What Starts on Divisadero on 19 October
San Francisco Public Works has issued street and sidewalk closure permits for the corner of Divisadero Street and Oak Street, with a start date of 19 October 2026. Hoodline reports the permits cover the site of a planned eight-story apartment building. The corner has stood vacant since the car wash on the parcel closed in 2019. Hoodline attributes the car wash operating history, from 1958 under owners Roy and Patricia Shimek, to The Real Deal.
Development responsibility has moved. Greystar, a South Carolina company, has taken over from 4Terra Investments and supplies the institutional financing for the build, per SFist. 4Terra completed most of the design and permitting work. The unit count has travelled from 184 to 203.
The 203 Homes and the 24 Parking Spaces
The building runs eight stories and 85 feet, designed by BDE Architecture. The yield is about 194,280 square feet: 109,800 square feet of housing, 1,850 square feet of retail, and 8,480 square feet for a 24-car garage. The homes are 121 one-bedrooms and 82 two-bedrooms, with four ground-floor units facing Divisadero Street, per SF YIMBY. A five-story annex, a podium-top courtyard and a rooftop terrace complete the design.
The garage holds 24 cars. Twenty-four spaces serve 203 homes, or 11.8 percent of the units. A hotel rota that expects staff to drive should plan for the shortfall. Staff parking near this corner tightens for the length of the build.
Getting Staff to a Shift on Divisadero
Divisadero Street carries the 24 Divisadero, a Muni trolleybus line. Muni runs the route 24 hours a day, with shorter Owl trips overnight as part of the All Nighter network. A roster here can place early and late shifts on a bus that never stops running.
Four hotels sit inside a kilometre of the corner, by straight-line measurement from a bounded sweep read on 16 October 2026: the Metro Hotel at 319 Divisadero Street at 92 metres, the Casa Loma Hotel at 610 Fillmore Street at 604 metres, The Grove Inn at 890 Grove Street at 676 metres, and the Chateau Tivoli at 1057 Steiner Street at 721 metres. The sweep publishes no room counts, so read those distances as proximity.
The Wiggle Crossing at Oak and Fell
The corner sits on The Wiggle, the one-mile bicycle route from Market Street to Golden Gate Park. The route rises 120 feet, with average grades of 3 percent and no section steeper than 6 percent. Fell Street and Oak Street gained dedicated bikeways from 2012. Cycling volume through that intersection is the reason the closure permits matter to a shift change.
Hiring From the Same Labour Pool
The parcel sits two blocks from the Panhandle, per SF YIMBY. The Divisadero Farmers' Market runs year-round on Sundays in the California DMV parking lot at 1377 Fell Street. That market puts a pedestrian load on the corridor one morning a week, and it calls for a staffing shape different from a weekday shift.
The construction is the multi-year event. A full demolition, eight stories and a five-story annex hold a general contractor's workforce on site for years. A hotel on this corridor recruits from the same Lower Haight and Western Addition labour pool.
The Rent Line a Roster Should Read
Twenty of the 203 homes are set aside for households earning 55 percent of the area median income, with estimated monthly rents near $1,400 for a one-bedroom and near $1,545 for a two-bedroom, per The San Francisco Standard. No corridor wage series is published for this stretch of Divisadero.
What the Record Does Not Date
No completion date is published. No construction duration is published. The only dated start on the record is the 19 October 2026 staging of site closures. The parcel has been through a 2019 approval that was abandoned in 2022, a nonprofit purchase contract in late 2022 that collapsed in early 2023, and two subsequent sponsors. Hoodline reports the 2019 approval as 186 units, and SF YIMBY reported the initial scheme at 184 units. Both figures stay attributed to their publisher.
The Next Budget Cycle
Three lines follow. Shift scheduling: the 24 Divisadero runs all night, so a roster can place staff on a bus for early and late shifts. Parking: 24 spaces serve 203 homes, so staff parking tightens for the length of the build. Recruitment: the site draws from the corridor's own labour pool for years.
San Francisco Travel's 26 August 2026 forecast projects 70.7 percent citywide occupancy at an average daily rate of $266.16 for 2026. The same forecast projects 2027 at 72.1 percent and $271.43. That forecast measures hotel demand, and it is the published baseline a budget on this corridor can be written against.