San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Endorsement

Prado Group would like to express its appreciation to the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition (SFBC) for its endorsement of the Whole Foods/2001 Market development. Prado successfully collaborated with SFBC to produce a template for bike parking. Go to Vision – Bike Parking on this website.

San Francisco Planning + Urban Research (SPUR) Endorsement

Prado Group would like to express its appreciation to SPUR’s Project Review Committee for endorsing our project in early February, 2010.

San Francisco Architectural Heritage Endorsement

Thank you to San Francisco Architectural Heritage for its letter of support for our project. Prado Group would like to express its appreciation to the members of the Issues Committee who reviewed the 2001 Market project at their meeting on November 17th, 2009.

Buena Vista Neighborhood Association Endorsement

Prado Group would like to thank the steering committee at the Buena Vista Neighborhood for endorsing our project.

Castro Area Planning + Action (CAPA) Endorsement

Prado Group would like to thank the Board of Castro Area Planning + Action for endorsing our project.

Thank you to the Merchants of Upper Market & Castro for its vote & endorsement!

Prado Group would like to express its appreciation to the Merchants of Upper Market & Castro (MUMC) for its vote and endorsement of the Whole Foods/2001 Market development at the MUMC general meeting on June 4, 2009.

San Francisco Housing Action Coalition Endorsement

Prado Group would like to sincerely thank the San Francisco Housing Action Coalition (SFHAC) for endorsing our project in August, 2009. We  appreciate the time taken by SFHAC’s Endorsement Committee to review our 2001 Market project.

Where we are today

Over the past 18 months we presented the changes to our design plan for 2001 Market to various neighborhood associations. We have received valuable input from each of the groups and we are focused on improving the design based on community feedback. We appreciate your interest in our project and look forward to presenting the project to the Planning Commission in September of 2010. Please refer back to this site for regular updates and details regarding endorsement from neighborhood groups and advocacy organizations.

Where we have been

Castro Area Planning + Action: November 2008, March, 2009, July 2009
Duboce Triangle Neighborhood Association: December 2008, March 2009, May 2009, July 2009, September 2009, June 2010, July 2010, August 2010
Eureka Valley Neighborhood Association: November 2008, April 2009, July 2009, November 2009, April 2010
Hayes Valley Neighborhood Association: January 2009, March 2009, July 2009, October 2009, June 2010
Livable City: November 2009
Merchants of Upper Market & Castro: December 2008, June 2009
Mission Dolores Neighborhood Association: November 2008, March 2009, July 2009, November 2009, July 2010
San Francisco Heritage Issues Committee: April 2009, November 2009
San Francisco Housing Action Coalition:June 2009
2027 HOA: November 2007, September 2008, March 2009, August 2009, November 2009, January 2010
San Francisco Bicycle Coalition: November 2009, April 2010
San Francisco Planning + Urban Research (SPUR): January 2009
The Charles M. Campus of the CENTER “LGBT Community Center”: March 2009, October 2009

The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) selects 2001 Market – June 2010

“The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES), a partnership of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the United States Botanic Garden, has selected 175 pilot projects to test a national rating system for sustainable landscape design, construction and maintenance. Making the list is a new Whole Foods store in San Francisco, proposed for the corner of Market and Dolores streets, along with a half-dozen other projects in the Bay Area and a total of twenty-one across California.

The proposed Whole Foods store would replace the currently vacant S&C Ford auto dealership at 2001 Market Street with a 30,000 square foot Whole Foods Market on the ground floor and 82 residential condominiums above the store. The project team includes April Philips Design Works, The Prado Group, BAR Architecture, William McDonough + Partners. The Prado Group is working to get the project’s planning approvals and expects to go before the Planning Commission in September 2010. If successful, construction would start mid-2011, with the grocery store slated to open in 2012 and the residential units in mid-2012.

The SITES rating system is similar in intent to the LEED certification program administered by the U.S. Green Building Council in that it sets out to provide a measure of the sustainability of the built environment and create a minimal and optimum standard. LEED applies almost exclusively to buildings, however, SITES is designed to address site planning and landscape design – the space outside the building envelope. The SITES rating system includes 15 prerequisites and 51 different credits covering areas such as the initial site selection, water, soil, vegetation, materials, human health and well-being, construction and maintenance – adding up to a 250 point scale.

Besides the use of a previously developed, or brownfield, site, the proposed development at 2001 Market Street includes an edible garden element as well as other details that help to mitigate the effects of the multi-story, mixed-use project. (More details of the project, as well as those of the other 175 sites, are available at www.sustainablesites.org/pilot.”