SAN FRANCISCO | Projects: Under Construction, Approved, and Proposed

[timbad]

the renovation of South Park (http://sfrecpark.org/project/south-park/) has started. pics basically walking west to east along the southern edge

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[brantw]

If you guys haven't seen this super high resolution panorama from Coit Tower, I definitely recommend checking it out. It's presented by Bud Light, so you have to enter your age, but the resolution on this thing is blowing me away. You can just keep zooming and zooming... I promise you won't be disappointed.

https://sanfrancisco.fancam.com/2016/

[phoenixboi08]

If you guys haven't seen this super high resolution panorama from Coit Tower, I definitely recommend checking it out. It's presented by Bud Light, so you have to enter your age, but the resolution on this thing is blowing me away. You can just keep zooming and zooming... I promise you won't be disappointed.

https://sanfrancisco.fancam.com/2016/

I found a baguette on someone's kitchen counter :runaway:

[Jerry of San Fran]

I got my first view of the Salesforce tower construction tonight.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1585/24552887700_312bc72a74_b.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/DpDY71)Salesforce Tower - 02/05/2016 (https://flic.kr/p/DpDY71)

[viewguysf]

I got my first view of the Salesforce tower construction tonight.

Jerry, are you watching the thread for it? http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=199946&page=66

[timpdx]

I found a baguette on someone's kitchen counter :runaway:

That is nuts, someone left dirty dishes on their table. Wonder what camera they used to stitch that thing, most detail pano I have ever seen.

[AndrewK]

I can see into my dining room window...

[fimiak]

Today all around the Transbay Center.

http://i.imgur.com/txA31pvh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/A053QbHh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/i8AZCWeh.jpg

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[timbad]

the little project between Fourth and Fifth on Bluxome

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[timbad]

sidewalks are opening around Potrero1010. this is the 16th St side

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1583/24750300202_0386090f0e_b.jpg

and Hubbell again, on the NW side

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[1977]

A couple new infill projects for Polk and South of Market:

1567 California
http://www.socketsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1567-California-Rendering-2016-1.jpg
...if approved at the end of this month, a seven-story building with 63 condos over 8,000 square feet of new retail space and an underground garage for 41 cars will rise up to 80-feet in height on the southeast corner of Polk and California.
Source and more info (http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/02/polk-street-rising-refined-designs-for-a-prominent-corner-parcel.html)


988 Harrison
http://www.socketsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/988-Harrison-Street-Rendering.jpg
he proposed 8‐story building to rise at 988 Harrison Street, on the northeast corner of Sixth and Harrison across from The EndUp, is slated to be approved by San Francisco’s Planning Commission at the end of this month.
Source and more info (http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/02/hearing-for-a-hundred-units-of-housing-to-end-up-at-6th-and-harrison.html)


Also, a 32 story proposal at 95 Hawthorne:

https://hoodwork-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/story/image/16522/95_Hawthorne_Tower_2.jpg
https://hoodwork-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/story/image/16517/95_Hawthorne_3.jpg
https://hoodwork-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/story/image/16521/95_Hawthorne_Skyline.jpg
Another tower may soon rise in SoMa's growing Transit Center District.

The owners of 95 Hawthorne at Folsom Street have submitted plans to demolish the existing five-story office building in favor of a 32-story, 320-foot-tall residential tower with off-street vehicle parking and ground-floor retail space.Source and more info (http://hoodline.com/2016/02/32-story-residential-tower-proposed-for-hawthorne-and-folsom)


Lastly, I'm not sure what the status is of this one, but it's great to see some new architecture on the west side of the city.

Parkmerced Block 20
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/51dd0386e4b02bbec326ad32/5578c93de4b0dfea703a2433/55c3fb3ae4b0c1eb16131623/1438907203850/c01-edit.jpg?format=2500w
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/51dd0386e4b02bbec326ad32/5578c93de4b0dfea703a2433/55c3fa92e4b09e7cf23ea1d4/1438907030686/c03-2.jpg?format=2500w
Parkmerced Block 20 is a part of the Parkmerced Vision Plan to develop a vital neighborhood rooted in forward-thinking urban ecology. Kwan Henmi is currently designing the 299-unit residential complex that includes an 8-story midrise and a 17-story tower. The 435,000 sf project contains studios, one-bedroom units, 2-bedroom units, 3-bedroom townhouses, 2 residential lobbies, fitness, and amenity space.
Source and more info (http://www.kwanhenmi.com/park-merced/)

[timbad]

wow, would be nice to have that height, and new people, on Hawthorne there.

some random things...

views of the Dropbox headquarters on Brannan, which is just about wrapped up. here is the back, looking north along Stanford Alley. there is still a parking lot between this building and the restaurant Tres to the south on Townsend.

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I think the building fits in nicely with the SOMA vibe. close-up of the alley:

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a little sitting area on the alley

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the sidewalk on Brannan is a step up in esthetics from your parents' SOMA

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down the street, Splunk building gradually finishing up too:

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jumping down to Dogpatch, the project on Third at 23rd seems to be moving slowly to me

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1714/24929761752_30421b3854_b.jpg

not sure people care too much about this type of project, but Muni is expanding its facility on Islais Creek. the little creek-front walkway and landscaped area that was put in when the first phase was constructed has seen better days

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[timbad]

the block 6/7 thread is closed, so here's a shot of the townhomes on the north side of Solaire

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1635/24930005132_30e3fdc916_b.jpg

[viewguysf]

the block 6/7 thread is closed, so here's a shot of the townhomes on the north side of Solaire

I wish they'd stop closing threads before projects are completed. The balconies on the tower have not been finished yet either.

