San Francisco city officials have been moving to cut red tape to facilitate office-to-residential conversions in the city as they seek to replace empty offices with new housing and other uses.
A project announced last week in the Fillmore District is expected to bring a new housing to an area that has seen little housing development in recent years, but the property it will replace isn't obsolete: it's the largest grocery in the neighborhood.
Safeway is selling its store in the Fillmore District to San Francisco-based developer Align Real Estate, with plans to shutter the store in March so Align can build a housing and retail development on the nearly four-acre site that encompasses the grocery and its parking lot.
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