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

[fimiak]

The future Twitter Park. Those walls are coming down. As of Sunday night two large holes have been formed.

[DIESELPOLO]

@fimiak, what's Twitter Park? They're doing groud-level private amenities for their employees?

[Jerry of San Fran]

fimiak - nice view of the hole in the wall - from your apartment in NEMA? The hole in the wall is where the new supermarket is to be located according to blueprints I saw a few months ago. There will be 1 or 2 cafes in Market Square looking out onto Stevenson Street & probably with tables & chairs.

Here is a link that shows what the alley might look like in a very cool video (I'm sure it has been posted before here) with Market Square on one side and 1 Tenth St. on the other.

http://www.marketsquaresf.com/

[simms3_redux]

Major San Francisco Construction Photo Update

Photos taken October 13, 2013.

1. Marlow SF - 98 condos being marketed by Polaris Pacific (also marketing Linea, Blanc, Saitowitz's Dogpatch creation, and Axis in SJ

LEAST EXPENSIVE UNIT: 746 SF 1BR for $725K

http://themarlow.com/












100 Van Ness










NEMA












Market Square - where Twitter is already leasing 200,000 SF and rumored to take 320,000 more - 2 buildings totaling 890,000 SF office and 200,000 SF retail

I love the Twitter signage - this Market Square is really going to transform this area!!!

http://shorenstein.com/portfolio/investments/property?id=4284

Originally Posted by Jerry of San Fran

fimiak - nice view of the hole in the wall - from your apartment in NEMA? The hole in the wall is where the new supermarket is to be located according to blueprints I saw a few months ago. There will be 1 or 2 cafes in Market Square looking out onto Stevenson Street & probably with tables & chairs.

Here is a link that shows what the alley might look like in a very cool video (I'm sure it has been posted before here) with Market Square on one side and 1 Tenth St. on the other.

http://www.marketsquaresf.com/

1400 Mission - 190 units of affordable housing over 4,350 SF retail and 42 parking spots; 10 and 15 floors

Originally Posted by spyguy

1400 Mission

1415 Mission - 14 stories, Heller Manus designed, 165 units, 2,800 SF retail, 101 valet parking spaces






AVA 55 Ninth






Mercy Housing project in the Tenderloin - 121 Golden Gate, 10 stories, 90 BMR units for seniors






15 story Hampton Inn on Mission between 5th and 6th




Market Street Place - damn nothing happening yet





http://marketstreetplace.com/?page_id=10





5th and Folsom (Mosso SF) - $250M 463 unit 2-component development majority owned by Essex

Formerly known as 260 Fifth (181 units) and 900 Folsom (282 units), JV between Avant and Essex.



Looks like each building will have a pool/amenity deck that faces the other across the alley.






SFMOMA's $610M expansion/transformation to add 78,000 SF gallery space and 70,000 SF public/support space



http://www.sfmoma.org/our_expansion/expansion_project/expansion_project_faq






140 New Montgomery!!! - This building is so awesome. 295,000 SF renovation by Wilson Meany and Stockbridge.

Yelp already taking 110,000 SF starting at $54. Building is now 2/3 leased (295,000 SF total). a high-end restaurant is supposed to take one of the retail spaces. 26 floors and only 435 ft. Call it 390 ft less decorative top and it's 15 ft floors, easily!



INTERIOR!!







Look at the polished stonework on the exterior - so beautiful!



The back.












222 Second Street - Tishman Speyer, 26 stories, 447,336 RSF



http://www.tishmanspeyer.com/properties/222-second-street

They are digging more quickly now, with several escavators on-site, a retaining wall being built, and Malcom Cement mixer still on-site.






Foundry III








Transbay Block 6/7

I think this equipment including derrick crane is on that block? Or at least next door.




45 Lansing Street










One Rincon Hill North Tower - Core topped off












333 Fremont Street - the wrapping has come off and this looks mostly done - FINALLY








Lumina - the hole is 2 floors deep and largely cleared - will they go 3 floors deep or are we within ~1-2 months of crane installation and matte pour?









BONUS - 140 New Montgomery Lighting Scheme - WHOA!

Disclaimer: Not currently green, my camera just did that. It's white light.

[fimiak]

Yes that's my new view. Not as good as yours thats for sure. I called it Twitter Park because they (obviously) are leasing Market Sq Bldg, but are now also looking into 300k sq ft of One Tenth St (the remodeled glass bldg), which would make Twitter by far the biggest tenant of these buildings. Officially I don't know if its even going to be considered a park, but it will be open to the public.

[simms3_redux]

Originally Posted by coyotetrickster

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/nevius/art...-in-debate-over-8-Washington-4889257.php

This is an excellent column about the wealthy couple who's views will be blocked by the development. Prop C has nothing to do with a Wall on the Waterfront. 8 Washington went through all the appropriate approvals, including the board of supervisors.
City Planning should not be done by ballot box. Voting yes on C will allow the project to proceed. Vote yes on C and B.

