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

[Jerry of San Fran]

09/08/2013 - Work was being done on Sunday on the top floor. I could not do what they are doing, working on the edge! The top of the building might be quite interesting. It looks like the design has changed from the first drawing, which I notice is not unusual.


Crescent Heights Development - San Fancisco by Apollo's Light, on Flickr

[c33f]

Originally Posted by simms3_redux

The 14-15 floor Hampton Inn going up at ~5th and Mission. I love this little area (that alleyway and all of the restored Market St buildings...they back up so nicely to that alley) and cannot wait til they renovate the old mint...so much potential and the 5th and Folsom resi developments will bring a lot of new residents to the area.






350 Mission viewed from Millennium tower. That crane is nearly ~360 ft up, and is not a Schering Liebherr luffing tower crane...the crane rental comes from Bigge, which is "big" in the western USA, and after invesgtigating its website I have determined it has to be a Potain luffing crane...probably the one of the models at my links below.

http://www.biggetowercrane.com/tower-crane-charts/POTAIN-MR605.pdf

http://www.biggetowercrane.com/tower-crane-charts/MR405.pdf

All sorts of crane information...Schering's site also has a lot of crane information for the nerds who are interested.






No real visible progress at ORH North or 45 Lansing...the lone excavator at 222 Second has made some progress and of course they are digging like crazy at Lumina and making fast progress there.

The last image of the post reads "Liebherr" on the luffing crane tip for 350 Mission. 535 Mission is the site that has a red Potain luffer from Bigge. Bigge may have recently acquired a Liebherr luffing into their inventory and/or their website may not be updated to reflect it. These Liebherr luffings don't seem to appear much on the West Coast; only saw one on 1918 Eighth in Seattle couple years ago prior to the two in SF that appeared this year. Perhaps there will be more luffings used in SF as the buildings get more crowded, like NYC with its numerous Favco Group luffings (there was one on the East Span Bay Bridge).

Hopeful to see some updates to these SF projects during the weekend and shoot some pics.

[minesweeper]

Regarding 2001 Market, it has a new name and address, 38 Dolores, and a website to go with it: http://38doloressf.com/

It looks like they are jumping on the bandwagon of trying to get the lucky number 8 in their address.

[Jerry of San Fran]

Originally Posted by minesweeper

Regarding 2001 Market, it has a new name and address, 38 Dolores, and a website to go with it: http://38doloressf.com/

It looks like they are jumping on the bandwagon of trying to get the lucky number 8 in their address.

I did not know the number 8 was a lucky number. Maybe that is why I never hit it big in Las Vegas. I would think that a Market Street address would have been more desireable.

The web link advertises rental condos. Never heard that one before.

[IMBY]

I was on Emporis.com one nite, looking at the skyscrapers being built in China, and, puzzlingly, I saw a number of those skyscrapers are topped off at 88 stories, with a big spire on top! The Chinese/Asians have their superstition with numbers!

I read, one time, when the Bank of China tower (IM Pei) was built, the instructions were that there were to be no measurements in that building with 9's in them, and they hired a geomancer to find the right location for the building.

Here, in Las Vegas, catering ever more to Asians/Chinese, any number of the 4's have been removed from the hotel elevators. If you go take an elevator ride at the Wynn or the Palazzo, from 39, you skip all the way up to 50, bypassing the 4's. It's advertised as a 64 story hotel tower, but not so, it's only 54 stories!

Of course, we have our own superstitions with 13's, but, using numerology, 1 + 3 = 4! And going further with Astrology, 4 resonates to the sign Scorpio!

[theskythelimit]

Originally Posted by IMBY

I was on Emporis.com one nite, looking at the skyscrapers being built in China, and, puzzlingly, I saw a number of those skyscrapers are topped off at 88 stories, with a big spire on top! The Chinese/Asians have their superstition with numbers!

I read, one time, when the Bank of China tower (IM Pei) was built, the instructions were that there were to be no measurements in that building with 9's in them, and they hired a geomancer to find the right location for the building.

Here, in Las Vegas, catering ever more to Asians/Chinese, any number of the 4's have been removed from the hotel elevators. If you go take an elevator ride at the Wynn or the Palazzo, from 39, you skip all the way up to 50, bypassing the 4's. It's advertised as a 64 story hotel tower, but not so, it's only 54 stories!

Of course, we have our own superstitions with 13's, but, using numerology, 1 + 3 = 4! And going further with Astrology, 4 resonates to the sign Scorpio!

