A demolition permit filed June 3 for 870 McAllister Street confirms the first tangible step in Freedom West 2.0 — a Fillmore masterplan that will take down three 1970s-era cooperative apartment buildings and replace them with 115 units of affordable senior housing.

On the 800 block of McAllister Street in the Fillmore, three mid-rise apartment buildings that have been part of the Freedom West housing cooperative since the early 1970s are coming down. A demolition permit filed June 3 for 870 McAllister Street — permit 202606032412, estimated at $47,880 — is the most recent city record confirming a project whose outlines surfaced a few days earlier, when SF YIMBY reported on June 1 that demolition filings had been submitted for three existing structures at 860, 870, and 880 McAllister.

The buildings were constructed between 1973 and 1975 by developer Jack Baskin, designed by Krisel/Shapiro & Associates. All three are three-story structures, with a combined 108 residential units, sitting behind Bethel AME Church at the corner of Laguna Street — a block that has held roughly the same low-rise profile for fifty years.

What replaces them is the first phase of Freedom West 2.0, a masterplan backed by MacFarlane Partners and Avanath Capital Management. The new building, planned for 880 McAllister at Laguna, would rise seven stories — 73 feet — with roughly 104,500 square feet of total floor area. DLR Group is the architect of record; Hood Design Studio handles the landscape. All 115 units will be affordable, split between 80 one-bedrooms and 35 two-bedrooms, with 1,200 square feet of retail at street level and bicycle parking for 15. No vehicle parking is included.

The arithmetic is close: 108 units come down so that 115 go up, a net gain of seven on the primary footprint. The project team has described Freedom West 2.0 as a four-block effort, and the demolition of 860 McAllister is tied not to the current building but to clearing land for a future phase. What that later phase will deliver — and when — has not been announced.

No construction timeline has been established. The demolition permits are filed; the buildings are still standing. Someone walking the block today would pass the same modernist facades they have passed for decades, with nothing yet to mark what the permit record now anticipates.