Amazon is moving ahead with plans for a 710,000-square-foot parcel delivery facility in San Francisco, more than five years after it acquired the land. The San Francisco Planning Department will soon begin an environmental review of Amazon’s proposal at 900 7th Street in Showplace Square, according to the San Francisco Business Times.
The company purchased six acres from Recology, a waste management firm, for $202 million in December 2020. Recology closed its operations at that location the following year. In 2021, Amazon submitted formal plans to build an industrial structure on the site.
Regulatory challenges have delayed progress on the project. In 2022, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a moratorium on new parcel delivery facilities. This measure required projects like Amazon’s to obtain conditional-use authorization and undergo additional city scrutiny even if they met existing zoning requirements. The city made these changes permanent in 2024.
The proposed three-story building will include 17,700 square feet of office space, about 3,600 square feet of ground-floor retail, and parking for 510 employees. It will also provide 13,700 square feet of public open space. The location is near the California College of the Arts campus—which Vanderbilt University recently acquired as part of its expansion—and close to Mission Bay, where companies such as OpenAI, Nvidia, Visa and Coinbase have offices.
An Amazon spokesperson said: “When complete, the delivery station is expected to ‘provide better service and faster delivery to customers in San Francisco while reducing delivery mileage, since many packages are currently dispatched from outside the city.’” The company stated that it intends to collaborate with both city officials and community members during this phase.
A meeting organized by the San Francisco Planning Department to gather community input is scheduled for February 12.
