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The parking lot at 469 Stevenson St., near Sixth Street in SoMa, has had many lives: valet parking for the now-shuttered Nordstrom, the site of a proposed development that would have provided 494 units of housing if the city hadn’t rejected it in 2021 and, in the early months of the Lurie administration, a “triage center” that police hoped would serve as a one-stop shop for getting people into drug treatment, getting people bus tickets out of town or just getting them arrested more efficiently.
Most recently, it served as an urban “oasis,” staffed by workers from the nonprofit Urban Alchemy, where local residents could socialize around a cup of coffee…