A single-family house on De Haro Street in Potrero Hill is slated for demolition to make way for a curved, 40-foot-tall building holding a primary residence and a compact studio apartment. The property at 768 De Haro Street last changed hands in April for $2 million, and now its new owners want to rebuild from the ground up with a design that stands out from its neighbors’ flatter facades.
According to San Francisco YIMBY, the permit application seeks to replace the existing single-family house with a primary residence and studio apartment. The property owners are listed as two local individuals, per the same filing. The roughly 0.06-acre lot sits near the corner of De Haro Street and 20th Street, a block from the San Francisco International High School campus and three blocks from Jackson Park.
What’s Actually Being Built
The planned structure would rise roughly 40 feet and yield around 3,800 square feet of space, the outlet’s report notes. It includes a single-car garage, but the studio apartment, which occupies just half of the first floor, would come with no dedicated parking space and no in-unit laundry. The primary residence gets the lion’s share of amenities: a first-floor media room, three bedrooms on the second floor, dining and living rooms on the third floor, and access to a rooftop deck fitted with tempered glass guardrails.
Stanley Saitowitz of Natoma Architects designed the building, which features a curved facade overlooking De Haro Street, grooved metal panels and aluminum-frame windows. It’s a striking departure for a block of mostly traditional Potrero Hill housing stock. No construction timeline has been shared yet, and construction alone is estimated to cost around $1.9 million — a figure that doesn’t include all development costs.
A Neighborhood Already in Flux
The De Haro Street project lands amid bigger changes already underway nearby. Just up the street, a planned affordable housing development at 300 De Haro Street would rise 11 stories with 425 studio units, according to NBC Bay Area. That project was initially planned as mixed-income housing but will now be entirely affordable, with eligibility requiring annual incomes between $41,000 and $95,000, or 30% to 70% of the area median income. Amenities there are expected to include a fitness center, co-working space, green space and retail, with completion targeted for summer 2027…