Tower May Conflict with Skyline Policy, Alternatives Sought
Engineered by Planning and adopted back in 2012, San Francisco’s Transit Center District Plan (TCDP) was designed to limit the number of tall buildings that would rise above the city’s…
The Public Art to Illuminate Salesforce Tower
San Francisco-based artist, Jim Campbell, who is known for his work with LEDs, has been commissioned to illuminate the crown of San Francisco’s 1,070-foot-tall Salesforce (a.k.a. Transbay) Tower. Campbell’s installation…
More Height Coming in the New Year
While the height of the new Salesforce/Transbay Tower rising at 415 Mission Street has already caught plenty of people by surprise, particularly when unexpectedly seen from afar, keep in mind…
Salesforce Tower Above Ground: Two Years and 1,070 Feet to Go
With its massive 14-foot thick concrete foundation having been cured and its basement levels constructed, the future Salesforce Tower and tallest building in San Francisco is now rising above ground.…
Stunning New Renderings And Context For SoMa Mega-Project
A copy of the 5M Project presentation which Forest City prepared for San Francisco’s Planning Commission includes a number of stunning new renderings for the proposed development and a fantastic…
Google Expands San Francisco Footprint By Over Fifty Percent
With an estimated 2,500 employees in the city, behind Salesforce with an estimated 4,000 and ahead of Twitter with an estimated 1,500, Google is the second largest tech employer in…
Transbay Tower To Become “Salesforce Tower” With Monster Lease
Salesforce.com will lease just over half of the 1,070-foot-tall Transbay Tower rising at 415 Mission Street, adding 714,000 square feet of space to their collective San Francisco “campus.” The 61-story…
Hines And Boston Balk At Having To Pay For Transbay Park Upkeep
Having paid the City $160 million less than they originally bid for the land upon which they are building the 1,050-foot Transbay Tower, Hines and Boston Properties are now balking…
Transbay Tower Site Transferred And Ceremonially Breaks Ground
With a past due check for $191,816,196.57 delivered yesterday, the Transbay Joint Powers Authority has officially sold and transferred the 101 First Street site upon which the 1,070-foot Transbay Tower…
Financial Partner Secured To Build San Francisco’s Transbay Tower
As we wrote last week with respect to the recently approved 61-story Transbay Tower to rise at 101 First Street: In terms of the land on which the tower would…