Martin Building Company

Martin Building Company is a San Francisco real estate developer focused on multifamily and mixed-use housing in the city, working in a market where very few residential high-rises have moved to construction in recent years. The firm is developing ElevenEleven Residences at 1101 to 1123 Sutter Street in Lower Nob Hill, a 22-story, 235-foot tower holding 303 units, 101 of them below market rate, with ground-floor retail, a child care center and landscaped amenity terraces on the seventh and twenty-first floors. Nibbi Brothers is the general contractor. Financing draws on the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust and HUD mortgage insurance, a structure carrying an all-trades union labor requirement.

Behind Martin Building Company’s residential work is a 35-year track record in San Francisco. Patrick McNerney founded the firm in 1989 and has since developed more than 30 historically significant buildings in the city, with a design-build practice that leans toward neighborhood-oriented urban infill and adaptive reuse. Its portfolio spans multifamily and single-family residential, historic renovations, commercial offices, restaurants and retail, and community spaces. Among its signature projects is Mint Plaza, the first voluntary downtown street-to-plaza conversion completed by a developer in San Francisco, along with mixed-use developments such as Potrero Launch and Arc Light Company. The company works exclusively in San Francisco, where infill and preservation expertise carry weight.