Just an FYI. The Chinese or Mandarin speakers in general do not like the number 4 is because pronouncing it sounds like the word Death.

[Jerry of San Fran]

IMBY - thanks for the info. about the numbers game - hysterical, my first laugh for the day! I'm like Dr. Spock on Star Trek, rational, and I find it all very puzzling. Humans!

[ElDuderino]

New video showing the future skyline. It includes all the new projects going up and proposed for the transbay terminal and rincon hill areas. Pretty cool...

Video Link

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2013/...re_transit_center_and_skyline_fully.html[/QUOTE]

[tall/awkward]

That video should win an Oscar for best short film!

[Busy Bee]

What is with all this Transbay Transit Center nonsense? Have they officially changed its name? What a way to screw up something good, Transbay Terminal had the colloquial permanence of the Gibraltar Rock, TTC just sounds like a Tampa bus station.

[peanut gallery]

Rincon Hill in general, and Fremont St and Folsom St in particular, will see massive improvement. And the overall effect on the skyline will be transformative. On the negative side, the floor of the terminal is seriously hideous. John King wrote yesterday that the funicular is out, to be replaced by gondolas. Didn't notice that reflected in the video however.

[mt_climber13]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

What is with all this Transbay Transit Center nonsense? Have they officially changed its name? What a way to screw up something good, Transbay Terminal had the colloquial permanence of the Gibraltar Rock, TTC just sounds like a Tampa bus station.

Still sounds better than "bus stop," which is all it really is.

[Onn]

Originally Posted by peanut gallery

Rincon Hill in general, and Fremont St and Folsom St in particular, will see massive improvement. And the overall effect on the skyline will be transformative. On the negative side, the floor of the terminal is seriously hideous. John King wrote yesterday that the funicular is out, to be replaced by gondolas. Didn't notice that reflected in the video however.

The floor of the Transit Center does look bad, like third world country bad. San Francisco definitely does not need that. I was already disappointed that they took away the glass on the outside in exchange for the mesh. The place in turning into a disappointment after it had so much promise.

On the plus side, its good to see San Francisco growing again.

[Jerry of San Fran]

Today I see the last windows are going in on the top floor. Now we will see what the wind is like in the area long famous for fierce winds in the winter time. I will post a picture if I see any windows blow out!


Crescent Heights - 10th & Market Sts. by Apollo's Light, on Flickr

[Jerry of San Fran]

The concrete facing has been removed from the building and the structure is now ready for it's new glass face. 09/12/2013.

Also this week in the early morning hours I see Twitter installed a large sign with a clock on the corner of the building at Market & Ninth Streets.


Market Square - 10th Street Building by Apollo's Light, on Flickr

[tech12]

Originally Posted by wakamesalad

Still sounds better than "bus stop," which is all it really is.

Well all it really is right now is a giant hole in the ground. But did the planned HSR and caltrain connections get secretly cancelled and only you know about it?

[mt_climber13]

Originally Posted by tech12

Well all it really is right now is a giant hole in the ground. But did the planned HSR and caltrain connections get secretly cancelled and only you know about it?

Gentleman's bet- $100 the train station doesn't get built in our lifetimes.

Of course, if it ever were built, the US dollar will have been phased out by that time

Don't take yourselves too seriously SF.. it's ok to laugh at yourselves like the rest of us already do. I kid with love of course ))

[tech12]

Originally Posted by wakamesalad

Gentleman's bet- $100 the train station doesn't get built in our lifetimes.

Of course, if it ever were built, the US dollar will have been phased out by that time

Don't take yourselves too seriously SF.. it's ok to laugh at yourselves like the rest of us already do. I kid with love of course ))

Well yeah, it will be a long time before it gets built...but my $100 bet is that it will get built in our lifetimes. Hopefully I'm not completely senile by then

[easy as pie]

well, the caltrain extension into the transbay transit center using a good dose of hsr funds (because of shared alignment) is pretty much a certainty, though obviously the timeline is dicey.

[fimiak]

Some Transbay Transit Center (ugh) photos. If its not going to be Transbay Terminal, then I recommend Transbay Center at the very least. The same change was made from Fulton Transit Center to Fulton Center in NYC.





201 Folsom St


Finally, the Transbay Tower site as it stands now.


I wonder what is going to have more impact on the SF economy, the Central Subway or the Transit Center.