[a very long weekend]

wow, that's terrible. i know many people from the industry read ssp and i know that there are many constraints down the line, but what's being built out in the soma/rincon is just a total abdication of the responsibility that developers have to the city. it's hard to get something interesting through planning, and it costs a lot. but this streetscape wouldn't even be interesting in san diego.

for the employees reading this recently hired on by some of the newer players in the sf market, hear this: it may seem smart to do the minimum and suck money back to miami or boston but, trust me, the 60 million you paid for a whatever property nearby gets more expensive to develop once the SF backlash sets in. you build shit here, the people will punish you. do your research. you can only build so badly for so long until the 30 million you've managed to pull out of the market over the past year or two is instantly vaporized by a ballot initiative that hits the other lots you paid top dollar for.

edited to split into two text chunks.

[ChargerCarl]

wow, that's terrible. i know many people from the industry read ssp and i know that there are many constraints down the line, but what's being built out in the soma/rincon is just a total abdication of the responsibility that developers have to the city. it's hard to get something interesting through planning, and it costs a lot. but this streetscape wouldn't even be interesting in san diego. for the employees reading this recently hired on by some of the newer players in the sf market, hear this: it may seem smart to do the minimum and suck money back to miami or boston but, trust me, the 60 million you paid for a whatever property nearby gets more expensive to develop once the SF backlash sets in. you build shit here, the people will punish you. do your research. you can only build so badly for so long until the 30 million you've managed to pull out of the market over the past year or two is instantly vaporized by a ballot initiative that hits the other lots you paid top dollar for.

Developers have no more responsibility to the city than any other business, nor do they have a responsibility to cater to your individual preferences. The fact that every two-bit chump in this city thinks otherwise, and the fact that we stupidly give them a means via which to turn their NIMBy outrage into disrupting development is a reflection of SF's lousy civil institutions, not lousy development.

[a very long weekend]

^ sure, you can take some principled position against nimbyism or developer responsibility, but it's irrelevant to how things actually work. you're baying at the moon, my friend. i'm warning that if developers continue to build in such a way that makes displeases san franciscans, eventually san franciscans will punish. we've seen it many many times. most dramatic, i think, was the sweeping prop m restrictions voted back in 1986, which, if you dig through the archives, turned more on aesthetics than anything else. if you've been to a community meeting, you'll know how often the built form itself comes up.

[ozone]

Eek ^^^^^^^ San Francisco is spoiled with riches. Most ciies would be happy to have a quarter of the development that she has. But in terms of architectural quality San Francisco has always been the whole is greater than sum of its parts type of place. Every city has junk built but in San Francisco it stands out more. Maybe that's why some feel safer with the bland than with the bold. But for all the mediocrity and loss opportunities that the nimbys, red tape and boarding has given the city it has also saved it on more than one occasion.

[mt_climber13]

wow, that's terrible. i know many people from the industry read ssp and i know that there are many constraints down the line, but what's being built out in the soma/rincon is just a total abdication of the responsibility that developers have to the city. it's hard to get something interesting through planning, and it costs a lot. but this streetscape wouldn't even be interesting in san diego.

for the employees reading this recently hired on by some of the newer players in the sf market, hear this: it may seem smart to do the minimum and suck money back to miami or boston but, trust me, the 60 million you paid for a whatever property nearby gets more expensive to develop once the SF backlash sets in. you build shit here, the people will punish you. do your research. you can only build so badly for so long until the 30 million you've managed to pull out of the market over the past year or two is instantly vaporized by a ballot initiative that hits the other lots you paid top dollar for.

edited to split into two text chunks.

I assume you are talking about the affordable housing complex Solaire posted above? Because NIMBYs can't complain they want affordable housing *and* expensive aesthetics. Doesn't work like that. So SF either has affordable housing and bland aesthetics mixed in, or nothing but Infinitys and Luminas with no affordable housing.
The other projects in Soma posted above look pretty damn good to me (particularly the Dropbox development and streetscape).

[viewguysf]

The tower looks good and surprised many of us. Affordable housing is what it is, but we desperately need it.

[timbad]

wow, that's terrible. i know many people from the industry read ssp and i know that there are many constraints down the line, but what's being built out in the soma/rincon is just a total abdication of the responsibility that developers have to the city. it's hard to get something interesting through planning, and it costs a lot. but this streetscape wouldn't even be interesting in san diego. ...

not sure it is clear, but these townhomes are on Clementina Alley, so should not be as visible as if they were on Folsom, for example. according to the schematic below, the alley seems intended to feel more low-key and residential. the structures on the other side of Clementina (block 7) have not been started yet (mods: another reason not to have closed that thread).

http://www.socketsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Block-6-7-Site-Schematic.gif

I actually like the variety in heights and feel.

[timbad]

can't remember if I've mentioned this before, but for the last few weeks there have been construction signs on the fences around 100 Hooper (http://hundredhooper.com) in Showplace Square, across Seventh St from Mission Bay. a few weeks before that the storage space company was cleared off the site. this article (http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/100-Hooper-site-acquired-for-complex-to-house-6371561.php) from July 2015 said it would get going last year already. heavy PDR use

[cwilly]

New sidewalks and street trees are in at 399 Fremont

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1672/25094740645_d1d0c21e43_b.jpg

[minesweeper]

In Mid-Market news, the renovation of the Hibernia Bank building is complete, and they're looking for a tenant (http://thehiberniabanksf.com/).

The building's sign is being lit up for the first time in years:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ca_BiyNUUAAGCFX.jpg
Source: @shanand on Twitter (https://twitter.com/shanand/status/697989276462546944)

Based on some recent stories, it looks like they did a beautiful job with the renovation:


http://www.ktvu.com/news/56555675-story
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/362977151.html

[JWS]

For what it's worth, and I don't have a photo, but driving home tonight I saw that the lobby for the Dolby building is now finished and open on Market. Looks really nice.

As an aside, that block is bizarre...you have the Twitter building retail open (First Republic and Cadillac), the AVA retail open (the restaurants and cafes) and now the Dolby lobby, and still the streetlife seems extremely marginal and at times dangerous. My wife and I are moving to NEMA by the summer (ugly building but the amenities are still heads and tails the best of all the Mid-Market buildings) but I'm just not convinced Mid-Market can go anywhere farther until the streets are cleaned up. The Civic, Trinity, the Mission buildings, etc will bring more new residents to the area in the short term, let alone the larger projects later on (God I hope One Oak gets going this building cycle), but I haven't seen a change at ALL in terms of streetlife. Still would feel unsafe walking down Mission later at night.

