Resubmitted plans at 2740 McAllister in Lone Mountain propose a four-story building holding three rental units — the same three apartments the parcel has chased since 2015, now drawn by an engineering firm instead of Stanley Saitowitz.

On McAllister between Arguello Boulevard and Willard North, up the slope from USF, there is a gap where a house used to stand. The parcel at 2740 has been trying to turn into an apartment building for eleven years. This month it filed to try again.

The resubmitted plans, reported by San Francisco YIMBY (external source, opens in a new tab) on August 14, propose what this address has wanted all along: a four-story structure holding three rental units. The application names Min Qui as owner and sponsor, through the entity MQ Investment and Management Inc. — the same principal who has been behind the paperwork from the start.

What changed is the hand behind the drawings. The version filed in 2022 belonged to Stanley Saitowitz | Natoma Architects, a marquee local firm; it laid out three-bedroom units over two bicycle spaces and a single car space. The new submission hands the work to an engineering firm instead, and by the account of Hoodline's Emily Johnson the result is plainer — a roughly 39-foot building of about 5,300 square feet, with a top-floor setback and one large unit spanning the full third and fourth floors. The count holds at three; the architecture is now a box.

The record behind it runs long and doesn't quite line up. The single-family home was vacated in 2014, Johnson reports; a three-unit plan first went in during 2015, and a scaled-back two-unit version won approval in June 2020. When the house actually came down is fuzzier than the coverage suggests — as late as September 2022, YIMBY's own item still called the existing building standing, with demolition only proposed. It is gone now, and the ground is bare.

The blocks around it are pressured: seven eviction notices filed across Lone Mountain/USF in the last 90 days and 226 calls to 311 in the last week, per city data. No cost and no construction schedule have been attached to the current plans. Anyone walking past tomorrow sees what they have seen for years — an empty lot, and one more set of drawings for it.