Looking for a piece of vacant land available in San Francisco on which to build your dream home, and don't want to cough up the money for some decrepit shack that comes with it? Let me point you to this 5,000-square-foot parcel at 1208 Egbert Avenue in the Bayview, which, as Curbed tells us, is "just around the block from the Alice Griffith Housing Project and less than 900 feet from the intersection at Fitzgerald and Griffith that cops used to call 'the kill zone,' the one corner in the entire city that was the site of more murders than any other."

That corner would be Griffith and Fitzgerald, and it was so-called, at least back in the '90's, because it sat in a horseshoe of dead-end streets, in a largely desolate zone between housing projects and the edge-of-the-Bay area called Double Rock, just north of the former Candlestick Park.

The property showed up on Redfin this week with an even scarier image from MLS, taken apparently while lying down in the street, judging from the ominous angle. And it looks like the most recent owners built a garage, but stopped there.

The realtor says "Big changes [are] under way in the neighborhood," noting the upcoming Candlestick Point development, and "The U. S. Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) selected the HOPE SF transformation plan for Alice Griffith Public Housing and the surrounding Bayview neighborhood."

But, it appears the current owner wanted to build two houses here, and the application to do that with Planning and a Bayview citizen advisory committee has languished for two years.

But compare this $450K price with what other land is currently on the market, and it starts to look a little better. A little.

Previously: This Shack Just Sold For $1.2 Million

Photo: MLS