is channeled through a new stream corridor, filtering water to reduce the impact on the City’s waste water treatment plants, while restoring a connection to Lake Merced.
Sports fields offer residents of Parkmerced the opportunity to participate in active recreation.
Connecting the eastern and western edges, Parkmerced’s Gonzalez Drive weaves through the neighborhood, creating a robust green link for people, water and habitat from SFSU to Lake Merced.
As the primary access street for Parkmerced, Gonzalez Drive orients residents and visitors, making finding your way through the neighborhood easier and more convenient.
Similar to other San Francisco neighborhood-serving retail streets, Crespi Drive provides convenient access to services and amenities, increasing the community’s livability.
Walkways that cut through the middle of the blocks provide a variety of engaging routes for pedestrians and cyclists to choose from as they move through the neighborhood.
Alley ways are intended to be streetscape environments where auto traffic is slowed and pedestrians have priority. Their design helps dissipate persistent westerly winds with a row of taller, wind deflecting trees, while collecting rainwater into a network of biogutters.
Focusing vehicle access to these North-South Streets allows other streets to be calmer and more pedestrian focused.
Replacing typical gutters and storm drains, a network of bioswales and biogutters makes rainwater an integral and visible part of the streetscape.
The backbone of the site hydrology, the Stream Corridor is a rich habitat attracting an array of native wildlife from insects to birds.
Collecting rainwater helps establish a healthy ecosystem to supply irrigation to plantings within Juan Bautista Circle and flow further into the stream corridor.
Native species have been selected to work with the natural hydrology of the site, requiring little irrigation.
This area will be used as a nursery to grow trees that will be moved elsewhere on the site later. This is done to acclimate the plants to this climate and soil before putting them into their final location, as part of our Tree Replacement Program.
Some of the new buildings at Parkmerced will require some trees to be relocated. In the event that a tree cannot be relocated and must be removed, Parkmerced will replace every tree that is removed with three new trees elsewhere on the site.
Living well and being well are critical not only to sustain life, but for life to thrive. A community fitness center will provide opportunities for recreation and social interaction.
Living well and being well are critical not only to sustain life, but for life to thrive. A community fitness center will provide opportunities for recreation and social interaction.
Evenly distributed throughout Parkmerced, neighborhood commons will be social gathering places anchored by small retail shops, business centers for work at home, outdoor activities, bike and car share pods.
Incorporating a relocated stop for the M-line into a new transit plaza with connections to bus lines and a new shuttle route that connects to BART makes transit more convenient for residents and neighbors of Parkmerced.
The light rail tracks for the M-line on 19th Ave, between Crespi Drive and Junipero Serra Blvd., are proposed to be relocated so the train engages Parkmerced.
The potential for a future extension of the light rail tracks would connect to Daly City BART, providing a transit link to the entire Bay Area.
A low-emissions shuttle to BART provides residents of Parkmerced with a direct transit connection to a regional rail system.
Parkmerced offers residents monthly transit passes, pre-loaded with free rides for a multiple of transportation options.
The new transit plaza makes connections to light rail and BART more convenient for all transit riders in this part of the city.
Tapia Street is designed as a bicycle boulevard that offers a dedicated bicycle path for enhanced enjoyment and safety.
Whether heading to work or to a picnic at Lake Merced, a network of bicycle libraries makes it more convenient to get out of your car and ride a bike!
The 19th Ave corridor will have improved pedestrian safety and neighborhood access by introducing new, northbound left turn lanes at Chumaserro Blvd.
New landscaping, street furnishings and traffic improvements along this stretch of 19th Avenue and Junipero Serra Boulevard, between Crespi Drive and Brotherhood Way, will help to stitch together neighborhoods on both sides of this major corridor.
Three new intersections along Lake Merced Blvd. increase the overall accessibility to Parkmerced, helping to reduce congestion at any one intersection.
North-south streets act as secondary access roads focusing auto traffic along a limited number of streets as they pass through the neighborhood.
In order to help make the street pattern at Parkmerced more legible, Gonzalez Drive provides a much needed neighborhood throughway from which all streets at Parkmerced can be accessed.
Adding dedicated merging lanes on Junipero Serra Boulevard and BrotherhoodWay and improving sidewalk areas will make this interchange more pedestrian friendly while improving traffic flow.
Locating the majority of parking stalls on the west side of Parkmerced, away from transit encourages people to think twice before getting in the car to go to the grocery store.
Strategically located throughout the neighborhood, carshare “pods” will provide residents of Parkmerced with various types of cars for a range of uses, such as a regional outing or moving furniture.
Many blocks located in the neighborhood “social heart” will not include parking at all, allowing courtyards to be truly on grade and reducing the amount of cars in the center of the neighborhood.
The vast majority of parking is located below grade, allowing for a seamless ground plane, uninterrupted by parking lots, parked cars or unsightly parking structures.
Within each block is the potential for the creation of a small scale energy grid, complete with cogeneration equipment that convert waste heat into a useful energy source.
Parkmerced will install a dual plumbing system for recycled water. When available, recycled water will be used for irrigation, laundry and toilet flushing.
Each building at Parkmerced will be designed to have at least 50% of its roof area to permit installation of south facing solar collectors.
Utilizing waste heat from commercial uses to help heat water as it passes through the District Water loop helps reduce unnecessary consumption of natural resources and provides cooling for retail.
Approximately 64 homes, ranging from studios to 3 bedroom, and includes a community room, landscaping and close proximity to Lake Merced. Detailed View
Approximately 89 homes, ranging from studios to 3 bedrooms. Amenities include 1st floor lounge and terrace, a second floor fitness center and potentially a roof-level terrace. Detailed View
Design includes two 11-story component towers that sit atop a two-level underground parking garage. 248 homes that range from studios to 3 Bedrooms, including residents lounge, fitness center, and common work areas. Detailed View
Includes a 14 and 5 story, comprising approximately 266 homes, ranging from studios to 3 bedrooms, approximately 324 space parking garage, approximately 332 Class-1 bicycle parking spaces, a common lobby and a community garden. Detailed View
Includes two 14-story residential buildings with approximately 329 homes over an underground garage, with approximately 266 parking spaces, 160 Class-1 bicycle parking spaces and adjacent to an approximately 15,000 square foot Neighborhood Common with active play areas. Detailed View
Existing residents of the blocks within 1C will then have the option to move into a newly constructed unit within Subphase 1A.
Existing residents of the blocks within 1D will then have the option to move into a newly constructed unit within Subphase 1A.
Parkmerced has always been a special place. Originally designed in 1942, it was a valiant attempt to recreate the values of suburban living in the city, where everything was built around the car. But times and values have changed. Welcome to the new chapter.