SAN FRANCISCO | 530 Howard Street | 844 FT | 72 FLOORS
 

I believe the following Business Times article makes it reasonable to start a thread for this as a "proposal":

Here are renderings from the architect's (Heller-Manus) site:

http://63.240.68.122/FirmFiles/25/im...St%20copy1.jpg

http://63.240.68.122/FirmFiles/25/im...d%20Aerial.jpg

http://63.240.68.122/FirmFiles/25/im...wardLobby1.jpg

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^^^It's as dead or undead as the spec office market. Time will tell.

A year and a half after my last posting here, time has now told us.

no way this is getting built any time soon with all the open office space in the city, though it would have been a nice addition to the area (and it's silhouette is still shown in the the transbay video).

Updates...
 

What's the plan for this site now? And where are the official renders?

update
 

just to bring this thread a bit more up-to-date, here was socketsite from 2011, when Planning was considering approving the existing parking lot on the site for 2 more years, and from this past June, a blurb mentioning that the site has been acquired by an affiliate of Crescent Heights. no word on plans, tho.

"coming soon"?
 

was a bit surprised to see this on the site when I walked by yesterday:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3723/9...d4423bbd_b.jpg

maybe one of our super-sleuths can come up with the renderings to post here

Nice! As usual, this is a huge improvement over the original Heller Manus proposal--open the link in timbad's 11/11/12 post to see it.

Wow, nice find! It looks like this new proposal takes full advantage of the new 450' height limit added by the Transbay Plan. Just eyeballing that rendering, it looks like it's 40+ stories.

The Transbay Plan suggested that the building on this parcel could have a direct connection to the Transit Center, but none is depicted here.

The rear design reminds me of a skinny residential tower in Manhattan, although that one is on a much skinner lot.

That is a really cool building.

Great find timbad, another one to block my view of the Bay Bridge. J/k, but its almost ridiculous how fast these buildings are coming out of the woodwork. Imagine this area in 5-10 years...an entirely new extension of downtown for SF.

Oh man, that rendering is awesome! In an era of dozens of exciting new projects, this may have jumped to the top of my radar, simply because the narrow footprint will become more prevalent down the line once the bigger lots are all snapped up. Would love to see this get built and see how it looks in the skyline.

Any more info on this? Based on the balcony inclusion and design, it looks like this iteration will be focused primarily on condos?

Nice find, timbad. Kind of reminds me of a better designed and taller Blu.

Yes, great find. I love how slender this one looks from the south/north.

The Planning Commission is set to approve a continuation of the "temporary" parking lot at the hearing on July 11:

Maybe we will get an update from the developer on a new timeline for this project?

socketsite chimes in, but not much new info

timbad, you beat Socketsite to it by an entire month!

An article in the Business Times reveals that the designer is Glenn Rescalvo of Handel Architects, who also designed NEMA. It also says:

:) and I got no credit from Business Times, what's up with that?! :P

The previous hearing regarding the parking lot got postponed from July 11 to August 15. Now it's set to be approved at this Thursday's hearing. Here's the planning PDF.

They are asking for the surface parking lot to be approved for an additional two years (the maximum possible).

It also offers some details on what Crescent Heights is planning for the site:

in a fantasy world that tower would be built without any parking. thanks for the info

socketsite blurbs, not much new info in addition to what minesweeper already posted, except they say it is still 3 years away

Just for fun, I took a shot of the space where this will rise:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5473/9...aff3817f_b.jpg

No new renderings, but Crescent Heights has the project up on their site now and it says:

I hope they follow through with that. It'll be great to have another building directly connected to the park.

Revisions just submitted on 1/20/16. Two concepts: one all residential, the other residential and hotel. Residential/hotel is 535' to structural top, all residential is 525'.

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...35.17%20PM.png

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...35.37%20PM.png

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...35.51%20PM.png

http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g1...36.04%20PM.png

https://aca.accela.com/ccsf/Cap/CapD...gencyCode=CCSF

Nice! I'm looking forward to this one.

Didn't know this was going to be so tall, title says 23 floors so I assumed it would be about 250' which is a yawner, 535' is quite impressive, would be as tall as ORH 2. This is one of my favorites and have been patiently waiting for this to get built. It's gonna look awesome from Transbay Terminal Park

Intriguing. I still can't help but wonder what will happen if this building is filled with wealthy NIMBYs, and plans for Parcel F are developed to tower over its west side...

^ yeah, we should be doing a rain dance for hotel and rental over condo with this one.

A couple points of interest from the linked document:

• The lot is zoned for 450' in height but they are asking for an extra 10% height increase in the upper tower per § 263.9. That brings the roof height to 495' and well over 500' with the mechanical screening
• The all-residential option is 48 stories, while the hotel option has 45 floors
• Both options have a pedestrian bridge to the transit center
• In addition to the ground-floor retail frontage on Howard St, there's a retail spot on the same floor as the pedestrian bridge

<-- that was Aug 2013, so three years would have been pretty soon, but socketsite blurbs again. two more years. sigh.

thread title update needed
 

the thread title needs updating - this is to be 48 floors as currently proposed, 495' not including mechanical

https://d2kcmk0r62r1qk.cloudfront.ne...endering_5.jpg

New rendering available for Crescent Heights' project. Proposal is now for 48 stories and 334 units. More details: https://www.buzzbuzzhome.com/us/524-howard

:soon:

I like the thin structure and cant wait to see the park in person!

Looks great! Love the connection btwn the Transbay Park and retail on the 7th floor.

Are there any plans to raze 530 and 540 Howard for another tower? Would be cool to have a canyon wall rise up on that side of the park, since it's not possible on the other side thanks to the squat Foundry Square.

There are other nice renderings at the bottom of this:

http://commissions.sfplanning.org/cp...XGPRSHDVAR.pdf

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<-- that was Apr 2016, so two years would have been pretty soon, but socketsite blurbs again. two more years. sigh.

It's not 100% clear from the article, but it looks like this project as designed and approved won't be happening.

The Registry (subscription) had an item about this that stated the project was just purchased from Crescent Heights and was being combined with the adjacent building.

It's separate from the 540 Howard design we've seen, but here's a quote: "The buyers, who are the owners of the neighboring 530 Howard building, intend to combine the two parcels for greater efficiency and advance an appropriate design for one of the final significant developments in the neighborhood."

https://news.theregistrysf.com/524-h...stor-for-78mm/

Damn :( was so excited for this. Another squat box instead.

socketsite blurbs again

woohoooooo!

socketsite

Any updates on this one?

Looks like this one remains in limbo.

https://socketsite.com/archives/2022...on-sought.html

A reminder of what could've been.

https://socketsite.com/wp-content/up...endering-1.jpg

https://socketsite.com/archives/2022...on-sought.html

Such a shame. At what point do we create a use it or lose it policy?

Separately, anyone have a clue what's going on with Parcel F (next door)? I biked by this weekend and it's still a pile of rubble. Hines is out getting approvals for several other parcels, but this continues to stay untouched.