Not talking about tame panhandlers and people trying to get on their feet, that much is expected for the inner-city. Talking about flagrant drug deals and use, gang activity, and unstable personalities.

[fflint]

That's the thing about tech firms, which provide employees with free on-site meals, laundry services, etc. so employees never have to stop working and leave the building. Generally speaking, they don't need to leave to find food or services, so they don't.

An office building as big as the Twitter building, were it filled with employees of law firms, accountancy firms, banks, architecture firms, etc. would regularly put a shit-ton more people out on the streets, as we see in the Financial District proper.

That said, there is just enough demand to open up retail/food on the ground floor--so it has improved. I just don't think the area will get any busier than it currently is, absent some massive expansion of office space. For what it's worth, and I don't have a photo, but driving home tonight I saw that the lobby for the Dolby building is now finished and open on Market. Looks really nice.

As an aside, that block is bizarre...you have the Twitter building retail open (First Republic and Cadillac), the AVA retail open (the restaurants and cafes) and now the Dolby lobby, and still the streetlife seems extremely marginal and at times dangerous. My wife and I are moving to NEMA by the summer (ugly building but the amenities are still heads and tails the best of all the Mid-Market buildings) but I'm just not convinced Mid-Market can go anywhere farther until the streets are cleaned up. The Civic, Trinity, the Mission buildings, etc will bring more new residents to the area in the short term, let alone the larger projects later on (God I hope One Oak gets going this building cycle), but I haven't seen a change at ALL in terms of streetlife. Still would feel unsafe walking down Mission later at night.

Not talking about tame panhandlers and people trying to get on their feet, that much is expected for the inner-city. Talking about flagrant drug deals and use, gang activity, and unstable personalities.

[timbad]

Rincon Hill taking its place in the skyline, as seen looking SW from an approaching ferry

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[Jerry of San Fran]

JWS - There is one more new business on the first block of Ninth St., the Perinneal Restaurant in the AVA building (I ate there last week - the food is quite good).

I have lived in the neighborhood for 44 years & the street scene is worse than it has ever been, 2nd only to when Art Agnos was mayor. I am hopeful that the intelligent people of San Francisco will get enough of crime & demand changes.

The good thing that I have seen in the area due to the new highrises is a dramatic increase of pedestrians.

For what it's worth, and I don't have a photo, but driving home tonight I saw that the lobby for the Dolby building is now finished and open on Market. Looks really nice.

As an aside, that block is bizarre...you have the Twitter building retail open (First Republic and Cadillac), the AVA retail open (the restaurants and cafes) and now the Dolby lobby, and still the streetlife seems extremely marginal and at times dangerous. My wife and I are moving to NEMA by the summer (ugly building but the amenities are still heads and tails the best of all the Mid-Market buildings) but I'm just not convinced Mid-Market can go anywhere farther until the streets are cleaned up. The Civic, Trinity, the Mission buildings, etc will bring more new residents to the area in the short term, let alone the larger projects later on (God I hope One Oak gets going this building cycle), but I haven't seen a change at ALL in terms of streetlife. Still would feel unsafe walking down Mission later at night.

Not talking about tame panhandlers and people trying to get on their feet, that much is expected for the inner-city. Talking about flagrant drug deals and use, gang activity, and unstable personalities.

[timbad]

looking south across the former Concourse Exhibition Center (future 855 Brannan Apts) down Eighth St, toward its sister project on Henry Adams

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1464/25136257226_fec38b05ab_b.jpg

and looking east up Brannan from about the same spot

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1671/25162599595_f6822e7daf_b.jpg

there is a good time-lapse of the construction progress here (http://www.dbarchitect.com/project_detail/164/855%20Brannan%20Street.html)

Market Place

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1663/25162597085_24274f6850_b.jpg

Apple Store

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1629/25069326911_34f14f69f2_b.jpg

[mt_climber13]

This project on the corner of Market/ Sanchez st.:

http://i.imgur.com/PH4ZHXD.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/ilW5GNc.jpg

[mt_climber13]

The 399 Fremont thread is closed (even though building isn't even done??) so posting this here:

http://i.imgur.com/oaaysNM.jpg

[fflint]

A Record 62,000 Units in San Francisco’s Housing Pipeline (http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/02/a-record-62000-units-in-san-franciscos-housing-pipeline.html)

socketsite

With proposals for over 3,000 units of housing having been submitted to the City in the fourth quarter of last year, San Francisco’s housing pipeline now totals a record 62,000 units, including 8,700 units which are already under construction and should be ready for occupancy within the next year or two.

In addition to the 8,700 net-new units of housing under construction in San Francisco, there are another 12,900 net-new units for which building permits have either been issued, approved or have been requested, which is double the number from the quarter before, and 23,100 units in projects that have been approved but not yet permitted (which does include 10,500 units by Candlestick, 7,800 units on Treasure Island and 5,680 units at Parkmerced, projects which have overall timelines measured in decades, not years).

And with proposals for another 17,900 units of housing being reviewed by the City’s Planning Department, San Francisco’s Housing Pipeline now totals 62,000, which is up from 59,000 in the third quarter of last year and 50,400 in the fourth quarter of 2014, of which 8,900 will be below market rate (BMR).