OMG I was reading some of the comments. Typically I hold residents of this city to be ideological and politically motivated, but at least responsible, sound, and intelligent. Are SFGate commenters normally ignorant, purely emotional, and illogical? I'm super worried reading these comments that this city is still ruled by complete fools who don't care to base any of their views on sound fact or logic.

I live next door to where the 8 Washington development is supposed to go up. LoL My view will literally be gone, yet I'm a renter. Even if I were an owner, who am I to decide that a private lot can't be bought and built on? The opponents of 8 Wash/proponents of Prop B/C are rich rich rich - who the FUCK has $392,000 spare change lying around to throw at a ballot measure to decide the fate of a 92 condo development?????????

ANYONE siding with Barb and Rich Stewart of Telegraph Hill whose view will be partially obscured need to get the FUCK out of my city. God I hate idiots who REFUSE to see the ironies and all the sides and gather all the facts - again, why the FUCK are these people even allowed to vote on such a project. Not to mention that Boston Properties is the 2nd backer of the ballot measure, again to protect lower floor viewpoints of 4 Embarcadero Center, which is ironically the capstone building (all 45 floors) of a 3.5 million SF 4-floor skyscraper wall along the waterfront/edging the financial district and essentially WALLING the North FiDi from the waterfront. If the development goes down by public vote/ballot measure, every developer/equity shop is going to be thinking longer and harder at plopping money down in SF. Same thing goes for this Formula Retail Legislation - Jack Spade just run out of the Mission based on legislation that hasn't even passed yet but is already essentially being enforced?!?!?!?!?!?!

There are times I love San Francisco, and there are times I wish half the population would get a vasectomy and/or move out.

These people are also completely opposed to the Warriors Arena and are now linking the ballot measures to that. Not to mention the richies of the Four Seasons are trying to put another tower by the SAME GROUP WHO BUILT THEIR OWN CONDOS (Millennium Partners) to ballot to corral their poor minions throughout the city...getting poor/middle class people just trying to get by in expensive SF to vote down a single tower that has nothing to do with 99.9999999% of residents of the city, and all to protect partial views (the worst view direction imo as well out of the viewpoints that those residents have) of $10M condos in an adjacent building. If you live in the Richmond, Sunset, Visitacion Valley, Pacific Heights, Excelsior, Nob Hill, Marina, etc - please don't give a FUCK what happens miles away from your place of residence. Don't vote on these ballot measures that absolutely don't concern you. Many of you guys are all also now millionaires through home equity thanks to all these fancy developments, so why bite that hand that friggin feeds you? Sell you now $1M shit home to someone who thinks it's market to pay $1M for a tiny 1-2 BR thing, and get out and go to the suburbs where you don't have to deal with this. Heck, you could afford private school for your kids and college if you sell your SF home. Geebus

[Gordo]

Thanks for the overview, simms3_redux! Lots of good pictures in there.

[Jerry of San Fran]

simms3_redux - nice collection of photographs for us who don't get about as much as you do!

I stopped in the rental office of NEMA (10th/Market) and inquired as to whether the units are air conditioned - they are not. She confirmed what I saw, the windows are very limited as to how far they can be opened. As they open from the bottom I wonder how heat or smoke will exit the apartments. I have 20 sq. ft. when my balcony door is open. NEMA's windows by my estimate has about 6 sq. ft. of open space. It will be interesting to see how these windows perform in one of our winter storms as the wind can be fierce at Market and 10th Sts. - I have 42 years experience at this location.

[minesweeper]

Originally Posted by simms3_redux

Lumina - the hole is 2 floors deep and largely cleared - will they go 3 floors deep or are we within ~1-2 months of crane installation and matte pour?

BONUS - 140 New Montgomery Lighting Scheme - WHOA!

Thanks for all the great photos, simms3_redux. The re-lit crown of 140 New Montgomery looks spectacular after going dark for so many years.

As for Lumina, there will be five (!) levels of underground parking going 45' deep, so this is going to be a huge excavation:

[minesweeper]

J.K. Dineen has an update on how some recent condo projects are selling (some aren't even finished yet!):

San Francisco has 11 new condo communities totalling about 550 units. Of these units, about 300 are either sold or in contract. Linea, Brian Spiers’ 114-unit project at 1998 Market St., currently has 33 units in contract, according to Polaris Pacific At 1800 Van Ness, Oyster Development Corp. has 56 units in contract out of a total of 98. Blanc, Sean Sullivan’s 35-unit project in Nob Hill, is about 50 percent sold. And 300 Ivy St., Pocket Development’s 61-unit complex in Hayes Valley, is down to its last unit or two.

[coyotetrickster]

Originally Posted by simms3_redux

OMG I was reading some of the comments. Typically I hold residents of this city to be ideological and politically motivated, but at least responsible, sound, and intelligent. Are SFGate commenters normally ignorant, purely emotional, and illogical? I'm super worried reading these comments that this city is still ruled by complete fools who don't care to base any of their views on sound fact or logic.

