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

[SFView]

...And while we're on the subject, here is also something on the increased height of Hayes Valley Tower.
Source: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2018/05/even-more-height-for-hayes-valley-tower-as-proposed.html

And as newly rendered by SOM below, the team is now proposing the roof of the tower be allowed to reach a height of 359 feet, with another 20 feet to the top of its parapet, a proposal which would yield 345 apartments, 75,000 square feet of International School space withing the tower’s 5-story podium, and 3,100 square feet of ground floor retail space at the corner of Oak and Franklin.

[viewguysf]

150 Van Ness seems well tied into the 100 Van Ness tower, with amenities for all of the rental apartments being jointly marketed.

https://150vanness.com

[IMG]150 Van Ness by viewguysf, on Flickr[/IMG]

[IMG]150 Van Ness by viewguysf, on Flickr[/IMG]

[Jerry of San Fran]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...s-1390-market-fox-plaza-office-sale.html

I was shocked to see your posting (I live in the Essex Fox Plaza). I just got back from a 14 day trip to Belgium & am catching up on the news). I suspected at least part of the building was for sale due to the seismic upgrade happening now. I have always thought it odd that a building would be owned by two different companies - it has caused some conflict. The business lobby will be redone AGAIN! It happens every we get a new manager or owner.

[Pedestrian]

Originally Posted by Jerry of San Fran

I was shocked to see your posting (I live in the Essex Fox Plaza). I just got back from a 14 day trip to Belgium & am catching up on the news).

Ha! I posted that mainly for you and was waiting for a response.

Now you're back, how about some more pictures of Trinity Plaza, Phase 4?

[a very long weekend]

^ That's a big move for Swift. This doesn't include the USPS/Starbucks portion, though, right? That's still held by Essex? Are the entitlements still good on that 11 story project there, or have they expired?

[viewguysf]

Originally Posted by a very long weekend

^ That's a big move for Swift. This doesn't include the USPS/Starbucks portion, though, right? That's still held by Essex? Are the entitlements still good on that 11 story project there, or have they expired?

It's my understanding that Essex only owns the upper apartment floors and that Swift will own all of the retail along with the office floors.

[SFView]

Rendering for Skinny Transbay District Tower Revealed
Source: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2018/...ny-transbay-district-tower-revealed.html

And as newly rendered by Ankrom Mosian Architects above, and in more detail below, the proposed tower – which would yield 149 market rate condos over 52,000 square feet of office space, 8,000 square feet of retail/restaurant space and a basement garage for 89 cars and 135 bikes – would rise to a height of 495 feet, with wrap around decks and residential amenity spaces on the 8th and 28th floors, and setbacks above, breaking up the tower’s mass.

[Pedestrian]

Do we have any idea what is eventually to be done with the northwest corner of Howard & Main; the part of the block NOT occupied by Park Tower? I was down there today and it's a much bigger site than I remembered it being. It can't just sit vacant as everything around it becomes a tower, but I don't recall any specific proposals for it.

Incidentally, I also walked by the Oceanwide site and it really looks like the Malcolm folks are winding up and everybody's getting ready to dig. In fact, while I was there they were digging a small hole in the middle of the site but I couldn't tell why.

[BobbyMucho]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Do we have any idea what is eventually to be done with the northwest corner of Howard & Main; the part of the block NOT occupied by Park Tower? I was down there today and it's a much bigger site than I remembered it being. It can't just sit vacant as everything around it becomes a tower, but I don't recall any specific proposals for it.

Incidentally, I also walked by the Oceanwide site and it really looks like the Malcolm folks are winding up and everybody's getting ready to dig. In fact, while I was there they were digging a small hole in the middle of the site but I couldn't tell why.

From what I remember there's a right of way for 201 Mission St that runs through the middle of the block and can't be developed, but I believe part of it will become open space/park once Park Tower is complete.

[timbad]

around the horn...

100 Hooper is starting to come together...



the central gallery





the back end



looking east along the north side



couple peeks inside





33 Tehama plaza, since its thread is closed. this building doesn't seem to have the livening effect I thought it might on its alley, at least not yet



Moscone, from Mission...



... and Howard



this little one on Market near Van Ness is still in hibernation



Flax site



the affordable component of 55 Laguna



looking down the grand stair



north slope of Potrero Hill



the wrap-around one on Pacific

[The Best Forumer]

Originally Posted by SFView

Rendering for Skinny Transbay District Tower Revealed
Source: http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2018/...ny-transbay-district-tower-revealed.html

not a bad tower... looks like SF might be on track to get some skinny supertalls like NYC.... thoughts?