[david_h]

I don't think we have a Transbay Block 9 thread, but prep work has started...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1445/25236960596_15f6272571_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Es729h)

[timbad]

I don't think we have a Transbay Block 9 thread, but prep work has started...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1445/25236960596_15f6272571_c.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Es729h)

thanks david h! we do have a thread for that one (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=204082)

[timbad]

nice wide sidewalks in the making on Folsom in front of Solaire

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1536/24707135153_20fc986482_b.jpg

[1977]

nice wide sidewalks in the making on Folsom in front of Solaire

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1536/24707135153_20fc986482_b.jpg

timbad, nice pictures! Also, it looks like the yellow stripes are just temporary pieces of plywood until they use pavers - Could you tell in person? According to this (http://www.scribd.com/doc/272087267/150716-Transbay-Folsom-Streetscape-Final), it looks like they'll eventually be 'granite bands'.

https://html1-f.scribdassets.com/8e60bicx1c4kxjrq/images/16-6034f9ddc3.jpg

[timbad]

timbad, nice pictures! Also, it looks like the yellow stripes are just temporary pieces of plywood until they use pavers - Could you tell in person? According to this (http://www.scribd.com/doc/272087267/150716-Transbay-Folsom-Streetscape-Final), it looks like they'll eventually be 'granite bands'.


yes, exactly right - it's not in the pic, but the pavers in some of the granite bands have begun to be installed in front of the Philz Coffee in the mid-rise

[1977]

yes, exactly right - it's not in the pic, but the pavers in some of the granite bands have begun to be installed in front of the Philz Coffee in the mid-rise

Great! Thanks for the confirmation.

[simms3_redux]

I saw a crane (smaller tower crane) on Stevenson Alley from Mission St around 6th-8th area. Anyone recall if that is for one of the many smaller resi proposals we see once or twice over a 3-4 year span that has miraculously and finally broken ground? Looked to be on the Mission St side of Stevenson, and maybe about 1-3 floors up (I was in a cab at the time so hard to tell).

[BushMan]

I know many are disappointed that there will not be a muni subway stop on this lot but still nice to see this get started:

http://hoodline.com/2016/03/construction-for-condos-and-restaurant-at-former-pagoda-site-to-begin-next-week

[fflint]

Apropos of nothing:

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1693/24773874309_67b0644734_b.jpg
source (https://www.flickr.com/photos/metalka/24773874309/sizes/l)

[cesar90]

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[northbay]

Apropos of nothing:

https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1693/24773874309_67b0644734_b.jpg
source (https://www.flickr.com/photos/metalka/24773874309/sizes/l)

Great vintage photo! This photo shows how bad the Embarcadero Freeway was!

[SFView]

^That looks like it was taken somewhere around 1971-1972 from the Carnelian Room (top floor) of the Bank of America (now 555 California) Building. With all those relatively new and tall buildings seen there, it is sort of like the Rincon Hill/Transbay area of the day. I can see the Hyatt Regency under construction (middle right), and Embarcadero Center No. 2 just beginning site work.

[timbad]

I saw a crane (smaller tower crane) on Stevenson Alley from Mission St around 6th-8th area. Anyone recall if that is for one of the many smaller resi proposals we see once or twice over a 3-4 year span that has miraculously and finally broken ground? Looked to be on the Mission St side of Stevenson, and maybe about 1-3 floors up (I was in a cab at the time so hard to tell).

could this be what you saw, Stevenson and Seventh?

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1572/25553026206_06498dbe6d_b.jpg

this is the back of the renovation of this building, as seen from Market:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1707/25486445991_c5c9381ddd_b.jpg

[timbad]

the makeover of Dogpatch continues, piece by piece. this is 19th St and Tennessee (http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2014/09/downsized-dogpatch-development-slated-approval.html)

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1578/25460506982_472409e103_b.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1594/25579098385_2f17f31522_b.jpg

[timbad]

other randomness...

Moscone Center revamp:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1484/24948654694_afc4e45236_b.jpg

SF MOMA addition:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1516/25211676059_434d57dc0b_b.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1637/25211678439_ed91d1d443_b.jpg

more detail of the work on Clementina Alley in 'back' of Solaire

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1658/25486510731_186d82946e_b.jpg

more wide sidewalks on the way, here on Beale next to the MTC building

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1669/25283514420_a418b8dff3_b.jpg

[slock]

Didn't see a thread for 525 Harrison, but there's been permit movement for the first time since approval.

http://dbiweb.sfgov.org/dbipts/default.aspx?page=PermitDetails

Maybe this one could move forward this year as well.

https://www.hines.com/properties/525-harrison-san-francisco

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[timbad]

... it looks like the yellow stripes are just temporary pieces of plywood until they use pavers ... According to this (http://www.scribd.com/doc/272087267/150716-Transbay-Folsom-Streetscape-Final), it looks like they'll eventually be 'granite bands'.

https://html1-f.scribdassets.com/8e60bicx1c4kxjrq/images/16-6034f9ddc3.jpg

a little dark, but here are the granite bands on the Folsom sidewalk in front of Solaire in person:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1702/25685247391_b60dd422bc_b.jpg

and here a look into the mid-block passageway from Folsom to Clementina Alley, in progress

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1698/25780344555_634dcd1fb5_b.jpg

[timbad]

Fremont St is getting fancy. this is looking north from in front of 399

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1485/25685240011_0f1639e0e8_b.jpg

[fimiak]

Great looking sidewalk. My prediction is that those fancy bushes are going to be dead soon. Three new apartment buildings, 1000s of new units, and many hundreds (at least) of new dogs. NEMA had to re-build their planters on with a high base so that their entire front area didn't smell like foul pee 24/7, and that was just from their own residents.

[timbad]

can't remember if I'd posted something along these lines before, but the pedestrian experience around Potrero1010 will be much improved when the project is done. here is a sneak peek of the 16th St side. it's a shame the streets along the edges of this plot are so wide and not particularly cozy feeling - it would have made a nice complement to the future greenspace.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1670/25502389890_871e67f43c_b.jpg

the shroud has come off the stand-alone building on the corner of Seventh and 16th:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1612/25803076875_051c8b0284_b.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1656/25707979471_6ef59f1295_b.jpg

covering also coming off the large project at 8th Harrison. this is the SE corner

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1637/25803103625_4b54d49837_b.jpg

and looking east down Harrison:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1715/25707997921_0b882c73cb_b.jpg

wider view

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1688/25707989111_002ba18d73_b.jpg

the building at Franklin and Page also just starting to peek out

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1631/25707959151_1f5e1df78f_b.jpg

6th and Howard, the building that replaces the 'Defenestration' installation

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1643/25682065482_f3cabf8608_b.jpg

[a very long weekend]

the building at Franklin and Page also just starting to peek out

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1631/25707959151_1f5e1df78f_b.jpg


i like this little guy because it's to an appropriate scale and without parking.

