The San Francisco Planning Commission issued final approval for a revised 67-story tower at 10 South Van Ness Avenue on 11 September 2026. The approved scheme holds 921 apartments, ground-floor retail and a basement garage. An earlier approval, dated 30 December 2025, carried 1,019 apartments. Both versions hold the height at 820 feet.
The corner where South Van Ness Avenue meets Market Street keeps its transit doors and its walking lines. A group itinerary built this year moves through the block on foot and by shuttle.
The lot at Van Ness and Market
The property is a 1.1-acre triangular lot bound by South Van Ness Avenue, Market Street and 12th Street. The site sits a few blocks from City Hall. It overlooks the Van Ness bus rapid transit line and stands beside an underground Muni light rail station.
Coaches running between the Civic Center and the Mission cross this intersection. That line stays fixed. The height on the corner is the variable.
Two ways to arrive at one intersection
Van Ness station sits 123 metres from the site on a straight line. It is an underground Muni Metro station on the Market Street subway.
The Van Ness bus rapid transit stop sits at street level on the same corner. Surface stops at Van Ness Avenue and Market Street form the southern end of that corridor. Service began on 1 April 2022. The corridor runs 1.96 miles between Mission Street and Lombard Street in dedicated centre bus lanes, and it carries nine stations.
A group on the bus rapid transit line steps off at the doorstep of the site. A group on Muni Metro arrives one level below the street.
A walking loop for the construction period
No construction start is published. Douglas Sams of the San Francisco Business Times reported an estimate of 2027, and YIMBY quotes that estimate. The developer has stated work could begin as early as 2027. Cost and timeline remain unshared on the record.
1979 Mission Street sits 965 metres from the corner, measured straight-line. Crescent Heights transferred that parcel to the city in 2021 to satisfy off-site affordable housing requirements. The site carries a plan for 382 affordable apartments across three phases, and the first phase, La Maravilla, is under construction.
SVN West operates on the approved footprint today. The venue holds more than 100,000 square feet of open space, on a published capacity of 4,500.
Where a coach can set down
NPU Inc. filed a temporary-use application in May 2026 to run a community and private event space in the existing commercial structure for up to three years. The Planning Department does not list that application as approved.
The record carries no demolition date, no groundbreaking date and no venue closure date. The revised entitlements expire in August 2029.
A group operator can lay out the walking loop now and hold the shuttle decision until a demolition date appears. Crescent Heights and NPU Inc. had not replied to YIMBY's request for comment on current timelines for the event space or the tower.