Presidio East Mason Warehouses

Placemaking at the Presidio’s Edge

client

The Presidio Trust
location

San Francisco, CA
size

89,500 SF
sustainability

LEED Silver

TEF led the adaptive reuse of seven circa-1919 wood-framed warehouse buildings on Presidio Trust land, transforming 89,000 square feet into flexible, tenant-ready space. The rehabilitation preserved the buildings’ historic character in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Historic Preservation.

Tall interior windows overlooking an exterior terrace, cyclists, landscaping, and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Long covered wooden walkway along a white historic building, with exposed braces, windows, and a metal railing.

Connecting to Nature and the Bay

Though somewhat remote from the Main Post, the East Mason Warehouses benefit from a growing set of nearby destinations, including the Presidio Tunnel Tops, Quartermaster Reach Marsh, and Tennessee Hollow Trail, along with easy access to Crissy Field, the marina, and the Golden Gate Bridge. TEF leveraged the site’s industrial character and added raised outdoor use areas to extend tenant activity beyond the buildings. The result is a site offering spatial flexibility for an evolving workplace future, access to nature and the outdoors, and one-of-a-kind, single-story structures with deep history and meaning.

Aerial view of a long historic building beside parkland and the San Francisco Bay, with the Golden Gate Bridge and Marin Headlands in the distance.

Aerial view of a long white historic building with red and white roofs, bordered by a roadway, parking lots, elevated traffic lanes, and surrounding Presidio buildings.

Expanding Access, Streamlining Circulation

TEF’s rehabilitation strategy for the East Mason Warehouses focused on developing cohesive solutions that addressed building access and pedestrian circulation, utilities distribution, and site amenities. The Site Development Plan identified and enhanced accessible, welcoming entries to the buildings from the adjacent parking lot, and addressed pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular circulation and safety along East Mason Street.

Renovated open interior with exposed timber framing, wood floors, white board-and-batten walls, a sliding barn door, and large glass doors overlooking trees and lawn.

Long, open interior with restored wood floors, exposed timber trusses, white columns, suspended linear lights, and visible mechanical ductwork.

Wooden terrace outside a white historic building, with large glass doors opening to the interior and a covered walkway extending alongside the road.

Powering a Sustainable Future

TEF’s design made East Mason Warehouses the Presidio’s first all-electric project, eliminating natural gas heat in favor of a variable refrigerant flow heat pump system that provides both heating and cooling. The project also became one of San Francisco’s largest electric vehicle charging sites, with 22 chargers installed on-site.