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 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 Construction Tumble At Transbay Terminal Site A minor accident occurred this morning during excavation on part of the Transbay Transit Center site. A backhoe excavator appears to have slipped into the very hole it was helping to dig, and
SF News Transbay Project Faces Funding Drama The Transbay Transit Center project is now facing a $300 million shortfall, which, in case you aren't sure, is kind of a big number. The first phase of the project, which includes the
SF News High Speed Rail: 'World Is Full Of NIMBYS And Fearful Men,' Says Gov. Brown After signing an $8 billion funding measure on Wednesday that will start construction on "the country's fastest rail system," Governor Jerry Brown climbed atop platform at the burgeoning Transbay Terminal in downtown San
SF News Planning Commission Says Yes to Tall Buildings!! We've made no secret here at SFist of our support for actual tall buildings in our fair city, where some dumb ordinance from the 80s created by people scared of shadows has kept
SF News Boo! Transbay Tower Gets Shorter In news that is likely to annoy all those of us who like tall buildings and despise San Franciscans' general aversion to them, a revamped design for the Transbay Tower was just unveiled
SF News NIMBY Watch: Transbay Tower Impact Report to Be Debated Thursday Let us go on the record right now as saying We Like Tall Buildings. We do. We think this city would be all the prettier with a few more actually tall structures, and
Arts & Entertainment Transbay Site to Get Big, Awkward Sculpture Made Out of Transbay Terminal Scraps Before we see anything else on the site of the former Transbay Terminal and the future Transbay transit hub/spectacularly tall tower, we may be seeing a piece of public art made from
SF News Temporary Transbay Terminal to House Most Closely-Guarded Public Restroom in Town If you've recently found yourself questioning your continence while waiting for a bus back to the East Bay, then you probably found yourself out of luck with regards to the on-hand facilities at
misc Video: San Francisco Transbay Terminal Demolition San Francisco Transbay Terminal Demolition from David C. Hill on Vimeo. Using his own black-and-white photography and footage, David C. Hill created this poignant video about the San Francisco Transbay Terminal demolition, which
misc Stinky Fremont Underpass Now a Lovely Gazebo SFist reader Justin Neisuler captured this image of the onetime harrowing and odorous Fremont underpass, which, during Transbay Terminal construction, has become a lovely, sun-drenched gazebo.
SF News Homeless Woman Burns Tourist's Face With Cigarette at Fisherman's Wharf In a new endorsement for S.F. as America's number-one tourist destination (18th year in a row, boyeee), two "transients" attacked a tourist couple near Fisherman's Wharf last week. As Mike Aldax reports
SF News Photos: Final Transbay Terminal Bus Departs On Saturday night, the last commuter line on AC Transit departed the (former!) Transbay Terminal at 12:15 a.m., and thus ending an era in San Francisco. The terminal, as many of
SF News Photo du Jour 473 The culprit behind yesterday's bomb scare that closed down Transbay Terminal ad blocked off a four-block radius in downtown San Francisco: a bag full of dirty clothes. According to Plug 1, who shot
SF News Bomb Squad Truck at Transbay Terminal The big bomb squad truck is there at the Transbay Terminal right now. AlertSF says you'll want to avoid the area for at least the next 90 minutes. We'll update with more info
SF News Last Night's Transbay Terminal Meeting Curbed Sarah has a new whipping boy over at Curbed. Intern Andy Wang went to last night's Transbay Terminal meeting that included "a dizzying barrage of downtown skyline simulations;" tittering over the term "downtown
misc Size Does Matter: Transbay Terminal Is So Big The Library Tower (AKA the U.S. Bank Tower) in Los Angeles could soon be the second tallest building west of the Mississippi thanks to San Francisco's proposed Transbay Terminal. While the Library
misc Oh, Look, a Government Agency that Actually Does a Pretty Smart Job of Spending Our Money The SFCTA is like Muni's successful younger sibling: they may be smaller, but they're lean and quick and very efficient. These folks get stuff . In addition to fixing all the broken transit in
SF News SF Rapist/Kidnapper Nabbed at Transbay Terminal From November 16 to November 18, Denton Geiger, 42, a San Francisco resident, held his (ex)girlfriend captive in their former home, where beat and raped her. (Jesus.) According to the Examiner, "Geiger
Arts & Entertainment Just As You Expected...Pelli Clarke Pelli Wins It Yay! Or boo! Depending on how you feel -- though we personally like it, may it get bigger by the day -- Pelli-Hines' creation will be your new Transbay Terminal. But you already
SF News Day Around the Bay -- San Mateo Bridge shuts down, then opens. Ta-da. [Examiner] -- Dan Noyes on Jerry Lucas, the sanity-estranged man who followed a then-pregnant Jill Rabinowitz into her garage, severely beating her with a
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Not enough credit card debt in your life? Top-shelf department store Barneys New York will solve that problem after it opens this week. [Chron] -- Health care for uninsured San Franciscans to
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Did you call your district supervisor to halt the Blue Angels today? Neither did we. [IndyBay] -- Obama was here, or something. [BeyondChron, Oakland Tribune] -- San Francisco's Next Top Transbay Terminal.
