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[peanut gallery]

Twitter officially moving to Mid-Market:

Twitter signs lease for headquarters in Mid-Market
Benny Evangelista, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Twitter Inc. has made it official and signed a lease Friday to move its headquarters from Folsom Street to the historic Market Square building on Market Street.

The microblogging service signed the lease with landlord Shorenstein Properties just three days after the San Francisco Board of Supervisors approved a plan that gives Twitter and other companies moving into the Central Market and Tenderloin areas a six-year break on payroll taxes on new employees.

Twitter, which has plans to increase its workforce from the current 400 to as many as 3,000 by 2013, had threatened to move from the city to the Peninsula if it didn't get the controversial tax break.

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Read more: SFGate

[Jerry of San Fran]

A picture I took a couple of days ago of Trinity Plaza's building on Mission Street being demolised to make way for Phase II of Trinity Place. I had not realized that the old motel building was built so well till the demolition started.


Trinity Plaza_April 2010, San Francisco by Apollo's Light, on Flickr

[ElDuderino]

The makeover of the Metreon breaks ground today. The expansion and relocation of the Metreon’s food court which will overlook Yerba Buena Gardens should be done by the end of the year while San Francisco’s first Target remains on target for a spring 2012 opening.

http://socketsite.com/

[peanut gallery]

^I'm most excited about the plan to open retail spaces onto Mission and 4th, and moving the food court to overlook YB Gardens. Those two things alone should create a marked improvement.

[peanut gallery]

I had completely forgotten about this:

SFJAZZ Center Set For Ceremonial Ground Breaking This Afternoon

With $45 million of its $60 million construction budget raised, San Francisco’s soon to be new SFJAZZ Center at 205 Franklin ceremonially breaks ground this afternoon with an opening targeted for Fall 2012 (as opposed to the Target opening that Spring).

As the corner of Franklin and Fell currently appears in it's less jazzy state:

Source: SocketSite.

It's designed by Mark Cavagnero. More info at the SFJAZZ website.

[CyberEric]

That looks really nice, thanks for update.

[peanut gallery]

Glass is going onto the PUC Building:



You might get a better sense of the tint in the sunlight:



I think it may have topped out, but can't say for sure:



The previous shot is looking east on Golden Gate. This one is looking northwest from Polk:



I'm really liking how it flairs out at the bottom:



A closer look at the vertical column on Golden Gate:



You can already tell this is going to be a great looking building.

[1977]

Thanks for the photos peanut gallery! I'm loving the glass.

It seems like there's been a lot of news today so I thought I'd contribute some more:

From www.socketsite.com:

Pier 27 Rendered And Ready For Fiscal Feasibility Vote

With Supervisor Kim casting the sole dissenting vote in the Budget and Finance Sub-Committee, on Tuesday San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors will review the Finding of Fiscal Feasibility for the Port’s Cruise Terminal Project at Pier 27.

The estimated project cost for the terminal is $90,308,846 with the Port having identified $78,393,200 in "various potential funding sources, leaving a shortfall of $11,915,646." The potential funding sources include $15,500,000 in Port Revenue Bonds, $9,122,943 in General Obligation Bonds, and a $6,500,000 contribution from the City’s General Fund.

As proposed the Pier 27 Cruise Ship Terminal Project would be constructed in two phases to accommodate the use of Pier 27 for the 34th America’s Cup from January 2013 to April 2014. The new cruise terminal would open November 2014.

Source: www.socketsite.com


Source: www.socketsite.com

[peanut gallery]

You're welcome, and thanks for the Pier 27 news. I found some additional renderings on the SF Port website:





I really like it: clean, open, accessible. There are more at the link above.

[Reminiscence]

Great update on the PUC Building. We need more buildings with the design and façade this building will have.

[1977]

Since we're on the topic...

A new rendering of the PUC building:


Source: http://www.readthehook.com/89654/wet-zero-worrells-wastewater-gadget-cleans-sf

[WildCowboy]

Is that the world's largest lava lamp at the cruise terminal? Can't decide whether I love it or if it's the most absurd thing I've ever seen...maybe both.

[1977]

I'm sure this project is still a ways off but I found a website and a few renderings for the new San Francisco Museum at the old Mint (Fifth and Mission):

http://www.themintproject.org/


Source:www.inhabitat.com/


Source:www.inhabitat.com/


WildCowboy-

Can't decide whether I love it or if it's the most absurd thing I've ever seen...maybe both.

Haha, I feel the same way.

[NOPA]

Wow that's awesome. The glass roof reminds of me the British Museum (in London). I was wondering what was going on with the old Mint. Does anybody know what type of museum?

[ElDuderino]

Originally Posted by NOPA

Wow that's awesome. The glass roof reminds of me the British Museum (in London). I was wondering what was going on with the old Mint. Does anybody know what type of museum?

I think it is going to be the permanent home of the Museum of the City of San Francisco

[timbad]

Originally Posted by timbad

... since I was in the neighborhood, thought I would post a couple shots of the projects mentioned.

first, 178 Townsend. it's a little hard to tell in the pic, but a lot of its innards have been torn out:



and, there is not too much to see yet over on 2nd behind MoMo's (which is on the left. even further left, home of your champion San Francisco Giants):

just wanted to give a quick update on these two projects since that previous post in Nov 2010...

178 Townsend:



and 2nd St behind Momo's:

[CyberEric]

Awesome, thanks for the updates!

Does anyone know anything about the crane near Market and Octavia in that empty lot?
I noticed it the other day and haven't heard anything about what is going on there...

[peanut gallery]

You're probably talking about 1844 Market. It's suppsed to be 114 rental units:

Source: SocketSite.

Last I read, the development is in foreclosure.

[CyberEric]

Ah, that must be it. That's too bad about it being in foreclosure.
Thanks for the info.

[peanut gallery]

Snøhetta's preliminary designs for SFMOMA expansion were unveiled today. Keep in mind, these are just conceptual; they haven't even picked out materials for the skin yet. Craig Dykers of Snøhetta calls it "a preview of a preview."

From the Chonicle:

From above:


View from YB:


Looking from across Howard:


The W can kiss goodbye views to the east from lower floors:

Design unveiled for SFMOMA addition
John King, Chronicle Urban Design Critic
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

The details are sketchy, but the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has released its design concept for a new wing that would double the size of the institution - a concept that aims to slide a block-long building into the landscape without causing a fuss.

The expansion would stretch from Howard Street north to Minna Street behind the museum's existing home, a length of 335 feet. The top height of 195 feet along Howard compares with the 163-foot peak of SFMOMA's distinctive granite-rimmed skylight.

But instead of a solid block, the architects envision something more like a weathered cliff that folds in on all sides to lessen the impact on views and not shade the museum's popular sculpture garden.

Read more at SFGate.