Stonestown Framework Plan

Located at the heart of San Francisco’s western neighborhoods, Stonestown Galleria is a successful retail center serving as a community anchor for decades. The framework plan is crafted to maintain the mall while shifting from the post-war suburban mall model to an integrated neighborhood model that unlocks 30 acres of underutilized surface parking for people to live, work and gather.

This site holds a unique opportunity in the city to deliver substantial new housing. The framework plan delivers up to 3,500 new housing units (up to 20% affordable at full build-out), a retail street with new shops and commercial spaces, neighborhood amenities, and childcare and senior center facilities – all connected through a network of 6 acres of parks and safe, complete streets.

Surrounded on all sides by surface parking and steep grade change, the site today is experienced as a car-dominant landscape separated from its neighbors. The framework plan shifts this experience, building new multi-modal connections to its surrounding neighbors. The project also builds on the energy seen inside the mall by transforming 20th Avenue — currently a circulator for parking — into a new retail-lined main street with bicycle and pedestrian-first connections to transit. A network of new open spaces and the retail spine along 20th Avenue anchor the mall entries and provide genuine points of convergence for new housing and activity.

The mall is a key component of the project, and the site is strategically phased to continue mall operations while new developments are realized incrementally.