TransBay

[Patrick]

Couldn't find a pre-existing thread, but just learned that "it's back"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/12/BA3A1NJBIF.DTL#ixzz1owYeUhUE

 

[Beton Brut]

Pelli's design for the tower is still a shitty re-tread of his work in HK and NJ.

 

[vanshnookenraggen]

/\ From the looks of it it will fall somewhere in the middle, quality wise. /\

 

[Beton Brut]

I preferred the Richard Rodgers scheme.

If only we could expect something half as good at South Station.

 

[JohnAKeith]

It lives!

Boston Properties (NYSE: BXP) and Hines will break ground today on the Transbay Transit Tower, a 60-story office building at Mission and First streets in San Francisco.

More: Boston Properties to break ground on West Coast’s tallest tower

 

[Smartiro]

Renamed to Salesforce Tower:
http://www.boston.com/business/news/2014/04/11/boston-properties-signs-the-largest-office-lease-san-francisco-history/0uXlbXKN6p80TiRDOr2zDL/story.html

 

[Matthew]

Really great article if you can spare the time. Also explained the politics of the bus protesters a bit better. But I still think they are insane and wrongheaded.

 

[JohnAKeith]

"I'm not dead yet."

Article gives update as well as some background on San Francisco's mega-project.

Transbay redevelopment hits key milestone with $44M land sale to Essex, TMG
By Corey Weinberg, San Francisco Business Journal

In order for office towers, apartment buildings and parks to rise on publicly owned land around the future Salesforce Tower, a lot needs to click.

Developers and investors need to sign onto San Francisco's stringent affordable housing and open space requirements in the Transbay redevelopment area, while the Board of Supervisors needs to make sure new private landowners are paying a fair price for the parcels.

All that came together Tuesday when publicly traded real estate investor Essex Property Trust, Inc. and local developer TMG Partners finalized the $43.6 million purchase of Transbay Block 9, on the corner of First and Folsom Streets.

The purchase paves the way for construction to start this fall on the apartment complex with 536 units. It will likely be completed by 2017, making it one of the first projects to finish in Transbay. The Board of Supervisors approved the project last week.