H Mart at 3995 Alemany Blvd in SF's Ocean View neighborhood launches a grand-opening celebration June 19 after converting the former 24 Hour Fitness bay into a housewares wing, growing the store from 48,266 to roughly 74,775 square feet — a 55 percent expansion, two years after the company bought the whole shopping center for $37 million.

The 24 Hour Fitness that anchored the south end of OceanView Village Shopping Center has been gone long enough that it barely registers as an absence anymore. Starting June 19, that space — at 3995 Alemany Blvd in the Ingleside/Ocean View corner of San Francisco — will become the new housewares wing of the H Mart next door, and the Korean supermarket will be roughly 55 percent bigger than the one that opened there in April 2021.

The expansion adds approximately 26,500 square feet to H Mart's existing 48,266: a 1,184-square-foot addition to the ground-floor food court and a 21,800-square-foot basement buildout for dry goods and the new kitchen supply section. Final footprint comes in around 74,775 square feet. A permit filed June 12 — number 202606123074, listed as an alteration at 3995 Alemany, estimated at $75,000 — sits in the city's system as the most recent paperwork tied to the address. The SF Planning Commission signed off on the expansion in September 2023.

The shopping center itself changed hands on the way to getting here. H Mart paid $37 million for OceanView Village in May 2024, acquiring the roughly 100,000-square-foot complex through GSC RE San Francisco LLC from Broe Real Estate Group, which had held it since 2016. Owning the whole center removed a lease-negotiation layer from the expansion math.

The food court additions aren't waiting for the housewares wing to open. BHC Chicken — South Korean fried-chicken chain, "Better & Happier Choice" per the branding — soft-opened inside the H Mart food court in May. The Daeho restaurant within the complex is expanding as well. Kiddleton, a Japanese arcade company, is confirmed as a new tenant in the expanded wing; a hair salon and cosmetics shop are listed as sought but not yet confirmed as signed.

The June 19 grand-opening celebration runs through July 5 and includes discounts up to 50 percent off housewares, free tote bags for Smart Rewards members, and free chopsticks for social media followers.

Neil Hunt, president of the Merced Extension Triangle Neighborhood Association — the block-level organization that covers this stretch of Alemany — offered a clean summary to the Ingleside Light: "They've been a great partner in the neighborhood."

Come Thursday, anyone driving the stretch past City College will see what that partnership looks like at scale: a food court that already has a line for Korean fried chicken, and a basement stocked with woks and rice cookers where a treadmill bank used to sit.