[timbad]

this was in response to simms, who had spotted a crane:

could this be what you saw, Stevenson and Seventh?

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1572/25553026206_06498dbe6d_b.jpg

this is the back of the renovation of this building, as seen from Market:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1707/25486445991_c5c9381ddd_b.jpg

I goofed here. while the first pic is indeed on the south side of Stevenson (maybe more accurately the north side of Jessie), and was likely what simms saw, it is *not* the back of the renovation of the building in the second pic.

here are more shots from different angles of the project on Jessie. looking east from Stevenson:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1643/25682062822_662da71c26_b.jpg

and as seen from Mission

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1661/25803051175_594dc925d0_b.jpg

[timbad]

i like this little guy because it's to an appropriate scale and without parking.

agree! :yes:

[simms3_redux]

Timbad, that is what I saw.

I remember seeing renderings of this in the past 1-2 years but I'll be damned if I can find it again (socketsite article).

In doing a deep dive search for it I did uncover interesting reminders for everyone.

Palace Hotel condo tower article:

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2006/11/20/story1.html?b=1163998800%5E1377675

The big concerns back then were that the Garden Court would be shadowed. So essentially the Garden Court is a park and those with a stake in their own hotel/land cannot even build condos on their own dirt connected to their own hotel because Planning is so concerned on their behalf of shadowing their own restaurant. In a nutshell that was part of the article.


This is the same block:

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2011/09/67_units_for_young_professionals_between_6th_and_7th_as.html

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2011/12/round_three_for_527529_stevenson_as_proposed.html

http://commissions.sfplanning.org/cpcpackets/2010.0948XV1.pdf



Not a peep on this one nearby in a while.

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2015/03/big-vote-for-beer-store-adjacent-micro-units-this-week.html



Because it's been a year:

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2015/03/community-meeting-ruckus-over-mission-development-plans.html

I'm sure we can expect at least another 10 before something, smaller than this already fairly small project, gets built. Yay! Rent will only triple in that time.



This is also that area, but not the project:

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2015/09/new-facade-for-development-to-replace-den-of-adult-activities.html

What's the update there?


Can you believe Market City Place is a decade in the making?!?

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2008/10/the_designs_for_san_francsicos_cityplace_935965_market.html



Mid-market and Tenderlin recap with rendering porn:

http://hoodline.com/2015/12/tenderloin-mid-market-residential-development-update-winter-2015

All of these projects heavily contested by the lovely SRO and homeless residents of the area, of course.

[a very long weekend]

for those who don't read socketsite, a proposal for that blighted corner of powell and california, designed by the famed faux historicist robert stern:
http://i.imgur.com/eAQDJuw.jpg?1

44 condos, 48 parking spots, no commercial space (damn).
http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/03/nob-hill-corner-ready-to-sorta-rise-after-four-decades-of-underuse.html

[ozone]

^^^ wow that lot has been empty for as long as I can remember. I'm glad it's finally being built upon. This and 500 Pine St were for so long two of the weirdest out-of-place lots North of Market.

[minesweeper]

The U.S. Census Bureau released county (http://www.census.gov/popest/data/counties/totals/2015/CO-EST2015-01.html) and metro (http://www.census.gov/popest/data/metro/totals/2015/index.html) population estimates for July 1, 2015 today.

Here are the year-over-year estimated changes (2014 to 2015):


Alameda County (+25365, +1.6%) from 1,612,850 to 1,638,215
Contra Costa County (+15035, +1.4%) from 1,111,710 to 1,126,745
Marin County (+671, +0.3%) from 260,550 to 261,221
Napa County (+905, +0.6%) from 141,551 to 142,456
San Francisco (+12279, +1.4%) from 852,537 to 864,816
San Mateo County (+6802, +0.9%) from 758,333 to 765,135
Santa Clara County (+22004, +1.2%) from 1,896,040 to 1,918,044
Solano County (+5301, +1.2%) from 430,791 to 436,092
Sonoma County (+2472, +0.5%) from 499,674 to 502,146


San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA Metro Area grew by 60,152 (1.3%) from 4,595,980 (2014) to 4,656,132 (2015)
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area grew by 22,488 (1.2%) from 1,954,348 (2014) to 1,976,836 (2015)

Across the board, except for SF, the growth rates are down slightly from last year's estimates (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?p=6965871).

Since 2010, SF has grown by 59,581 people or 7.4% (from 805,235). Or, another way of looking at it: SF has grown by about 11,900 people each year since 2010. In terms of population density, the city has grown from 17,180 people per sq. mile in 2010 to 18,451 per sq. mile in 2015.

Here's all the Bay Area county estimates in one chart:

https://i.imgur.com/nzCIpg3.png

[slock]

Thanks for all the stats minesweeper. Very impressive growth.

In today's Business Journal, there was an ad for the Kilroy Flower Mart project with a rendering and website.

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g117/moses81/Flower-Mart-Kilroy-Realty.png (http://s54.photobucket.com/user/moses81/media/Flower-Mart-Kilroy-Realty.png.html)

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g117/moses81/SFFM.jpg (http://s54.photobucket.com/user/moses81/media/SFFM.jpg.html)

http://www.newsfflowermart.com/

[tech12]

Thanks for all the stats minesweeper. Very impressive growth.

In today's Business Journal, there was an ad for the Kilroy Flower Mart project with a rendering and website.

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g117/moses81/Flower-Mart-Kilroy-Realty.png (http://s54.photobucket.com/user/moses81/media/Flower-Mart-Kilroy-Realty.png.html)

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g117/moses81/SFFM.jpg (http://s54.photobucket.com/user/moses81/media/SFFM.jpg.html)

http://www.newsfflowermart.com/

I like it! Whatever happened to the idiots threatening a lawsuit or ballot measure or whatever over this project? Wasn't Art Agnos one of them?

