Sunnydale Community Center

The Sunnydale Community Center in San Francisco, California, will serve residents of Sunnydale, the city’s largest public housing site, as well as residents of all ages in the surrounding Visitacion Valley neighborhood. The community center is a key part of the resident-centered Sunnydale HOPE SF transformation plan currently being completed by Mercy Housing California and Related California. The center includes facilities for Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco and Wu Yee Children’s Services, greatly expanding the capacity of both of these organizations to provide top-tier childcare and programming for youth in the neighborhood.

Kalesnikoff supplied the cross-laminated timber (CLT) for the decking floors and roof structure, and the glue-laminated columns and beams throughout. The all-mass-timber community center includes a teaching kitchen, study space with community broadband, a recording studio, spaces for a full slate of social events, workshops, and classes, and a living room for neighbors to meet and connect.