Groundbreaking on 28 July 2026
Mayor Daniel Lurie broke ground on the Artists Hub on Market at 1687 Market Street on 28 July 2026. The Mayor’s Office release of that date puts the investment at $140 million.
The release places the site in the historic Hub neighborhood, at the crossroads of Hayes Valley, Civic Center, the Mission District and the Castro.
Mercy Housing and Randall Kline of Artists Hub on Market are joint sponsors. SF YIMBY reported the pairing on 10 August 2026 and describes Artists Hub on Market as a registered non-profit and co-developer on the filing. The release names the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development and the Arts Commission as partner agencies.
Ninety-Four Homes for Arts Workers
The release puts the programme at 94 affordable homes for artists, arts workers, arts administrators, production-related arts and entertainment workers, and their families. The homes run as studios, one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms for households earning up to 80 percent of San Francisco Area Median Income.
The current plan publishes no unit mix. The superseded application carried 26 studios, 51 one-bedrooms and 25 two-bedrooms across 102 homes.
The Arts Programme and the Unpublished Capacity
The release lists music and dance rehearsal and practice studios, a black box theater, and programmatic and office space for Artists Hub on Market. The amenity list adds a community room, a landscaped roof deck, secured bicycle parking, neighborhood-serving amenities and on-site resident services.
The current record assigns no floor to those spaces and publishes no capacity for the theater or the studios. The superseded application put a cafe and a black box theater at street level. SF YIMBY’s August report carries a neighborhood cafe at the corner of Market and Gough and publishes no seat count for it.
The Capital and the Gift Behind It
The release states a $140 million investment. The project was made possible in significant part through a $100 million private philanthropic gift. The two figures are not additive, and no source publishes a remainder, a funding gap or a public subsidy amount.
SF YIMBY reports the donation arrived in late 2024 and was later revealed as coming from Mary Miner, a philanthropist and widow of Oracle co-founder Robert Miner.
Assembly Bill 2011 and the Approval Path
The application invoked Assembly Bill 2011 to streamline an affordable housing complex on a commercially zoned parcel, alongside Senate Bill 330 and the State Density Bonus law, per SF YIMBY. Final approval came in mid-March 2025. Demolition permits were filed in July 2025 and issued by the city in November. Crews started work in early February 2026.
The 1925 McRoskey Factory
The 1925 Edward McRoskey Mattress Factory came down in that work. Fabre & Hildebrand designed the building, according to a historic review by Page & Turnbull. Brothers Edward and Leonard McRoskey founded the mattress company in 1899, and the family still operates the building under the name McRoskey Airflex Mattress Company.
The City Housing Moves Around the Project
The release places the groundbreaking against three city actions. They are legislation signed the week before to unlock construction of new homes at all income levels, the expansion of the city’s Housing Trust Fund headed to the ballot in November, and the July expansion of subsidized childcare under the Family Opportunity Agenda. The release also notes that Vanderbilt University will open an arts college in San Francisco in Fall 2027.
Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman said he was proud “that we were able to pass legislation to support this type of housing.”
The Plan Vintages and the Cost Record
The current plan runs 15 stories at 151 feet with 104,440 square feet of building area, split into about 80,000 square feet of housing and 19,330 square feet for arts activities, with 110 bicycle spaces, per SF YIMBY. The earlier version ran 17 stories at 182 feet with roughly 124,800 square feet and 102 homes. Its application estimated construction at approximately $74.5 million, excluding all development costs.
No current source publishes a construction cost for the 94-home plan.
Completion in 2028
The release estimates completion in 2028. SF YIMBY reports completion expected by Spring 2028. Both windows carry the attribution of their publisher, and neither is a firm date.