[Jerry of San Fran]

Slock - thanks for the links & photos of the Kilroy Flower Mart ad in the Business Journal, quite a nice build if it happens as proposed. But there is still those (read as politicians from the old guard) who have objections to the project.

[viewguysf]

What happened to the top floor of 1601 Larkin?
http://www.ibadesign.com/#!1601-larkin/c1nbj

Here it is Andrew! I deliberately left the profusion of wires in too since we've discussed them several times.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1609/26032520476_c94739cf94_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/FEptnW)Larkin & Clay (https://flic.kr/p/FEptnW) by viewguysf (https://www.flickr.com/photos/viewguysf/), on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1546/25965922382_35d94778db_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/Fyw95W)Larkin & Clay (https://flic.kr/p/Fyw95W) by viewguysf (https://www.flickr.com/photos/viewguysf/), on Flickr

[viewguysf]

I like Olume better than most people seem to here; it's definitely more interesting than the Panoramic, one block east at Mission and Ninth.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1441/25991881781_ebcd59aba3_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/FAPbUM)Mission & 10th (https://flic.kr/p/FAPbUM) by viewguysf (https://www.flickr.com/photos/viewguysf/), on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1685/25455649563_52d08c4f14_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/EMqRKH)Mission & 10th (https://flic.kr/p/EMqRKH) by viewguysf (https://www.flickr.com/photos/viewguysf/), on Flickr

1400 Mission is a really nice BMR project!

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1671/25455651033_c5bbc40f6c_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/EMqSc4)Mission & 10th (https://flic.kr/p/EMqSc4) by viewguysf (https://www.flickr.com/photos/viewguysf/), on Flickr

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1579/25785366220_670cb8d309_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/FhyK2E)Mission & 10th (https://flic.kr/p/FhyK2E) by viewguysf (https://www.flickr.com/photos/viewguysf/), on Flickr

1390 Mission Low Income Family Housing is not a great building, yet it contributes to making this intersection finally feel like a neighborhood. Once something is built on the southeast corner empty lot, it will be complete.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1645/25785367950_ac57acf920_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/FhyKxu)Mission & 10th (https://flic.kr/p/FhyKxu) by viewguysf (https://www.flickr.com/photos/viewguysf/), on Flickr

Tenth from Mission to Market and beyond to Polk Street is all remarkably different than it was not so long ago. Jerry's Fox Plaza has become part of a revitalized 'hood for sure.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1680/25785370330_ba70ac24ce_h.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/FhyLfw)Mission & 10th (https://flic.kr/p/FhyLfw) by viewguysf (https://www.flickr.com/photos/viewguysf/), on Flickr

[Jerry of San Fran]

viewguysf - Olume is alright. I would like to have seem a slightly different shade of color and more contrast. Do notice the astonishing 4 light fixtures in the apartments. I have never seen anything like that before in an apartment.

The family housing at 10th & Mission Streets (I think it is Catholic Church Mercy housing) will never win my approval. It reminds me of a concrete fortress. The mass is much too bulky to my taste.

[david_h]

Was on one of those seaplane tours this weekend and took some photos that include new construction…

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1522/26029356571_f1cb0c1ebf_k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/FE8fRR)

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1614/26029364641_7a60ffc0f0_k.jpg (https://flic.kr/p/FE8ifZ)

[boyinthecity]

Thanks for posting. Nice angle and view. Personally, for cityscape shots, I appreciated overcast days. With some tweaks, those seaplane pictures are keepers...you should frame them.

http://www.panobug.com/helga/aerial-city-shot-march2016.jpg

source: david_h

[timbad]

Moscone redo...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1454/26026388616_1e8abe2d23_b.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1537/25985964411_f5f63649bd_b.jpg

[timbad]

Fulton and Gough in Hayes Valley has been uncovered...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1490/26125689415_abb35ab28f_b.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1600/25852840980_8094fe55b4_b.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1489/26059335551_2bb038ba70_b.jpg

not sure how significant this is, but the lot one over from Fourth, between Brannan and Bluxome Alley, has been partially fenced off. could be this (http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2014/12/designs-six-story-development-brannan-fourth.html). here's the Brannan side

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1612/25852847080_b73b74ac35_b.jpg

and Bluxome

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1463/26059360331_8cbd610ae2_b.jpg

and the view through the back fence

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1686/25520954324_2ec34bd19a_b.jpg

speaking of Bluxome, the little project toward the western end is about wrapped up

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1446/25523058903_593a5f254f_b.jpg

in Dogpatch, Indiana St at 18th is getting taller...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1678/26033089732_843f11ed55_b.jpg

and down the street at 20th:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1699/26125596575_75f116f082_b.jpg

[timbad]

Thanks for all the stats minesweeper. Very impressive growth.

In today's Business Journal, there was an ad for the Kilroy Flower Mart project with a rendering and website. ...

http://www.newsfflowermart.com/

please build that. this is the current view of the west side of Fifth looking toward Brannan

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1601/25523061033_fc6d3e093d_b.jpg

[timbad]

couple more looks at the 'back' of Solaire, on Clementina Alley, as it comes into focus

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1595/25597189874_4c21315903_b.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1495/26201948215_be823a54e8_b.jpg

and along the 'front', we have *two* rows of trees lining the Folsom sidewalk

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1579/26109497102_9b6f70f02a_b.jpg

[timbad]

since this project (http://www.dbarchitect.com/project_detail/155/Dr%20%20George%20W%20%20Davis%20Senior%20Building.html) in the Bayview was starting to get close to finishing, I thought I would get a closer look than my usual one from the passing Caltrain:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1584/26033107332_7c9bbf9792_b.jpg

this is on Carroll, just off of the west side of Third St

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1501/26135531801_9bcf4ff518_b.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1602/26135527841_17e8e9ac71_b.jpg

in this shot you can see that a rail spur off the Caltrain line has been retained in the middle of Carroll:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1500/25599182473_c225bc982e_b.jpg

across the street, on the north side of Carroll, it looks like they've created space for a community garden

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1470/26201850545_500192e053_b.jpg

[timbad]

since this project (http://www.dbarchitect.com/project_detail/155/Dr%20%20George%20W%20%20Davis%20Senior%20Building.html) in the Bayview was starting to get close to finishing, I thought I would get a closer look than my usual one from the passing Caltrain...

to follow up, here is a look at this project and its neighbor to the east (on the left), 5800 Third St.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1673/26152937912_48fc76a08a_b.jpg

and that project (5800), although somewhat plain itself, includes a quite pleasant pedestrian experience on Third...

