The new owners of 280 7th St., formerly home to Club Hide, are preparing plans to raze the long-abandoned two-story nightclub, located right next door to Sightglass Coffee, in favor of a six-story, 65-foot-tall residential complex.
Plans submitted to the city earlier this month by Workshop1, on behalf of Dragonfly Investments Group, propose demolishing the 6,250-square-foot warehouse to construct one 65-foot building with 23 residential units and 3,668 square feet of ground-floor retail fronting Seventh Street.
According to the initial project description, the complex will include a mix of two-bedroom, one-bath units and two-bedroom, two-bath units. On average, the units will be 801 square feet. Three units, or 12 percent, would be set aside as affordable, in compliance with the city's minimum requirements.
Entrances to the building's residential lobby and 6,250-square-foot basement parking garage would be located on Langton Street. The garage is being proposed to accommodate 14 vehicles and 24 bicycles.Other amenities for residents include a 975 square-foot courtyard on the second floor and a 1,400-square-foot terrace on the sixth floor. One unit in the building will enjoy a 250-square-foot private deck.
Drawings of the Seventh and Langton street facades. (Image: Workshop1)
While renderings aren't yet available, the approved plans for 988 Harrison St., a long-abandoned gas station at Sixth and Harrison, offer a taste of Workshop1's work.
280 Seventh St. has stood empty since Club Hide closed in 2007. Before Club Hide, it was home to Rawhide II, a gay country-western bar that later transformed into a nightclub. While photos of the former nightclubs are hard to come by, the scenes of "Stetson Bar" in the 1992 crime-thriller Basic Instinct were filmed there.
Despite having been vacant for nearly a decade, at least one set of plans was once in the works to revive Club Hide. Back in 2011, Grub Street reported that the owner of The Café in the Castro, Tom Hutachinda, purchased the warehouse, drawing up plans for a 150-seat restaurant with a 49-seat rooftop patio and a ground-floor bar and entertainment space.
While the reason Hutachinda abandoned the plans and later sold the warehouse is unconfirmed, Grub Street suggested that zoning could have been the major hangup. Despite the space's history as an entertainment venue, the area was not zoned for new entertainment at the time of the proposal.
Seventh and Folsom isn't the only block that's received fresh development plans this month. Just a few blocks away at Folsom and Russ, restaurants Deli Board and Fondue Cowboy and BDSM club Alchemy may soon be razed for 46 new residential units.
Stay tuned for more updates on these and other development proposals in the pipeline across the neighborhood.
