[peanut gallery]

As excited as I am about Transbay, I'm almost as excited about this one. Not so much for the design, which is fine by me, but for what I hope it does to this stretch of Market. There is a virtual line around 6th where Market's built environment transforms from slick to seedy. I have no problem with the Tenderloin, but I'd like to see Market, as SF's main street, built and occupied (meaning the businesses not the people) to a better level than this stretch currently meets.

As much as I dismiss developer's often overstated claims that suchandsuch building will be a catalyst for a neighborhood, I think this one can actually do that. It's good to see the first signs of this project getting started.