1050 Van Ness: The Opal Hotel

The owners of the five-story Opal Hotel at Van Ness and Geary are working on plans to raze the two-story “Motel Opal” addition, which sits behind the hotel along Geary, and build a 13-story tower on the Van Ness Corridor lot, a lot which is zoned for development up to 130-feet in height.

1055 Geary, Motel Opal Site

The draft plan for the tower to rise at 1055 Geary, directly across the street from CMPC’s future Medical Office Building, includes up to 120 new residential units (a mix of 48 studios and 72 one-bedrooms) over a common area ground floor which would be shared with the hotel and a subterranean garage with 42 parking spaces for the hotel and none for the new residences.

Plans to convert the existing 165-room hotel into an 87-unit residential building had been explored back in 2003 but were never acted upon.  We’ll keep you posted and plugged-in as the latest plans evolve.

20 thoughts on “Van Ness Corridor Rising: Planning For Another Tower”
  1. Soon the City will no longer be able to support motel rooms with a hot tub right in the motel room, set into the shag carpet. Such a loss to our cultural heritage.

  2. The headline had me worried for a second. I thought the owners were proposing razing the 5 story hotel. Glad to see the interest in the lot behind is bubbling up…

    It’s great to see all of these structures / lots down Van Ness getting a very needed makeover—and maybe with all of the new residential, commercial, and the BRT Van Ness can be something of a destination [again].

    1. Thumbs up for adding more housing and commercial space (aka, building up) along Van Ness, but BRT will not be a draw as it will shave only a couple minutes off the time to travel from Market to North Point. Van Ness needs a subway.

  3. Hope the 5 story corner building gets some love too, especially from the ground floor with blue signage band.

  4. Yes get rid of the ugly 70’s Motel Opal. The 5 story is gorgeous, probably needs to be updated inside though. The bottom of the 5 story looks like Opal is there, on the bottom which is weird.

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