From funeral home to 22-story tower: Inside one of S.F.’s most ambitious housing projects

Demolition crews descended on the 1100 block of Sutter Street in San Francisco’s Lower Polk neighborhood last month, turning the former Halsted N. Gray-Carew & English Funeral Home into a heap of wood and rebar and bricks.

By the end of the week, all that could be seen from the street was what looked like a row of golden organ pipes.

It turned out that the pipes were decorative…

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