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

[1977]

Some new plans for the old AAA headquarters. This will be a boon to the currently blah Market/Van Ness intersection.

From www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco:

Auto club tower revs up for housing
San Francisco Business Times
Date: Friday, October 21, 2011, 7:18am PDT

Emerald Fund and National Real Estate Advisors are exploring a plan that would convert the former California State Automobile Association headquarters at 100 Van Ness Ave. into 400 apartments.
In anticipation of the eventual residential conversion, the groups are clearing the last remaining tenants out of the building, which was mostly occupied by the CSAA until it decamped for Walnut Creek in 2010. Emerald Fund and NREA, which operate as Civic Center Commons Associates LLC, have agreed to pay a $750,000 lease termination fee to the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, which will likely move its offices to nearby 1455 ...The project would likely include a new exterior skin, according to Marc Babsin, a principal with Emerald Fund. The San Francisco office of Solomon Cordwell Buenz is working on the design.

Some other mid-Market highlights from the article:

The developer has an option to buy 101 Polk St. and has filed a preliminary project assessment application to build 175 housing units there. The property is currently a 13,200-square-foot surface parking lot. Emerald Fund is proposing a 13-story building with 53 parking spaces.

Apartment real estate trust AvalonBay has tied up a development site at 55 Ninth St., and expects to begin work next summer on a $125 million, 260-unit project.

One of the largest projects in the area, Crescent Heights’ 750-unit, two-tower development at 1401 Market St., was expected to break ground this fall but there has been no construction activity at the site.

Patrick Kennedy is planning 200 units of student housing at 104 Ninth St.

[CyberEric]

That's good news, and hopefully the new exterior skin is an improvement.
Thanks!

[peanut gallery]

I can't believe 55 Ninth is actually going to start. That's been an empty lot forever. I wonder if they'll change the design from the previous developer (Anka, I believe):


Source: SocketSite.

I'm not holding my breath about Crescent Heights. We've been told construction is imminent so many times.

On the AAA building, I never thought it looked bad though I'm definitely in the minority on that. No matter, I'm sure the new skin would be better if they eventually decide to pursue that plan.

[Jerry of San Fran]

1977 - thanks for the updates. A lot to digest in one post. I live in the Archstone Fox Plaza near the development mentioned. My neighbor had noticed this week that the street level parking lot was blocked off at Polk & Hayes Streets, now we know why. Next year we could see a lot of dust flying in my neighborhood - I'll be doing a lot of vacuuming!

peanut gallery - The AAA building is much to look at so it would be nice to see a new skin on it. I watched it being built from the sun deck on the Fox Plaza.

[N830MH]

Originally Posted by Jerry of San Fran

1977 - thanks for the updates. A lot to digest in one post. I live in the Archstone Fox Plaza near the development mentioned. My neighbor had noticed this week that the street level parking lot was blocked off at Polk & Hayes Streets, now we know why. Next year we could see a lot of dust flying in my neighborhood - I'll be doing a lot of vacuuming!

peanut gallery - The AAA building is much to look at so it would be nice to see a new skin on it. I watched it being built from the sun deck on the Fox Plaza.

I doubt it they will be demolition? You couldn't breathing too well. You have to keep away from the dusts. You have stay inside the entire building and do not go outside.

[CyberEric]

Originally Posted by peanut gallery

I can't believe 55 Ninth is actually going to start. That's been an empty lot forever. I wonder if they'll change the design from the previous developer (Anka, I believe):


Source: SocketSite.

I'm not holding my breath about Crescent Heights. We've been told construction is imminent so many times.

On the AAA building, I never thought it looked bad though I'm definitely in the minority on that. No matter, I'm sure the new skin would be better if they eventually decide to pursue that plan.

Is 55 Ninth that terrible hole in the ground that is right on Market? I really hope so, that parcel is quite the eyesore.

Edit: I just checked google maps and it appears that the empty lot is on 10th and Market. I would love to see them build something, anything there.

[ElDuderino]

Well good news. That hole is getting filled.

Biggest S.F. apartment project in years gets go-ahead; 800 jobs

San Francisco Business Times by J.K. Dineen, Reporter
Date: Monday, October 31, 2011, 4:44pm PDT - Last Modified: Tuesday, November 1, 2011, 12:11pm PDT



Swinerton Builders has received the green light to start work on a long-stalled 749-units apartment complex at 10th and Market Streets.

The $200 million apartment project, being developed by Miami-based Crescent Heights , is a central piece of the city’s plan to bring new activity and investment into the city’s Mid-Market neighborhood. The development, originally for-sale condos, was shelved before the recession started in 2008; it was redesigned as apartments last year.

“We got the notice to proceed today,” said Jeffrey Hoopes, president of Swinerton. “Tomorrow we will be moving trailers in and putting up fencing.”

The project will bring significant relief to the ranks of the city’s construction trades, which have struggled with double-digit unemployment for three years. The 10th and Market project will be built all at once, rather than phased, and will be the largest new housing development in San Francisco since the recession started in 2008.

“It’s pretty exciting. We’ve been waiting for some of the larger projects to start,” said Hoopes. “At the peak there will be 800 workers on that site.”

Swinerton is also the general contractor on phase two of Angelo Sangiacomo’s Trinity Place, a 417-unit rental project at Eighth and Mission. The two developments represent 1167 new Mid-Market housing units. Earlier this year the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a Mid-Market payroll tax break in an effort to lure tech firms to the area. The geographically target tax break resulted in Twitter’s announcement that it was moving to 1355 Market St., the former San Francisco Furniture Mart building.

