The days may be numbered for yet another SoMa gas station, as real-estate developer Trumark Urban has submitted a Preliminary Project Assessment application to the Planning Department to demolish the Shell gas station at 598 Bryant St. In its place, the developer hopes to construct a nine-story, 49,980-square-foot mixed-use office building with 3,300 square feet of ground-floor retail space.

The above rendering of the $30 million development shows floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Bryant Street on every floor. Another planned perk: a 4,000-square-foot “amenity deck” wrapped around the exterior of the seventh-floor office.

The proposed development would also feature a 1,000-square-foot POPOS on the ground floor, 15 bicycle parking spaces, 11 vehicle parking spaces, and shower facilities. The initial plans also aim to satisfy a laundry list of requirements set by the still-under-development Central SoMa Plan.

The San Francisco Business Times notes that this is Trumark Urban’s first Bay Area office project. Given that the building is just under 50,000 square feet, it will not be subject to Prop M limits on the number of office projects that can be approved each year. 

However, fears of insufficient gas and service stations in the South of Market corridor could have the potential to hold the project up. In the past year or so, current and former gas stations at Sixth and Harrison, Fifth and Folsom, First and Harrison, and Mission and South Van Ness have all been approved or considered for large developments. The trend of stations shuttering for development has been consistent citywide, but with 350,000 registered cars in SF proper, it may not be able to continue unabated. 

Socketsite reported that the lease on the Shell station at Fifth and Folsom ends in February 2017, and the site's western parcel, zoned for development up to 85 feet high, hit the market for $2 million at the end of June.