Renderings of the 30-something-story highrise apartment tower Hanover plans to build on the site of a portion of the Kirby Court Apartments (and a couple of nearby retail buildings) across from the Whole Foods Market show the building hanging back from Kirby Dr. That’ll leave room for a bit of a restaurant complex facing the busy north-south street (at right in the above rendering): One of them will be the existing Becks Prime drive-thru at the corner of Kirby and Kipling, which is not a part of the project. But a new (and likely more upscale) standalone restaurant structure next to it at the corner of Kirby and Steel St. will replace the structure currently housing Ashly Fine Rugs:

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Behind the restaurant building, a “plaza drive” extending from Kipling to Steel St. will riff on the drive-thru theme, and front a second row of restaurants (or more likely, restaurant) in the ground floor of the parking garage:

The lobby and front door to the Hanover River Oaks apartments will be at the southern, or Steel St. end of the drive, though a note at the bottom of one of architects Solomon Cordwell Buenz‘s drawings appears to label the tower with a 2651 Kipling St. address:

Here’s an overview of the lower floors and the restaurant plaza, with the Becks Prime rendered in invisible burger ink at the far right:

An overall view of the structure from the northeast shows the parking garage at the base of the building, and a deck above its northern portion:

This view, facing northeast, shows the allée of oak trees along Steel St. (in the foreground) still standing, but the rest of the Kirby Court apartments gone:

Hanover’s David Ott tells the Chronicle ‘s Nancy Sarnoff that the company has the 1.65-acre site across from Whole Foods Market under contract, but is not scheduled to close the transaction until early next year. Construction of the 370-unit structure would begin next summer.

Renderings: Solomon Cordwell Buenz

Hanover River Oaks