{"id":193392,"date":"2026-02-25T18:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193392\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:12:19","slug":"demolition-permits-filed-for-263-lee-avenue-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/193392\/","title":{"rendered":"Demolition Permits Filed for 263 Lee Avenue, San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img width=\"777\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/263-Lee-Avenue-rendering-by-OpenScope-Studio-777x639.jpg\" class=\"u-photo wp-post-image\" alt=\"263 Lee Avenue, rendering by OpenScope Studio\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>263 Lee Avenue, rendering by OpenScope Studio<\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\"> By: <a rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" class=\"fn p-author h-card\" href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/author\/andrew\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Nelson<\/a> 4:30 am on February 25, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Demolition permits have been filed for a vacant single-story church at <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/263-lee-avenue\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">263 Lee Avenue<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/neighborhoods\/ingleside\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ingleside<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/neighborhoods\/san-francisco\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a>. Plans to replace the structure with a three-unit apartment complex were approved last May. Shahin Saneinejad is the property owner responsible for the application.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-foot-tall structure is expected to yield around 4,270 square feet, with two three-bedroom apartments and a ground-level two-bedroom apartment, zoned as an accessory dwelling unit. The residences are expected to be available for ownership. <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/openscope-studio\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenScope Studio<\/a> is responsible for the design.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-45197\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/263-Lee-Avenue-vertical-cross-section-illustration-by-OpenScope-Studio.jpg\" alt=\"263 Lee Avenue vertical cross-section, illustration by OpenScope Studio\" width=\"1500\" height=\"794\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">263 Lee Avenue vertical cross-section, illustration by OpenScope Studio<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/263-Lee-Avenue-in-center-image-via-Google-Street-View.jpg\" alt=\"263 Lee Avenue in center, image via Google Street View\" width=\"1500\" height=\"841\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">263 Lee Avenue in center, image via Google Street View<\/p>\n<p>In the Summer of 2019, the previous owner, Rescue Prayer Mission, listed the property for $1.5 million. According to city records, the property sold in 2020 for just $710,000, less than half of the original asking price. The church has been vacant since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Construction is expected to cost around $1.5 million, with the groundbreaking timeline not yet established. The team missed the previous estimated late-December 2025 start date from the project application filed in May 2025.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/hdjqhz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a> to YIMBY\u2019s daily e-mail<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/yimbygram\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow<\/a> YIMBYgram for real-time photo updates<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/YIMBYFB\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like<\/a>\u00a0YIMBY on Facebook<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yimbytweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Follow<\/a> YIMBY\u2019s Twitter for the latest in YIMBYnews<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/263-lee-avenue\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">263 Lee Avenue<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/sfyimby.com\/category\/openscope-studio\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenScope Studio<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"display: inline;\">. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"263 Lee Avenue, rendering by OpenScope Studio By: Andrew Nelson 4:30 am on February 25, 2026 Demolition permits&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-193392","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-san-francisco","9":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","10":"tag-san-francisco-news","11":"tag-sf","12":"tag-sf-headlines","13":"tag-sf-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}