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1612/26152880952_955077332f_b.jpg

and which, despite its pleasantness, has failed in its retail component, at least for now. this is where the first supermarket in the Bayview had been located, but as far as I could see when I walked by, all storefronts here were now empty. part of this might be location - this is a bit south from the main heart of Bayview's retail corridor.

[timbad]

the skyline as seen from Bernal Heights

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1645/25640508814_4eafe2c7d2_b.jpg

[robertjhajek]

the skyline as seen from Bernal Heights

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1645/25640508814_4eafe2c7d2_b.jpg


Fillmore almost looks like a park extending out with all of those trees!

[fflint]

That is Folsom Street.

Great pic!

[SFTransplant]

I wish every street in SF had greenery like that...

[mousquet]

Greenery may well be the finest thing on Earth, it's been in abundance by nature and we'll save it all anyhow. We'll behead anyone to threaten it.

So I'm actually more concerned about materials created by man and their efficiency. The posts right above ain't bad at all, eh...

[cmak]

Fillmore almost looks like a park extending out with all of those trees!

you mean Folsom but yeah, looks nice

[mt_climber13]

I wish every street in SF had greenery like that...

Yes but there would be no sunlight. Hyde St. is like this with lots of bushy trees, but the apartments facing the street are dark like caves.

This is one of the many reasons I prefer palm trees. They are slender and add some beautiful greenery while being very hardy and not blocking out the sunlight. They also don't require much water.

[SFTransplant]

Yes but there would be no sunlight. Hyde St. is like this with lots of bushy trees, but the apartments facing the street are dark like caves.

This is one of the many reasons I prefer palm trees. They are slender and add some beautiful greenery while being very hardy and not blocking out the sunlight. They also don't require much water.

If they were deciduous trees, they'd provide shelter from the heat in the summer and then let light in during the winter... you know, like in every other metropolitan area.

[robertjhajek]

I'm from Atlanta so I love tree cover

It acts as a natural rain jacket

[timbad]

can't remember if I've mentioned this before, but for the last few weeks there have been construction signs on the fences around 100 Hooper (http://hundredhooper.com) in Showplace Square, across Seventh St from Mission Bay. a few weeks before that the storage space company was cleared off the site. this article (http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/100-Hooper-site-acquired-for-complex-to-house-6371561.php) from July 2015 said it would get going last year already. heavy PDR use

... and this week, heavy equipment has appeared on site! as seen looking west from the train on Thursday, moving along Seventh St, north to south:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1452/25726596154_d4f58604c3_b.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1579/26239045332_7fdb1e9e63_b.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1706/25726599794_e408e2985f_b.jpg

immediately to the north of this site is a Recology facility that I really wish could be relocated, given how this neighborhood is changing. now very much out of place there.

and adjacent on the south, seen in left foreground in the last pic, is the plot that belongs to CA College of the Arts, which is looking to develop it (https://www.cca.edu/news/2016/03/30/letter-president-spring-2016) as part of an expansion/consolidation of their Oakland campus, it sounds like. from that link:

Update on Campus Planning
The CCA community is hard at work developing plans to realize this vision. Last June we completed the first phase of work with Gensler and MKThink to produce a strategic framework for planning. The yearlong process included input from faculty, students, staff, alumni, and trustees.

Read the published report titled Framing the Future.

More than 300 faculty, staff, students, and alumni have been involved to date in working with Jensen Architects to develop the next phase of the plan, which is to delineate requirements for the space types outlined in Framing the Future.

After completing this work, we’ll be ready to undertake an architecture selection process as the next step in reshaping the San Francisco campus.

To guide and ground our goals, CCA staff and faculty leaders created an extension to the operational plan made six years ago, the Dream Big Extension 2016-20.

As in the past, no tuition dollars will be used for campus planning, building, or expansion efforts. We are in the very early stages of a fundraising campaign that will make these goals a reality.

[Chicago3rd]

If they were deciduous trees, they'd provide shelter from the heat in the summer and then let light in during the winter... you know, like in every other metropolitan area.


Heat in the summer? Thank God the streets didn't have too much tree coverage.....all the fog. And then when it isn't foggy the light in San Francisco is incredible.....wouldn't want any of that to change....especially since San Francisco, thank God, isn't "every city"

[viewguysf]

Heat in the summer? Thank God the streets didn't have too much tree coverage.....all the fog. And then when it isn't foggy the light in San Francisco is incredible.....wouldn't want any of that to change....especially since San Francisco, thank God, isn't "every city"

It got up to 86 this week!

[timbad]

since this project (http://www.dbarchitect.com/project_detail/155/Dr%20%20George%20W%20%20Davis%20Senior%20Building.html) in the Bayview was starting to get close to finishing, I thought I would get a closer look than my usual one from the passing Caltrain...

update: this was getting much greener as more landscaping was going in. this is the usual view from the train again, on Friday

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1575/26058636380_f0f9fb0ecb_b.jpg

[timbad]

...
not sure how significant this is, but the lot one over from Fourth, between Brannan and Bluxome Alley, has been partially fenced off. could be this (http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2014/12/designs-six-story-development-brannan-fourth.html). ...

confirmed; as of tonight the site (parking lot) is completely fenced off and the posted building permit is for a 6-story office building.