Glenn Rescalvo of Handel Architects, who also worked on the Millennium project at First and Mission streets, designed the revised project.

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/...cisco+%28San+Francisco+Business+Times%29
Uploaded with ImageShack.us

[Jerry of San Fran]

ElDuderino - thanks for the update. It is difficult to tell from the artist picture, but it looks like it might be an interesting building. I live across the street from the site and will see the structure from my balcony if I get close to the railing. The area is now red hot!

[Jerry of San Fran]

I took this picture this morning of the site from my balcony. The construction trailers are now on the site. Exciting to see it finally happening.


10th & Market Streets Highrise Development by Apollo's Light, on Flickr

[CyberEric]

Great shot, thanks Jerry!

[Reminiscence]

Forgive my ignorance, but the last few times I've driven into SF from the East Bay, I've seen a crane sitting more or less where One Rincon Hill's North Tower would be built. I doubt that it has anything to do with the North Tower, is there anything else going on around here?

[1977]

Originally Posted by Reminiscence

Forgive my ignorance, but the last few times I've driven into SF from the East Bay, I've seen a crane sitting more or less where One Rincon Hill's North Tower would be built. I doubt that it has anything to do with the North Tower, is there anything else going on around here?

That's 333 Harrison:

http://www.dbarchitect.com/projects/slideshow/135.html


Source: www.dbarchitect.com

Btw, leasing signs were posted at the parking lot for last (southwest corner) of the Foundry Square buildings. I haven't been to that area in awhile but I think they are relatively new.

Here's the site:

http://www.foundrythree.com/

It'd be great to see the last piece of the square filled in.

[Reminiscence]

Thanks for that find. Foundry Square III looks pretty significant, and a while coming. 333 Harrison looks smaller, but should look nice from the Bay Bridge. I'm glad to see both are going forward

[1977]

I would love to see this building active and lit up again. I really miss it's presence in the skyline at night.

SoMa fever is leading San Francisco redevelopment master Wilson Meany Sullivan and its money partners, San Francisco-based Stockbridge Capital Group, to rethink plans for the historic Pacific Telephone building at 140 New Montgomery St. in the city.

Elizabeth Billante, a vice president at WMS in its office development division, told a Silicon Valley audience that office-tenant interest in the 26-story building is pushing the re-calibration.

Wilson Meany had intended to redevelop the striking, white Art Deco-era property into condominiums and a swanky hotel when the company acquired it in 2007 for $117 million. But the developer has been approached by users who are looking for offices in the SoMa district, where demand has driven office vacancy rates below 5 percent.

Source and the rest of the article: http://www.theregistrysf.com/RTRE_wilson_meany_sullivan_dostart.html

Old pic but here's how it looked at night:


Source: http://www.naturephoto.com/images/library/web164.jpg

[Jerry of San Fran]

1977 - The building was awash in light recently, mayber for a movie? A lovely building. I love the granite eagles on the top. I'd preferred to see it as a condo/hotel but the market rules. The lobby as I'm sure you know is stunning. I worked next door for 15 years in the Rialto Bldg., a pre 1906 earthquake structure that burned & was dynamited but did not fall & was rebuilt.

[Jerry of San Fran]

I got a view of the 10th and Market development today from Mission Street. This view will not exist in a few months. Pictured from left to right is the AAA Building (to be converted to apartments), The Argenta apartments and the Fox Plaza office and apartments (Archstone). A part of the Bank of America building can be seen on the left. B of A was to build a twin tower at 10th and Market Sts. but got angry that the city of San Francisco passed an employee tax and built instead in the East Bay. The property then passed out of B of A's possesion.


10th & Market Street Development from Mission Street by Apollo's Light, on Flickr

[1977]

The building was awash in light recently, maybe for a movie?

No way? Thanks. I've been out of town this week so I haven't seen it. And yes, huge fan of the lobby...so beautiful.

Also, thanks for the progress picture at 10th and Market. IMO, this project is a total game changer for the mid-Market/Civic Center neighborhood.

[1977]

And speaking of mid-Market/Civic Center...

From www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco:

Tishman picks affordable site for 201 Folsom St.

Tishman Speyer is lining up the affordable housing piece of its next San Francisco housing development.
The prolific developer is working with the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corp. to build 188 units at 1400 Mission St. The building would consist of for-sale affordable units for households earning 90 percent of area median income, according to planning documents.
The fully approved project at 1400 Mission would satisfy the affordable housing requirement for 201 Folsom St., Tishman Speyer’s 725-unit, 736,000-square-foot development. The two-tower complex — one building would be 38 stories and one 43 stories — would be the second phase to Tishman Speyer’s Infinity project...

Source and the rest of the article: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/...shman-picks-affordable-site-for-201.html

If I'm not mistaken, 1400 Mission is the lot directly south of the 10th and Market project. We could see this whole city block developed over the next 2-3 years!

[CyberEric]

Cool pic of the Pacific Telephone building, I had no idea it could be lit.

Jerry, another great shot.
Does anyone know, will the new building be as tall as the AAA building?

[Jerry of San Fran]

Originally Posted by CyberEric

Cool pic of the Pacific Telephone building, I had no idea it could be lit.

Jerry, another great shot.
Does anyone know, will the new building be as tall as the AAA building?

Thanks CyberEric - The California Automobile Association building is 29 stories. The 10th and Market Streets (was referred to as Crescent Heights awhile back, not sure that is what it will be called) is to be 35 stories.