"The Potrero Yard Modernization Project was ambitious: 513 affordable rental units, comprising over 700 bedrooms, atop the sprawling Muni bus yard at 17th and Bryant in the Mission. There would be three ground-floor storefronts to add foot traffic to what can be a desolate stretch of pavement, and a sprawling rooftop park. It would have been the largest affordable housing project in the Mission District in recent memory, but no longer."
"In the current plans, the Potrero Bus Yard will change from a sunken parking and maintenance area for city buses into a one-story building, with a narrow strip of affordable housing at the western edge of the yard along Bryant, between 17th and 18th streets. The agency wrote that the "primary focus" of its efforts on Bryant Street are "making the bus yard financially feasible." Construction of the bus yard would last four years and it would reopen in 2030."
The original Potrero Yard plan envisioned 513 affordable rental units (over 700 bedrooms) above the Muni bus yard at 17th and Bryant, plus three storefronts and a rooftop park. The SFMTA announced a cut to 100 units, citing unaffordability and the need to lower costs. Modernizing the 110-year-old bus yard was estimated at about $560 million, driven largely by structural work to make the yard roof support housing. The revised design converts the yard to a one-story facility with a narrow strip of housing along Bryant, emphasizes making the bus yard financially feasible, and targets reopening in 2030 after a four-year build.
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