SF News New Tall Skyscraper Planned Near Salesforce Tower Moves Forward With Groundbreaking Plans Despite Everything The developer behind a 61-story mixed-use tower slated to go in at 550 Howard Street announced plans today for an early 2022 groundbreaking, delivering solid evidence that developers remain very optimistic about post-pandemic San Francisco.
SF News 'Salesforce Transit Center' Is Now Officially A Thing; SFMTA Head Calls It 'Distasteful' The board of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) made it official Thursday, granting naming rights for the new Transbay Transit Center to Salesforce. This means that the word "transbay" has actually been
SF News Now They're Trying To Rebrand Rincon Hill As 'The East Cut' And You Know What? No. A community benefit district downtown that encompasses what we usually call Rincon Hill and the Transbay District is spending $70,000 on marketing to get us to accept their new name for the
Arts & Entertainment Behold The First Renderings Of The Renzo Piano-Designed Hotel And Condo At 555 Howard The final design pieces of the Transbay District are clicking into place, and one of the last parcels to get developed, 555 Howard an oddly shaped parcel hemmed in by Tehama Street and
Arts & Entertainment Revised Designs Submitted For Final Skyscraper Going Into Transbay District Pelli Clark Pelli, the same architectural firm responsible for the dildo-shaped tower rising downtown that's soon to be named Salesforce, has just submitted some revised designs to Planning for a second tower they're
SF News Salesforce Tower Update: Rising Fast And Installation Begins On Exterior Curtain Wall Installation of the curtain wall has begun #progress #construction #supertall #ilovesf #highrise #cre @salesforce A video posted by Salesforce Tower (@salesforcetower) on Jul 19, 2016 at 10:03am PDT Another milestone arrives this
SF News Awesome, Twisty Tower Designed By Jeanne Gang For 160 Folsom Gets Another Approval It looks like full steam ahead for the rad, unique, 39-story residential tower by acclaimed Chicago architect Jeanne Gang that's been proposed for 160 Folsom Street, one of the final pieces of land
SF News Guess What! The Transbay Terminal Project Has Run Out Of Money Again Budget shortfalls and funding drama have been the name of the game in the construction of the $2.25 billion Transbay Transit Center project going back several years. And now, the six-story, four-block-long
Arts & Entertainment Transbay Transit Center Gets First Panel Of Patterned Metal 'Skin' To celebrate their progress and also remind us that this Transbay Transit Center thing is really happening, Darin Cook, a senior associate principal with designers Pelli Clarke Pelli Architect, led the big reveal
SF News SF's Soon-To-Be Tallest Building Pours Foundation, Will Now Rise Quickly While you were all out day-drinking, the Salesforce Tower construction site was a nexus of major activity on Sunday as an army of cement mixers rolled through to deliver a truly massive amount
Arts & Entertainment Checking Back In On The Transbay Transit Center, And Its Shiny Metal 'Skin' The Transbay Transit Center, which will transform the landscape of downtown SF when it opens for business in late 2017, continues to take shape out of the ground along four blocks of Natoma
Arts & Entertainment Here's The View From The Embarcadero Once Six Proposed New Towers Go Up Near Howard Via Socketsite today, and a "plugged in tipster" over there, we get a rendering (likely from architects Skidmore Owings & Merrill) of their proposed 75 Howard condo building in the context of five
SF News Transbay Transit Center To Become The Google Transit Center? Ugh. Alongside Salesforce Tower, the big new transit center taking shape downtown could be getting a corporate moniker, thanks to the sale of naming rights for the center, its rooftop park, or any
SF News Transbay Developers Only Bluffing, Will Not Sue City As it happens, all that noise last fall from several of the big developers involved in the Transbay district over the special assessment taxes they have to pay to the city was just
SF News Eight Transbay Property Owners Vote To Approve Special Tax; Lawsuit May Still Be Coming Those of you paying attention will remember that there was some major brouhaha between downtown developers and City Hall after the Board of Supervisors voted to approve a previously agreed-upon special-assessment tax for
SF News Native American Remains Found During Transbay Excavation Making Things A Little Complicated Back in February we learned that the extremely old remains of a person thought to be of Native American descent were found during the excavation for the Transbay Transit Center. It turns out
SF News More On The Escalating Tensions Between Transbay Developers And City Hall This all may be much ado about nothing in the end because it's in everyone's best interest to resolve this dispute quickly and no one really wants a lawsuit but tensions remain high
SF News Transbay Transit Center Deal Collapses, Developers All Back Out Of Tax Deal We thought this was settled two weeks ago, but now everything is a mess. As of today's Board of Supervisors meeting, the original, two-year-old understanding between developers in the Transbay District and the
SF News City Cuts Deal With Transbay District Developers For Downtown Rail Extension On Monday we talked about the rumblings from developers about how they didn't want to pony up the increasingly large sums they were on the hook for as part of a special assessment
SF News Developers Attempting To Skip Out On Paying For Downtown High Speed Rail Extension Remember how Supervisors Scott Wiener and Jane Kim were expressing some concern a couple months ago about the Mayor's Office's assurances that the rooftop park at the new Transbay Transit Center would be
Arts & Entertainment We Now Have Renderings Of Tall Towers at First and Mission, and South Van Ness and Mission That Norman Foster-designed, 910-foot tower at First and Mission Streets which did not have a complete rendering as of last week now does, along with a full, early critique by architecture critic John
SF News Two Cool Skyscrapers By Architect Norman Foster Proposed For First and Mission Architecture critic John King calls plans for two new tall buildings in the Transbay District by starchitect Norman Foster "gasp-inducing," and we don't even have clear renderings yet. Nonetheless, it looks like we
SF News Gorgeous New Highrise Proposed For Transbay District By Noted Architect Jeanne Gang Hooray for tall buildings! A beautiful, 400-foot tower has been proposed for a corner on the north side of the Folsom and Spear intersection with a stunning, undulating design by Chicago architect Jeanne
Arts & Entertainment Video: The Largest-Ever 3D-Printed Model Of San Francisco Local companies Autodesk and Steelblue have come together to 3D-print a facsimile of San Francisco's rapidly developing SoMa and Financial Districts. Why? Because it makes a cool video, obviously. But also because, in
SF News LinkedIn Plans To Lease Entire 26-Story Office Tower In SoMa In the latest high-profile office lease, Mountain View-based buttoned-up social network LinkedIn will be expanding to San Francisco proper with 450,000 square feet of office space in the forthcoming 222 Second Street
