Prologis's 1.6-million-square-foot "San Francisco Gateway" won final city approval in December 2025, but ten months after the first vote the 17-acre Bayview site is unchanged — no demolition permit filed, Amazon's 749 Toland hub still running, and ground not projected to break until around 2028.

On the industrial flats where Toland Street meets McKinnon, the biggest development the Bayview has been promised in years is, for now, invisible. The San Francisco Planning Commission approved Prologis's "San Francisco Gateway" in late September 2025; the Board of Supervisors signed off in December, adopting the project's special-use district and development agreement (Board Files 250426 and 250427). Ten months past the first vote and seven past the last, the 17-acre site bounded by Kirkwood, Rankin, McKinnon and Toland looks exactly as it did before anyone voted.

That is by design. Gateway is two three-story PDR buildings — production, distribution and repair space — totaling roughly 1.6 million square feet and rising to 97 feet, pitched as the city's first multi-story warehouse. But Prologis has said it wants the project fully entitled before it recruits tenants, and only then breaks ground. Trade press covering the site projects demolition starting around 2028 and construction phased over roughly 31 months after that. The four WWII-era warehouses on the parcel, about 448,000 square feet of them, are still standing. Amazon still holds the delivery hub at 749 Toland Street slated to be razed, its lease there described in real-estate press this year as on shaky ground.

The permit record tells the same waiting-room story. No demolition permit has been filed. The recent building activity on the street runs to minor over-the-counter alterations, some of them valued at a single dollar. The paperwork that would actually change the corner has not been submitted.

What has started moving is the money and the obligation. The development agreement commits Prologis to about $19 million in community contributions and area capital improvements, roughly $50 million to rebuild streetscape across eight blocks — sidewalks, curb ramps, bike parking — plus around $16 million in impact fees and a requirement that construction use union labor. Trade coverage reported the first community-benefit payment coming due in May of this year, the obligations running ahead of any shovel.

Around the approved site, the ordinary business of the block continues on its own clock. In Bayview Hunters Point, 22 eviction notices have been filed with the Rent Board in the last 90 days — one of them, on July 24, on the 1600 block of McKinnon Avenue, one of Gateway's own boundary streets. The neighborhood logged 597 requests to 311 in the past week alone.

For now, a person walking Toland tomorrow would see what they saw a year ago: roll-up doors open, forklifts working, trucks pulling out of 749. The vote that will remake these 17 acres has already happened. The block just hasn't heard it yet.