What sits on the two blocks
Four single-storey sheds occupy 17.1 acres at 749 Toland Street and 2000 McKinnon Avenue. The city counts about 448,000 square feet of production, distribution and repair space in them.
The sheds still trade. Permits issued in 2021 cover illuminated Amazon signs on buildings 417 and 418. Soft-demolition permits in 2020 and 2022 stripped interior partitions, doors and plumbing from all four buildings.
The replacement programme
The Board of Supervisors gave unanimous approval in December 2025 to two three-storey buildings of 1,646,000 gross square feet. The sponsor's project summary divides the space into 1,166,800 square feet of flexible PDR floor, 20,000 to 35,000 square feet of ground-floor maker space and 8,400 square feet of street-level retail. A further 984,800 square feet carries PDR support and circulation, and an active roof of 514,000 square feet carries a solar array.
The city's presentation lists warehouse, distribution, manufacturing and parcel delivery as intended uses. Hotel operations buy from that set every week. Linen plants, food-service distributors, maintenance contractors and trade suppliers all need floor area within delivery range of the rooms they serve.
The site sits 5.1 km from Union Square and 4.5 km from Moscone West in a straight line. Both figures come from geocoded points on 17 October 2026.
The capacity change
The project removes about 448,000 square feet and returns 1,166,800 square feet of flexible PDR floor on the same two blocks. The gain is 718,800 square feet. Two phases carry it, one building in each.
What the overlay allows
A second ordinance creates the San Francisco Gateway Special Use District over the site. The underlying PDR-2 zoning and its height and bulk limits stay in force.
The overlay permits parking garages and parcel delivery up to 225,000 square feet of occupied floor area. Parcel delivery beyond that figure needs a conditional use. Retail sales and service are allowed to 8,500 square feet, against the 8,400 the sponsor plans.
The permit file is thin
No demolition permit appears on either parcel. The Department of Building Inspection record carries 25 permits on block 5284A, lot 008 and 27 on block 5287, lot 002. Every one is an alteration, a sign or a soft demolition. The most recent is dated 23 June 2025, and no permit dated in 2026 appears on either parcel as of 17 October 2026.
Environmental review ran under case 2015-012491ENV. The Planning Commission certified the report and approved the project six to zero on 25 September 2025, and the Board of Supervisors followed in December.
No construction start date appears in the city record or in the sponsor's published project summary.
What a buyer does with an unbuilt approval
Treat the 1.6 million square feet as a future option. A linen contract signed today rests on capacity that exists on paper.
Ask three questions of a Bayview supplier. Where does the work run during demolition? What rent applies when the new floor delivers? Who signs a delivery guarantee?
Add the street question. McKinnon and Kirkwood avenues and Rankin and Selby streets sit in the public network and remain unaccepted for city maintenance. The developer rebuilds eight blocks to city standard and offers them for acceptance. A delivery route over those blocks changes twice, at construction and at acceptance.
Watch the permit record. A demolition filing on block 5284A or block 5287 puts a date on the file.
The community package
The development agreement runs 20 years. It carries $8 million in direct community contributions and $11 million in Market Zone improvements. The city expects about $16 million in one-time development impact fees and about $7 million a year in net new general fund revenue at buildout.
Employment runs to about 795 construction jobs a year and about 1,980 permanent on-site jobs on the city's figures. The sponsor summary rounds those to 800 and 2,000.