The Mission may soon have another grocery store to call its own. The owners of Haight Street Market are planning to open “Gus’s Community Market” in an industrial space on the corner of 17th and Harrison.

SocketSite reports:

As proposed, the 10,000 square-foot market “and accessory restaurant” would be roughly half the size of a smallish Whole Foods, and twenty (20) of the building’s existing off-street parking spaces would be dedicated to the store.

Currently zoned for Production, Distribution, and Repair (PDR) rather retailing, San Francisco’s Planning Commission will need to approve a requested change in use for the grocery to open, the hearing for which has been scheduled for January 15.

Just a few short blocks away from Rainbow Grocery, Whole Foods, Safeway, and Foods Co, the decision to drop another grocery store in an area already dense with them seems puzzling—perhaps even more so when one considers that the DeLano’s on South Van Ness has remained empty since late 2010.

But with an outside counter (depicted below), Gus’s Community Market may at the very least become a favorite hangout spot for people grabbing a bite at the taco truck parked semi-permanently across the street.

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