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The Numbers Behind the Lease Up of New Below Market Units

The Numbers Behind the Lease Up of New Below Market Units

Nearly 7,000 applications (6,849) were received for the 108 Below Market Rate (“BMR”) rental units in the new 537-unit development at 500 Folsom Street, on Transbay Block 9, which was completed at the end of 2019. And while waylaid by the pandemic, BRIDGE Housing was able to have 100... Read More »

Site Prep for 400-Foot Transbay Tower with 545 Units Underway

Site Prep for 400-Foot Transbay Tower with 545 Units Underway

Building permits have been issued and the site prep for the 42-story Transbay District tower to rise up to 400-feet in height on the northwest corner of Folsom and First, across the street from Transbay Block 8, is now underway. Also known as 500/510 Folsom, the Transbay Block 9... Read More »

Team Preparing To Break Ground For 400-Foot Transbay Tower

Team Preparing To Break Ground For 400-Foot Transbay Tower

Essex Property Trust and TMG Partners are preparing to break ground earlier than expected for the 400-foot tower to rise at the corner of Folsom and First on Transbay Block 9. As we first reported last year, while the winning proposal for the Block 9 development had included 563... Read More »

Refined Designs And Timing For 400-Foot Transbay Block 9 Tower

Refined Designs And Timing For 400-Foot Transbay Block 9 Tower

The designs for the 400-foot tower and 85-foot podium to rise on Transbay Block 9, at the corner of Folsom and First, have been refined by SOM (tower) and Fougeron Architecture (podium), and the total number of residences and ratio of Below Market Rate (BMR) units within the development... Read More »

San Francisco’s Transbay District Rising And Urban Living Room

San Francisco’s Transbay District Rising And Urban Living Room

Believe it or not, that’s a slice of San Francisco’s not too distant future skyline rendered above, a view from the elevated Transbay Park, looking south towards the 550-foot tower of Transbay Block 8 (which is in the works) and the 400-foot tower of Transbay Block 9 (which is already rising).... Read More »

The Winning Design And Developer For Transbay Block 9

The Winning Design And Developer For Transbay Block 9

With a design by SOM and rendered by steeleblue, Avant Housing and Essex Property Trust have been selected by The Successor Agency to the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency to develop Transbay District Block 9 along Folsom Street. On the site between First and Essex Streets, a 400-foot tower and... Read More »

Transbay Developments: Block 9 RFP About To Make The Rounds

Transbay Developments: Block 9 RFP About To Make The Rounds

With the construction of 120 below market rate (BMR) units well underway on Transbay Block 11A, the development team for 450 units and a 300-foot tower upon San Francisco’s Transbay Blocks 6 and 7 having been selected, and Block 8 on hold, according to a plugged-in tipster, the Request... Read More »