{"id":275858,"date":"2026-04-19T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275858\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:38:18","slug":"will-they-ever-finish-building-4805-mission-st-in-sfs-excelsior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275858\/","title":{"rendered":"Will they ever finish building 4805 Mission St. in SF’s Excelsior?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It made perfect sense when, in 2015, a construction company named Shangri-La Builder Inc.<\/a> bought the dilapidated parking lot at 4805 Mission St. and began to build a five-story building \u2014\u00a0apartments and ground-floor retail \u2014 on the site. <\/p>\n

The spot is a prime location in the Excelsior, right on the corner of Russia Avenue and Mission, less than a 10-minute walk away from grocery stores, restaurants and the neighborhood library.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What makes less sense is why, 4805 Mission still isn\u2019t finished, more than a decade later.<\/p>\n

The building looks tantalizingly close to completion. Its apartments and retail space appear ready to move into, at least from the outside. It has windows, balconies and what seems to be a roof deck with panoramic views of the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s had all of this since at least 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In fact, 4805 Mission has declined since then. The windows on the ground-floor retail space, once covered with paper, are now barricaded behind a wall of plywood that has been covered in layers of graffiti and peeling advertisements. Places where the building has been tagged have been covered with mismatched paint, giving it a patchwork appearance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Neighbors call it<\/a> an eyesore. Some have been filing complaints for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c4805 Mission Street has been a blighted property for at least 10 years,\u201d one resident wrote<\/a> to the city in 2025. \u201cThe Excelsior neighborhood is tired of being a dumping ground for property owners who cause harm to our community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Recent developments indicate its long-overdue completion may yet be on the way. San Francisco\u2019s Department of Public Works last month approved a Street Improvement Permit<\/a> \u2013 worth $3,614 \u2014 authorizing Shamrock Engineering Concrete, a San Francisco-based construction company contracted by Shangri-La Builder Inc., a Dublin-based construction company in the East Bay, to reconstruct the sidewalk, curb, gutter, and curb ramps along the building, and to cut two new vehicle entrances into the curb, a small but necessary step to bring the building into ADA compliance.<\/p>\n

\"ModernThe building at 4805 Mission St. remains vacant on Feb. 20, 2026. Photo by Mariana Garcia.<\/p>\n

District 11 supervisor Chyanne Chen, whose district includes the Excelsior, said that her office is aware of the situation at 4508 Mission and has been \u201cactively tracking this project.\u201d \u201cWe all want to see the building completed with new homes, local businesses and a safe, welcoming street level,\u201d said Chen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the blight of 4805 Mission long predates Chen, who only took office<\/a> in January 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Liming Liu, CEO of Shangri-La Builder Inc.<\/a>, did not respond to a request for comment. Former District 11 supervisors Ahsha Safa\u00ed and John Avalos, who both represented the neighborhood during the decade-plus of construction, also have not replied.\u00a0<\/p>\n

City records show a long, slow attempt to pressure Shangri-La into completing construction. Since July 2015, 4805 Mission has received 26 complaints to the Department of Building Inspection, describing the building as\u00a0 \u201ca source of chronic blight<\/a>\u201d and a \u201chealth hazard<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

These complaints resulted in six hearings and seven orders of abatement \u2014 a legal directive that can be issued by the Department of Building Inspection or other city agencies when building or housing violations remain unresolved after a notice of violation was issued. <\/p>\n

Those orders of abatement, which date back to July 2022, describe 4805 Mission as \u201can unsafe building or a public nuisance.\u201d<\/p>\n

At none of the hearings was the owner, or a representative of the owner, present.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Shangri-La Builder Inc. was ordered to register 4805 Mission as a vacant or abandoned commercial storefront and building for a fee of $711, according to its first valid order of abatement in July 2022<\/a>, facing a penalty of nearly $2,844 if ignored. That registration fee went up<\/a> to $818 and penalty fee hiked up<\/a> to $3,272 in 2023. It remains unknown if Liu or anyone at Shangri-La Builder Inc. ever paid the fees.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

After 2023, two more hearings were held about 4805 Mission \u2014\u00a0in December 2025<\/a> and February 2026<\/a>. As was the case earlier, both hearings were unattended by Liu or any other representatives at Shangri-La Builder Inc. On Feb. 10, 2026, the building department cited<\/a> the building as an \u201cunsafe structure\u201d with an outstanding penalty of $6,764.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AThe building at 4805 Mission St. stood vacant in February 2021. Screenshot from Google Maps. <\/p>\n

\u2018I just don\u2019t understand how it could sit that long\u2019<\/p>\n

To neighbors of 4805 Mission, the building has become a symbol of neglect the neighborhood feels by the city.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Patricia Barraza, who has lived in the Excelsior since 1979, has watched the building rise, stall, and sit unfinished for years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just been an eyesore,\u201d said Barraza. She\u2019s taken matters into her own hands, and tried to contact Shangri-La Builder Inc. on her own, and gotten no response. \u201cIt seems really annoying, at least for those of us that live there and have to pass by every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t understand how it could sit that long,\u201d said Julie Clima who has had a front-row seat to the stalled construction as the manager of\u00a0 the Italian American Social Club, which sits directly across Russian Avenue from the building. She has never seen the owner of the building on site, she said. \u201cIt\u2019s just crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tom Murphy, who oversees the Jerry Day festival<\/a> in McLaren Park and owns property in the area, agreed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an absolute eyesore,\u201d said Murphy, who said he watched the building fester for years. \u201cAnd it\u2019s not fair to all the businesses around there and all the other property owners around there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you put this on any other corridor,\u201d he said. \u201cit would not have been overlooked for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It made perfect sense when, in 2015, a construction company named Shangri-La Builder Inc. bought the dilapidated parking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[43500,1011,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-275858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-excelsior","tag-housing","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275858","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=275858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}