Armstrong Place

Format
Brief

City
San Francisco

State/Province
CA

Country
USA

Metro Area
San Francisco

Project Type
Mixed Residential

Location Type
Other Central City

Land Uses
Multifamily For-Sale Housing
Multifamily Rental Housing
Open space
Retail
Senior Housing
Single-family Attached Housing

Keywords
Affordable housing
Intergenerational housing
LEED Gold certified
Social services
Sustainable development
Townhouses
Transit-oriented development
ULI Awards for Excellence 2012 Global Winner

Site Size
3.1 acres
acres hectares

Date Started
2009

Date Opened
2010

A brief is a short version of a case study.

Armstrong Place creates an environment for multigenerational interaction in affordable housing by combining 116 affordable senior apartments with 124 below-market-rate townhouses and 7,600 square feet (706 m2) of ground-floor retail space on 3.1 acres (1.25 ha) in the Third Street corridor in San Francisco, California. The senior apartments are targeted towards very-low-income seniors with 23 reserved for formerly homeless seniors. The townhouses are geared to first-time homebuyers whose annual income is between 60%–120% of the area median income. The development covers a full city block, allowing for denser housing to be built around central communal green spaces.

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Developer/Owner
BRIDGE Housing Corporation
San Francisco, CA

Architect
David Baker + Partners
San Francisco, CA

Principal Author
Shai Karp

ULI Awards for Excellence 2012 Global Winner

Note: This Case Study Brief draws extensively on information and text from the Armstrong Place 2012 submission to the ULI Global Awards for Excellence program.