Six hundred homes under a 2,750-unit ceiling
Brookfield Properties wants to raise the maximum unit count at Pier 70 from 2,150 homes to 2,750. That is about 600 extra homes, or 28 per cent. Tim Bacon, the company’s vice president of development, presented the revision in a closed executive session at the Port Commission meeting on 14 July 2026. The Port Commission and the Board of Supervisors both have to approve it.
The site covers 28 acres of Port land between 20th Street, Michigan Street, 22nd Street and the bay. The Port finished the streets, the utilities and the open space in the first phase, and the public walks them now.
Two storeys, seventy units
Height pays for part of the count. Brookfield wants two more storeys on several residential buildings, which takes them from 70 feet to 90 feet. The San Francisco Chronicle reported the plan on 15 July 2026 and gives 90 feet as the maximum allowed under a 2015 ballot initiative. Bacon said the extra height supports about 70 additional units.
“The additional 70 units makes it transition from something that is right on the edge of penciling to something that is starting to make a lot more sense,” he said of the financial equation.
Seven hundred homes in phase one
The first phase now totals 700 homes. A 105-unit affordable building and two condominium buildings of 245 units sit inside that figure, alongside a 350-unit apartment building planned for Lot E2. Brookfield expects to break ground on that apartment building in 2027. The earlier phase one figure was 575 homes.
The parts add up: 350 apartments at E2, 105 affordable homes, 245 condominiums.
Where the twenty percent lands
The unit count rises and the affordable share falls. Brookfield holds the affordable unit count at its current level, and affordability drops from about 30 per cent of the district to about 20 per cent.
J.R. Eppler, vice president of Potrero Boosters and a candidate for the District 10 seat on the Board of Supervisors, wants the development agreement changes in writing. He asked that the current minimum affordable count hold and that affordability arrive in each phase alongside the market-rate homes.
Donovan Lacy, vice president of the Dogpatch Neighborhood Association, said Brookfield has engaged both neighbourhood groups over the past four to six weeks. He said neighbours still need to see what the changes mean for affordable housing delivery.
A 300,000-square-foot office floor
Bacon said Brookfield hopes to start construction next year on a 300,000-square-foot office building if the city’s office market keeps gathering momentum. The project entered a down-market delay in June 2021 under the development agreement’s force majeure provision, per the Port’s June 2025 project update.
An office floor sets a weekday population. Three hundred thousand square feet brings arrivals through the morning and departures through the evening, five days a week.
Eleven outdoor courts beside Building 12
Bay Padel is pouring concrete on a former Pier 70 parking lot for seven more pickleball courts and four padel courts, per the Chronicle. Three indoor courts already operate inside Building 12.
A weekday shape for Dogpatch
Breadbelly and Standard Deviant trade seven days a week, per the Chronicle. Building 12 holds 14 tenants. Monograph and General Catalyst have signed deals there, and General Catalyst will take the whole third floor in 2027.
Housing adds a seven-day base. Office adds a five-day midday peak. Courts add weeknight evenings and weekend mornings. A hotel desk reading the district sees three demand bands on one 28-acre footprint.
The lodging line the plan leaves out
The Chronicle’s account of the revision names housing, office and recreation. It publishes no lodging programme and no room count for the district.
Two distances place the district inside reach of existing room stock. Building 12 sits 1,057 metres from Chase Center and 3,215 metres, or two miles, from Moscone Center, measured as straight lines between OpenStreetMap coordinates. A guest at either end reaches the market hall and the courts without a car.
The next step is a Port Commission and Board of Supervisors vote. The 600 homes and the office building both wait on it.