[timbad]

Potrero 1010, corner of Seventh and 16th. the silver corner building is not at its best on gray days

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1549/26338910556_91078b4186_b.jpg

here it was from the train on Thursday

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1549/26305508516_4b7171f738_b.jpg

the corner project at Franklin and Page again, not looking anywhere near as bad as its rendering

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1710/26272516372_aab4677547_b.jpg

the one at Market, 15th, Sanchez, etc

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1519/26091997430_41a8dc4088_b.jpg

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1470/26338914676_ac7924bf2c_b.jpg

55 Laguna is coming along. this is the sidewalk along the top (west side, Buchanan):

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1657/25760013564_bf1d17fb46_b.jpg

the grand stair was open from that side when I walked by today. this is the plaza above the stair

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1455/25760018364_91b8c3d700_b.jpg

wider angle

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1536/26092010160_50daf446db_b.jpg

same plaza, looking further north along Buchanan

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1509/25762120803_8230e09648_b.jpg

looking back 'out' to the west from the plaza

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1566/26092013840_6f3fd125d3_b.jpg

looking down the stair toward the first landing

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1701/26272533502_8e9690fa3e_b.jpg

looking down from first landing

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1688/26272509572_8bb42cf8c5_b.jpg

ongoing work on the existing SE corner building

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1477/26092043130_342c13305c_b.jpg

looking back up

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1626/26298640121_fe09c0353a_b.jpg

the view through the mid-block north-south walkway, looking north

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1673/26298659071_1fb779db2c_b.jpg

the Laguna side

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1526/26338993476_cc081def7b_b.jpg

the sidewalk on Laguna

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1595/26298673841_8b96e2b66c_b.jpg

Haight St side, with renovated existing building

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1538/25760032744_3e32200d59_b.jpg

[colemonkee]

Love that staircase. Would be the perfect place to hide a little sidewalk cafe halfway up. Would be a hidden neighborhood gem.

[cv94117]

the corner project at Franklin and Page again, not looking anywhere near as bad as its rendering

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1710/26272516372_aab4677547_b.jpg

wider angle

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1536/26092010160_50daf446db_b.jpg

Just a couple of comments - went by the Franklin & Page building this weekend (One Franklin?). Looks OK but unless it will change, the color of the stucco on the first floor totally clashes with what appears to be the finished facade on the upper floors.

And am I the only person who is sick of these cheesy/tacky names plastered all over buildings. Alchemy? What does that even mean an why does the signage have to be so big. What's wrong with just referring to a building by it's address?

[Busy Bee]

It's all marketing my dear Watson. I find solace in knowing that many will eventually be removed once the signage is inevitably vandalized.

[boyinthecity]

maybe a day late and a dollar short regarding comments about this building because the thread is closed.....

the new linkedin building seems to be quite vilified.
when john king writes a negative review, it kinda speaks volumes.

yet!!!! when viewed from the sidewalk (directly below the building) and next to the wood paneled lobby,

222 is quite interesting.

here's my take on it which I've tried to capture.

http://02de304.netsolhost.com/helga/linkedin-artsy.jpg
source: me

[colemonkee]

That's the best shot of it that I've seen!

[1977]

maybe a day late and a dollar short regarding comments about this building because the thread is closed.....

the new linkedin building seems to be quite vilified.
when john king writes a negative review, it kinda speaks volumes.

yet!!!! when viewed from the sidewalk (directly below the building) and next to the wood paneled lobby,

222 is quite interesting.

here's my take on it which I've tried to capture.

http://02de304.netsolhost.com/helga/linkedin-artsy.jpg
source: me

That is awesome! A building should be modeled after that perspective.

[tall/awkward]

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/04/san-franciscos-hub-heights-2-0-and-potential-for-a-600-foot-tower.html

[jbm]

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/04/san-franciscos-hub-heights-2-0-and-potential-for-a-600-foot-tower.html

while more height and units are nice, i wonder if they've considered whether the taller buildings will be able to pass the required wind tests for the area. IIRC 1 Van Ness (now 1 Oak) was delayed for awhile b/c its designs had too large on impact on street level wind around market x van ness.

[timbad]

... and this week, heavy equipment has appeared on site! as seen looking west from the train on Thursday, moving along Seventh St, north to south:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1452/25726596154_d4f58604c3_b.jpg

...

easy come, easy go. that equipment has left again, and all seems quiet.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1564/26449190426_9a94afe322_b.jpg

[timbad]

a bit more on the expanding pedestrian realm downtown... here's another look at Beale St, north from Harrison, where work has been going on as both Lumina and the MTC Headquarters (in the right foreground) wrap up.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1665/25872402383_af5119a3e6_b.jpg

at ground level looking south:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1452/26382920182_fd152f6000_b.jpg

similar work has also been happening on the other side of the block, on Main. also looking south:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1452/26475238295_bea9982168_b.jpg

back to the MTC building, its makeover from the outside doesn't look like much more than a paint-job (to me at least), with the exception that it does have a new fancy front door on Beale:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1570/25872400713_0301694d18_b.jpg

[timbad]

various other things from yesterday...

speaking of wider sidewalks, there is also a less-dramatic one in front of the new Splunk building on Brannan:

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1595/25870351094_c79ccc8e31_b.jpg

the building itself looks about done from the outside

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1715/26202370520_8f12ab2eb4_b.jpg

at 1 Henry Adams in Showplace Square, we're starting to be able to see glimpses of the skin through the shroud. this is the east side

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1622/25870345334_2c2de78623_b.jpg

the west side

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1514/26475223875_1bc76c67e5_b.jpg

and a close-up

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1631/26202350980_3cf2feae00_b.jpg

at Potrero 1010, the form for what I think will be a grassy sitting structure is visible near the 16th St sidewalk between the two buildings

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1520/26409072171_825f0390f0_b.jpg

the project at Third and 23rd St

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1522/25870191454_7acdda6567_b.jpg

wider context shot, looking west up 23rd toward Potrero Hill. (the fencing on the right is related to the work PGE is doing on the power line connection from this area to the fortress of doom on Folsom)

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1584/25872221983_1b0800e4fe_b.jpg