Union vote crucial to Hastings plan for student housing in SF’s Tenderloin

UC Hastings College of the Law wants to expand the amount of housing it plans for its Tenderloin campus by more than 30% to 1,500 beds, but the proposal could be shot down by the membership of the labor union that owns the parcels the school hopes to build on. Hastings officials say they have reached a nonbinding agreement with the executive committee of Unite Here Local 2 to redevelop the union’s dilapidated five-building headquarters at 201-247 Golden Gate Ave. in San Francisco. The deal calls for the law school to sign a long-term ground lease with the union and then construct a 14-story residential tower above a new headquarters and hiring hall for the union. Local 2 Research Director Ian Lewis declined to comment on the deal, saying only that union leadership is “exploring a partnership” with Hastings, but that it will be up to the membership to decide if it goes forward. The proposed tower on the Local 2 property would be part of a student housing boom that is adding upward of 4,000 residential units across the city. They include projects by UCSF, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the California College of the Arts, the University… Read full this story

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