If you want to live like a Bond villain/unrealistically wealthy man-child Tom Hanks in Big, get a load of this penthouse loft that just came on the market at 461 Second Street, a.k.a. the Clock Tower Building. The space was constructed way back when this section of SoMa was a veritable ghost town, even before AT&T Park was open. As the Chronicle reports, current owners Tom and Carol Burkhart bought the place 23 years ago after living across the street for years and coveting the tower. They made an offer as soon as it went on the market, following a renovation of the building by architect David Baker, and this is the first time it's been on the market since — offered at a cool $8.5 million.

The space is pretty stunning, as you can see, with two bedrooms and living areas spread across the 1990's-era structure on the original building's roof. That attaches to the brick tower, in which there are three-stories of rooms, including the clock room at the top, staged here with a cocktail cart for entertaining.

As Curbed notes, the building dates to 1907, but the historic tower was almost demolished in the 1930's to make way for the Bay Bridge approach. The building owner, lithographer Max Schmidt, threatened to move his business to Oakland and the city ended up redirecting the roadway to avoid the building.

See more photos at Curbed and at SFGate.

Photo via of Rob Levy and Eric Turner - Sotheby’s International Realty and OpenHomes Photography