Lot E2 targets a 2027 start
Brookfield Properties is targeting a 2027 groundbreaking on the first housing complex at Pier 70, a 350-unit apartment building on Lot E2. The date sits behind two approvals and behind a change to the site unit cap. The developer outlined that change at the Port Commission meeting of 14 July 2026.
The proposal raises the ceiling on the 28-acre Dogpatch site from 2,150 homes to 2,750, an increase of about 28 percent. Tim Bacon, Brookfield vice president of development, tied the yield to the financing. "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.
Phase one counts 700 homes
A 350-unit apartment building takes Lot E2. A 105-unit affordable building and two condominium buildings totalling 245 units complete the phase. The earlier phase one called for 575 units.
The affordable unit count holds under the denser plan and the share falls. The report puts the affordable share at about 30 percent of the development before the change and about 20 percent after it. It publishes no affordable unit total.
Two storeys and 70 units
Brookfield seeks two more storeys on multiple residential buildings, taking them from 70 feet to 90 feet. The report identifies 90 feet as the maximum allowed under a 2015 ballot initiative. The added height supports about 70 more units.
The office floor waits on the market
Brookfield also hopes to start construction in 2027 on a 300,000-square-foot office building. Bacon put one condition on the start: San Francisco office market momentum has to hold. The report names no office tenant, no month inside 2027 and no financing source for that building.
The city pipeline runs the same trade
Three other San Francisco projects carry unit increases. The Treasure Island team is working with city planners to add between 1,400 and 2,800 homes, lifting that total from 8,000 to as many as 10,800. At 655 Fourth St., the former Creamery site moved from 960 units to 1,148. One Oak moved from 460 to 541.
The city cut the affordable requirement on market-rate developers from 15 percent to 5 percent. Bacon said rents are up 30 percent year over year, and construction and operating costs have risen as fast or faster.
Two votes stand before the build
The plan needs approval from the Port Commission and from the Board of Supervisors. The report describes the outline as delivered in a closed executive session at the commission meeting of 14 July and records no vote on it. It publishes no hearing date for either body.
Building 12 already carries the site
Building 12, a football-field-sized former shipbuilding hall, holds 14 tenants while the ground-up work waits. Breadbelly and Standard Deviant are open seven days a week. The roster holds Sven Ceramics, custom sneaker designer Studio Duskus, paper artist Zai Divecha, metalsmith Emi Grannis, florist Marbled Mint and motorcycle dealer Scuderia.
Monograph and General Catalyst have signed. General Catalyst takes the whole third floor of Building 12 in 2027. Bay Padel is pouring concrete on a former Pier 70 parking lot for seven pickleball courts and four padel courts, beside three indoor courts already running. A Lawrence Ferlinghetti painting exhibition hangs in the hall. Mark DeVito, co-founder of Standard Deviant, said his team was "beyond thrilled to learn that there will be more housing coming our way."
No room count in this filing
The report names no lodging programme at Pier 70 and publishes no hotel room count. The pipeline it describes is residential and office. The 700 homes and the office floor would add weekday population and visitor traffic to a district that already pulls weekend trade through Building 12 and the courts.