SF News Dozens of Windows Cracked at Salesforce Tower In High Winds; One Window Falls Off Millennium Tower The unusual, gale-force winds on Tuesday did plenty of damage across the Bay Area, including damage to windows on at least three downtown SF highrises.
SF News Glass Being Blown Off Downtown SF Tower 555 California Street, Shelter-In-Place Order Issued A shelter-in-place order was issued Tuesday afternoon after at least one large glass panel "became separated" from the 43rd floor of famed SF office tower 555 California Street, formerly known as Bank of America Center.
SF News First There Was 'East Cut,' Now There's 'Hayes Point' and 'Van Mission' — Please Make the New Neighborhood Names Stop Developers and realtors are always going to want to rebrand a part of the city when it lacks a distinct neighborhood designation of its own. But they need to stop because it's just getting comical.
SF News Board of Supervisors Set to Acknowledge Construction Cost Boom In New Deal For 98 Franklin Tower A planned residential tower that will house San Francisco's International High School in Hayes Valley is getting both a density bonus and permission not to include on-site affordable units in new proposed legislation from Supervisor Dean Preston.
SF News Strange Tower With Floating Top Proposed For SoMa, Designed By Same Firm as Infinity, 33 Tehama The Miami-based architecture firm that designed the Infinity towers, troubled 33 Tehama, and the mostly hideous Trinity Place has just unveiled renderings for a curious new residential tower — with a cube at the top that appears to float above the rest of the building.
Business & Tech 40-Story Tower at the Foot of Van Ness Goes Before Planning for Reapproval as Rental Apartments Days before its entitlements are set to expire, a very tall proposed residential tower at Van Ness and Market is headed before the Planning Commission this week, now as a significantly larger, all-rental property.
SF News Developer Unveils Plans For Downtown SF Tower That Will Almost Match Salesforce In Height What had been planned as an 818-foot tower has become an 1,066-foot tower according to newly unveiled project plans from developer Hines for a site behind the historic PG&E headquarters building in downtown SF.
SF News Window Glass Falls From 45th Story of The Avery In Downtown SF, Shatters On Ground It was a good thing on Thursday that the streets of downtown SF still aren't very busy, because a big pane of glass fell from a skyscraper and shattered on the sidewalk — and no one was injured.
Business & Tech The Crisis Around Chinese Developer Evergrande May Impact Oceanwide Development In SF The troubled Chinese-owned Oceanwide Center development at Mission and First, construction of which was fully halted a year ago, may face more troubles ahead as the Chinese economy faces a crisis that's pegged to real estate conglomerate Evergrande.
SF News Developer Seeks to Build 75-Story Residential Tower Behind Old PG&E Building on Market Street Another very tall tower could be added to San Francisco's skyline in the coming years, if developer Hines gets what they're asking for on the downtown block that used to belong to PG&E.
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 Revised Designs Revealed For 47-Story Tower at 30 Van Ness New proposed plans have arrived for a 520-foot, 47-story mixed-use building on the site of a shorter, city-owned building (where a Walgreens lives) at the corner of Van Ness and Market.
SF News 40-Story Tower at Van Ness and Market Delayed as Developer Seeks Buyer A 420-foot, 40-story residential tower at the intersection of Market Street, Oak Street, and Van Ness, dubbed One Oak, in planning since 2014, apparently doesn't "pencil" in the parlance of developers, and its entitlements are now up for grabs.
SF News 61-Story Tower Designed By Salesforce Tower Architects Will Be SF's 5th Tallest A 61-story mixed-used tower planned for the Transbay District's Parcel F — the largest of the remaining projects in the district not yet underway — just won a key approval at the Planning Commission on Thursday.
Business & Tech It's Not Even Built Yet, But Downtown's 61-Story Oceanwide Center Is Already For Sale Chinese developer Oceanwide Holdings looks to be trying to exit the U.S. market, either partially or fully, putting its considerable development portfolio in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco all on the market at once.
SF News Yet Another High-Rise Proposed For Downtown Oakland An Oakland developer has just submitted plans for a new 22-story highrise at Harrison and 14th Street that would combine 127 residential units and office space on the lower floors.
SF News Facebook Finally Comes To SF, Leases Entire Office Portion Of 181 Fremont It's confirmed! We reported the rumor in June, denied by Facebook at the time, that the social media giant was in talks with real estate brokers to lease a large amount of office
Arts & Entertainment Photos: A Miniature SF At Legoland California (Salesforce Tower Not Included) As parents with kids likely already know, Legoland California Resort has a section of the theme park called Miniland USA which can be cruised through on a boat or toured on foot. Miniature
SF News Proposed Van Ness Double Towers Want Double The Parking, 25 Percent More Units Plans are moving along for the tall building high-rise zone at Market Street and Van Ness Avenue, as a roughly 12-block area around that crossroads has been granted higher height allowances by the
SF News Facebook Reportedly In Talks To Take Over All, Or Just A Piece, Of New Downtown SF Tower The sleek new Heller Manus-designed glass tower going up downtown next door to Salesforce Tower, known until now as 181 Fremont, could end up becoming Facebook Tower if one real estate rumor proves
SF News Salesforce Tower Officially Tops Off; Top Floor To Be Event Space Available For Community Use This morning Salesforce Tower had its ceremonial topping off, which included a press conference with the mayor, several supervisors, the developer, and CEO Marc Benioff, and the hoisting of the "final" steel beam
SF News Behold The San Francisco Skyline Of The Very Near Future A new set of renderings by SF-based firm Steelblue visualize the result of a downtown building boom the likes of which we shouldn't expect to see again soon. Consider this a sneak peek
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 Chinese Firm Breaks Ground On What Will Be SF's Second Tallest Building, Oceanwide Center Thursday marked the ceremonial groundbreaking for Oceanwide Center, a complex of two towers and some smaller buildings, the tallest being 910 feet tall, at First and Mission Streets. Designed by London-based Foster + Partners