50+ units of housing to replace Cala @ Haight & Stanyan

An article in the Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council's March newsletter discusses the long rumored departure of Cala Foods, which will be replaced by a "mixed use project, containing 25,000 square feet of retail, three below ground levels of parking, and three floors of housing with 50 or so units."

As I mentioned in an earlier post this week, the loss of Cala is bittersweet, leaving neighbors without a full-service market (unless it is replaced by another grocery store), but many neighbors have complained of poor inventory, loitering customers from nearby Haight Street, and a generally dirty appearance.

More housing = good, so let's just hope they can find a suitable grocery for the immediate neighborhood (in addition to the small Real Foods up the hill at Stanyan & Parnassus).