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Pedestrian Jan 10, 2020 8:14 AM

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Plans for SF’s 4th-tallest building win key OK as developer resolves opposition
Roland Li Jan. 9, 2020 Updated: Jan. 9, 2020 9:31 p.m.

A proposal to build San Francisco’s fourth-tallest building, the final major project in the Transbay district, received key approvals Thursday.

The Planning Commission approved the 61-story tower at 546 Howard St., a project that now requires final approval from the Board of Supervisors.

The tower, to be built on a site know as Parcel F, would include 165 condos, 189 hotel rooms and 325,000 square feet of office space leased by Salesforce. The project would also help fund 337 affordable apartments a few blocks to the east.

Chinatown activists opposed the project late last year because of a shadow it would cast on Willy “Woo Woo” Wong playground. The city’s Recreation and Park Department determined that the shadow — from 8 a.m. to 8:20 a.m., November to late January — is within limits allowed by the 2011 Transbay plan.

. . . the project’s land use attorney, said at Thursday’s hearing that an agreement had been reached with the opponents . . . . Julie Chase, a spokeswoman for Parcel F developers Hines, Urban Pacific and Goldman Sachs, said no payments were made . . . .

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/01/42/...0/11/940x0.jpg

https://www.sfchronicle.com/business...photo-18853127

theskythelimit Jan 10, 2020 9:30 AM

I find it highly suspicious that the Chinatown group would just walk away without any financial gain. I think there is more to that story than what is being said.

Pedestrian Jan 10, 2020 4:46 PM

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Originally Posted by theskythelimit (Post 8795591)
I find it highly suspicious that the Chinatown group would just walk away without any financial gain. I think there is more to that story than what is being said.

Obviously they are getting something. It just may not be cash.

homebucket Jan 10, 2020 5:37 PM

Whatever it was, I'm just glad it got resolved (relatively) quickly.

gillynova Jan 10, 2020 5:42 PM

Is it just me or is that a new rendering?

BobbyMucho Jan 10, 2020 7:24 PM

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Originally Posted by gillynova (Post 8795908)
Is it just me or is that a new rendering?

I think it is.

It looks like the western side has been 'refined' a bit; with a more angularity and curtain wall.

Subtle, but I'm not sure it's better for the overall design or not...

homebucket Jan 10, 2020 7:45 PM

It's like a modern version of 595 Market.

Pedestrian Jan 10, 2020 9:10 PM

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Originally Posted by gillynova (Post 8795908)
Is it just me or is that a new rendering?

I don't think I've seen it before--that's why I picked it out of the 5 images in the article.

craigs Jan 10, 2020 9:24 PM

Here's another cool rendering from the article linked above:

https://s.hdnux.com/photos/76/73/77/...ery_xlarge.jpg

When completed, the building will offer direct private access to the park. Also, people will apparently be driving up to the entrace in their 15-year old Audis.

homebucket Jan 10, 2020 9:45 PM

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Originally Posted by craigs (Post 8796201)
When completed, the building will offer direct private access to the park. Also, people will apparently be driving up to the entrace in their 15-year old Audis.

Here's the previous render:
https://socketsite.com/wp-content/up...a-Entrance.jpg

https://socketsite.com/wp-content/up...ast-Facade.jpg

https://socketsite.com/archives/2017...edesigned.html

gillynova Jan 10, 2020 10:28 PM

Pretty cool spotting the differences between the previous renderings and the current ones

Looks like they removed the ground level fountain, added an elevator next to the street level and rose the glass on the bridge connecting the building to the park.

Pedestrian Jan 10, 2020 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by craigs (Post 8796201)
Here's another cool rendering from the article linked above . . . .
When completed, the building will offer direct private access to the park. Also, people will apparently be driving up to the entrace in their 15-year old Audis.

Yeah, but we've definitely seen that one (post 189).

pseudolus Jan 11, 2020 1:11 AM

"But Livable City’s Tom Radulovich is leading the charge to correct a major defect: the new building will also include lots of car parking. And providing access to that parking, at least according to current plans, means destroying one of the few car-free spaces in the city."

https://sf.streetsblog.org/2020/01/1...eet-in-danger/

MyCitySFO Jan 11, 2020 2:44 PM

OK guys. question. If it is going to be built to 800 ft then that would make it the 5th tallest (4th is 181 Fremont at 802 ft i believe with that spire thing) ? right? or is going to be 806 ft? anyone know what the final height will be? Just curious.

