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[Pedestrian]

Tishman Speyer takes on partner for 1.2 million-square-foot project in Central SoMa
By Ted Andersen – Digital Editor, San Francisco Business Times
Jan 13, 2020, 2:45pm PST Updated Jan 13, 2020, 3:15pm PST

Tishman Speyer will team with Mitsui Fudosan America to develop more than a million square feet at its Brannan Square project in Central SoMa.

Terms of the partnership, announced Monday, were not disclosed.

Construction of the first two buildings at Brannan Square, a three-building office complex slated for 598 Brannan St., is expected to start by late summer with tenants moving in by fall 2022. The three buildings will total about 1.2 million square feet.

The buildings, ranging from 10 to 13 stories, are designed to serve as one of the centerpieces of San Francisco's plan to redevelop the area between Second and Sixth streets — known as Central SoMa — into a jobs and housing hub with $6 billion in new office and housing developments.

New York-based Tishman won approval from the city last year for the complex, which would have room for nearly 5,000 workers. Besides more than 700,000 square feet of office space, it will include 65,000 square feet of light industrial and retail space, a child care center, open space and land donated to the city for future affordable housing . . . .

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranc...NDek8ifQ%3D%3D

[Pedestrian]

Additional renderings:




https://www.sfchronicle.com/business...photo-17610029


https://socketsite.com/wp-content/up...-Site-Plan.jpg

[SLO]

I like the offsets for uniqueness and the color for contrast. Solid.

[bossabreezes]

Really like this one!

[timbad]

the intersection of 5th and Brannan could see construction of substantial, solid, good-looking projects on three of its corners in the next couple years, a new hot-spot. I think I've mentioned before, as a neighborhood resident, that area currently feels like a black hole to me (not because it has an irresistible attraction!!): very close by, and I almost never pass through there. so this and the other development feel like they would be transformational in that sense.

[Pedestrian]

And in addition to having already secured approvals, building permits and an office space allocation for the first phase/building of the modern three-building development to rise up to 150 feet in height on the Brannan Street site, which will yield over 920,000 square feet of new office space and 65,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and/or Production Distribution and Repair (PDR) space when completed, Tishman Speyer is positioned to receive an office space allocation for the second phase/building of the development next week.

http://socketsite.com/archives/2020/...ak-ground.html

[timbad]

I forgot to look specifically, but when I walked past this site yesterday I didn't notice any demolition activity yet

[timbad]

OK, it was bugging me that I forgot to look again when I went by here the other day, so today I made a point of going and looking. no demo yet

5M in the distance



looking back (south), Flower Mart site on the right

[timbad]

at least from the Brannan side, still no demo apparent

[Iceman12]

The buildings on this site have been fully demolished. Looks as bare as the Bay Club site across the street.

[timbad]

Originally Posted by Iceman12

The buildings on this site have been fully demolished. Looks as bare as the Bay Club site across the street.

indeed, that was fast!

here's the view from across Brannan



and looking through the fence



and the new view looking west up Brannan, with this site on the right, 88 Bluxome (former Bay Club) on the left, and Flower Mart just beyond. it's hard to imagine this as a bustling intersection, but hopefully that is what we'll have here in a couple, three years

[homebucket]

S.F. neighborhood was supposed to become an extension of downtown. Instead, it’s in a ‘deep freeze’
By Laura Waxmann, J.K. Dineen
July 15, 2024

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The idea of the Central SoMa Plan — an intense eight-year rezoning effort approved at the tail end of 2018 that tied extra building height and density to $2 billion in fees for new sidewalks, parks, affordable housing, transit and other public benefits — was to extend downtown’s skyline toward SoMa, and down to the Caltrain terminal at Fourth and King streets.

The plan was supposed to deliver 8,800 housing units and 8 million square feet of modern office space for 32,000 workers. Eight key projects would define the new neighborhood with parks and streetscapes subsidized by a new generation of shiny corporate headquarters. The Central Subway line would whisk workers and residents to Union Square or Chinatown.

Six years later the plan remains a dream, leaving behind a neighborhood in limbo, suspended between yesterday’s blue-collar industries and today’s emerging technologies. Gone are many of the warehouses and automotive businesses and artist studios that filled the area, priced out by land speculation or demolished in the frenzy of pre-pandemic optimism. It was all to make way for what was to come.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/artic...n-19522607.php