[Pedestrian]

Originally Posted by The Best Forumer

not a bad tower... looks like SF might be on track to get some skinny supertalls like NYC.... thoughts?

It's not a supertall and I doubt they'll build it. A lot of speculation about the motivation of this proposal on Socketsite.

[The Best Forumer]

Originally Posted by Pedestrian

It's not a supertall and I doubt they'll build it. A lot of speculation about the motivation of this proposal on Socketsite.

No I meant that with the scarcity of land and real estate prices there ... it will soon make more sense to build skinny supertalls like NYC.

[Jerry of San Fran]

At last I see activity at 1288 Howard (or 1298 - Worldco shows both numbers). The web page has 3 photos of the building.

http://www.worldco.com/portfolio/howard.html


1288 Howard & 9th Streets by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/antinous/]

[Jerry of San Fran]

A drawing of the building from Worldco web page.

http://www.worldco.com/portfolio/howard.html

1288-howard-03

[AndrewK]

The Pacific and Battery project turned out great. It blows my mind that there are still multiple surface parking lots in Jackson Square considering the land values in that neighborhood (to the extent that people get pretty Malthusian when discussing the proposed bmr housing on Broadway).

[viewguysf]

Taken from Powell and Post at Union Square, the 44-unit condo building under construction at California and Powell has a little tower crane now.

[IMG]Condo project at California and Powell by viewguysf, on Flickr[/IMG]

[boyinthecity]

As this sign said on a sketchy, old theater one time:

"All Newed Up".

Count the old buildings.



source image is mine...

[Pedestrian]

Impact Report for 250-Foot-Tall Ballet School Tower Released
June 13, 2018

a 27-story tower to rise up to 250 feet in height at the intersection of Otis, South Van Ness Avenue and 12th Street . . . .

The proposed Hub District development now includes a total of 423 apartments (42 studios, 261 one-bedrooms, 111 twos and 9 threes) over 16,600 square feet of replacement space for the existing City Ballet School on the 30 Otis Street site which is slated to be razed; 5,600 square feet of ground floor retail space which would divided in three; and a garage for 74 cars and 361 bikes.

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2018/...chool-tower-released.html#comment-336359

[38 Geary]

At Risk in a Big Quake: 40 of San Francisco’s Top High Rises
A report by the U.S. Geological Survey includes a list of buildings that are potentially vulnerable to a large quake. Some of San Francisco’s most prominent high rises are on the list.
By Thomas Fuller
June 14, 2018

Experts consider these buildings vulnerable to collapse only in extreme shaking caused by rare and powerful earthquakes, similar to the one that struck San Francisco in 1906.

The list, buried among the seismic calculations of an appendix in the U.S.G.S. report, includes around 40 steel-frame high rises clustered in downtown San Francisco and built between 1960 and 1994, the approximate years when the flawed technique was employed. There are more than 200 high rises in the city.

1. Hartford Building, 650 California

2. Beal Bank Building, 180 Sansome

3. Bechtel Building, 50 Beale

4. 44 Montgomery

5. 425 California Street

6. 555 California Street

7. McKesson Plaza, One Post

8. Pacific Gas & Electric Building, 77 Beale

9. One Embarcadero Center, 355 Clay

10. Transamerica Pyramid, 600 Montgomery

11. 100 Pine Center, 100 Pine

12. 211 Main Street

13. First Market Tower, 525 Market

14. 425 Market Street

15. Two Embarcadero Center

16. 221 Main Street

17. California Automobile Association Building, 100 Van Ness

18. Chevron Tower (Market Center)

19. Spear Tower (One Market Plaza)

20. Steuart Tower (One Market Plaza)

21. Three Embarcadero Center, 155 Clay

22. Shaklee Terraces, 444 Market

23. 333 Market Street

24. 595 Market Street

25. 201 California Street

26. Two Transamerica Center, 505 Sansome

27. 101 California Street

28. Telesis Tower, One Montgomery

29. 1 Ecker Square, 1 Ecker

30. 100 Spear Street

31. 101 Montgomery

32. Citicorp Center, One Sansome

33. 50 Fremont Center

34. 333 Bush Street

35. 345 California Street

36. 301 Howard Street

37. Hilton San Francisco Hotel, 333 O’Farrell

38. San Francisco Marriott, 55 4th

39. Embarcadero West, 275 Battery

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/us/california-earthquakes-high-rises.html