Pedestrian Jan 12, 2020 7:16 AM

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Originally Posted by pseudolus (Post 8796466)
"But Livable City’s Tom Radulovich is leading the charge to correct a major defect: the new building will also include lots of car parking. And providing access to that parking, at least according to current plans, means destroying one of the few car-free spaces in the city."

https://sf.streetsblog.org/2020/01/1...eet-in-danger/

So after contributing to the implosion of BART, Tom Radulovich made a soft landing. Nice to know.

SFView Jan 12, 2020 7:50 AM

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Originally Posted by MyCitySFO (Post 8796652)
OK guys. question. If it is going to be built to 800 ft then that would make it the 5th tallest (4th is 181 Fremont at 802 ft i believe with that spire thing) ? right? or is going to be 806 ft? anyone know what the final height will be? Just curious.

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The Project includes the construction of a new 61-story mixed-use building reaching a height of 749’-10” tall (799’-9”) inclusive of rooftop screening/mechanical equipment)
Yes, Parcel F will be about 2 feet shorter than 181 Fremont measured to the highest structural points respectively.

See "Project Description" near bottom of page 2 of 454:
https://commissions.sfplanning.org/c...PGPA_DRAFT.pdf

viewguysf Jan 12, 2020 8:18 AM

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Originally Posted by SFView (Post 8797173)
Yes, Parcel F will be about 2 feet shorter than 181 Fremont measured to the highest structural points respectively.

It’s going to appear taller on the skyline though because of its bulk.

SFView Jan 14, 2020 3:10 AM

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Originally Posted by viewguysf (Post 8797180)
It’s going to appear taller on the skyline though because of its bulk.

Agreed, and as it should be as intended by Planning and Parcel F's designers.

SLO Jan 15, 2020 3:46 AM

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Originally Posted by gillynova (Post 8796285)
Pretty cool spotting the differences between the previous renderings and the current ones

Looks like they removed the ground level fountain, added an elevator next to the street level and rose the glass on the bridge connecting the building to the park.

Its a lot better, those first four floors are quite a bit different and the awning at street level has glass panels to let light through...

Pedestrian Jan 16, 2020 7:05 AM

More on Tom Radulovich and the Parcel F garage issue:

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. . . Radulovich’s pitch has so far gotten a chilly reception from officials. Haney, who has loudly championed bike lanes and walkable streets, would not commit to supporting Radulovich’s request.

“I’m still exploring if there are ways to move the parking garage entrance or reduce the parking overall,” he wrote in a text message. “I’m very supportive of more spaces for pedestrians, and would like to maintain and grow those spaces, while still moving forward with this important housing development.”

Cars currently can enter the Transbay section of Natoma at either end, except they can only travel a short distance before reaching a line of bollards that gird the plaza. Beyond those bollards is a small urban nirvana: food trucks sell global cuisine, people eat at patio tables or drift along the pavement, talking on their cell phones. Transbay buses glide along a bridge overhead, which resembles a futuristic movie prop.

The planned development — which still needs approvals from the Board of Supervisors — is known as Parcel F, a large construction site flanking the south edge of the plaza. That area is already so packed that the only place to put the parking garage was beneath the street — cars would enter on a lift and be parked by valet attendants.

In a city that discourages driving but embraces density near transit hubs, this seemed like the best compromise, officials with knowledge of the project said. Parcel F would add a complex mix of offices, high-end condos and the hotel, and you couldn’t serve all those people with just a white-curb loading zone. In addition to the parking garage, the plans would cut part of the curb on Howard Street so trucks or forklifts could pull into a loading dock — another feature that Radulovich opposes.

People who were lingering outside the Transbay Center on their lunch breaks Wednesday generally seemed ambivalent. Most didn’t object to the parking garage, so long as it stays underground and out of sight.

“I like that part,” said Seth Weidman, who works in a nearby startup on Second Street. “Definitely the worst thing about garages is that they take up space that could be reserved for (other) buildings.”

Heidi Duran also shrugged. “If the cars are just leaving in the morning and coming back to park in the evening, it shouldn’t affect us,” she said.

The one thing that did raise eyebrows was the concept of pushing all the freight and drop-offs over to Howard Street. What’s good for one artery could conceivably add misery to another: imagine a situation in which, say, two 55-foot articulated trucks are double-parked in the middle of a busy road.

Weidman was more concerned about what would happen to the bike lane if cars were constantly pulling up alongside it to disgorge passengers. He rides his bike to work every day.

“If I had to catch an Uber from here,” he said, pointing to the construction site, “I’d rather have it pick me up in the garage.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/...g-14978618.php


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