I live next door to where the 8 Washington development is supposed to go up. LoL My view will literally be gone, yet I'm a renter. Even if I were an owner, who am I to decide that a private lot can't be bought and built on? The opponents of 8 Wash/proponents of Prop B/C are rich rich rich - who the FUCK has $392,000 spare change lying around to throw at a ballot measure to decide the fate of a 92 condo development?????????

ANYONE siding with Barb and Rich Stewart of Telegraph Hill whose view will be partially obscured need to get the FUCK out of my city. God I hate idiots who REFUSE to see the ironies and all the sides and gather all the facts - again, why the FUCK are these people even allowed to vote on such a project. Not to mention that Boston Properties is the 2nd backer of the ballot measure, again to protect lower floor viewpoints of 4 Embarcadero Center, which is ironically the capstone building (all 45 floors) of a 3.5 million SF 4-floor skyscraper wall along the waterfront/edging the financial district and essentially WALLING the North FiDi from the waterfront. If the development goes down by public vote/ballot measure, every developer/equity shop is going to be thinking longer and harder at plopping money down in SF. Same thing goes for this Formula Retail Legislation - Jack Spade just run out of the Mission based on legislation that hasn't even passed yet but is already essentially being enforced?!?!?!?!?!?!

There are times I love San Francisco, and there are times I wish half the population would get a vasectomy and/or move out.

These people are also completely opposed to the Warriors Arena and are now linking the ballot measures to that. Not to mention the richies of the Four Seasons are trying to put another tower by the SAME GROUP WHO BUILT THEIR OWN CONDOS (Millennium Partners) to ballot to corral their poor minions throughout the city...getting poor/middle class people just trying to get by in expensive SF to vote down a single tower that has nothing to do with 99.9999999% of residents of the city, and all to protect partial views (the worst view direction imo as well out of the viewpoints that those residents have) of $10M condos in an adjacent building. If you live in the Richmond, Sunset, Visitacion Valley, Pacific Heights, Excelsior, Nob Hill, Marina, etc - please don't give a FUCK what happens miles away from your place of residence. Don't vote on these ballot measures that absolutely don't concern you. Many of you guys are all also now millionaires through home equity thanks to all these fancy developments, so why bite that hand that friggin feeds you? Sell you now $1M shit home to someone who thinks it's market to pay $1M for a tiny 1-2 BR thing, and get out and go to the suburbs where you don't have to deal with this. Heck, you could afford private school for your kids and college if you sell your SF home. Geebus

Here's the best solution. Vote yes on B & C, and when you see the signature collectors for the Four Season's ballot, stop and stand around telling people the truth about the signature collection effort. I tried that with some hapless twink in the Castro who was collecting signatures for Proposition C. It was entertaining. PS, that is not polished stone on the old pactel building, It's Terra Cotta.

[1977]

So many great projects, so many great photos. Thanks simms3_redux!

[fflint]

Yeah, yeah. You have lived here long enough now to acquire the appropriate love/hate relationship with San Francisco. Man up. It has always been like this, and it is what it is. I don't mean to dissuade you from trying to fight City Hall, but at some point you either walk down the street and genuinely like the end result of all this process, or it's time to move to San Jose.

Originally Posted by simms3_redux

OMG I was reading some of the comments. Typically I hold residents of this city to be ideological and politically motivated, but at least responsible, sound, and intelligent. Are SFGate commenters normally ignorant, purely emotional, and illogical? I'm super worried reading these comments that this city is still ruled by complete fools who don't care to base any of their views on sound fact or logic.

I live next door to where the 8 Washington development is supposed to go up. LoL My view will literally be gone, yet I'm a renter. Even if I were an owner, who am I to decide that a private lot can't be bought and built on? The opponents of 8 Wash/proponents of Prop B/C are rich rich rich - who the FUCK has $392,000 spare change lying around to throw at a ballot measure to decide the fate of a 92 condo development?????????

ANYONE siding with Barb and Rich Stewart of Telegraph Hill whose view will be partially obscured need to get the FUCK out of my city. God I hate idiots who REFUSE to see the ironies and all the sides and gather all the facts - again, why the FUCK are these people even allowed to vote on such a project. Not to mention that Boston Properties is the 2nd backer of the ballot measure, again to protect lower floor viewpoints of 4 Embarcadero Center, which is ironically the capstone building (all 45 floors) of a 3.5 million SF 4-floor skyscraper wall along the waterfront/edging the financial district and essentially WALLING the North FiDi from the waterfront. If the development goes down by public vote/ballot measure, every developer/equity shop is going to be thinking longer and harder at plopping money down in SF. Same thing goes for this Formula Retail Legislation - Jack Spade just run out of the Mission based on legislation that hasn't even passed yet but is already essentially being enforced?!?!?!?!?!?!

There are times I love San Francisco, and there are times I wish half the population would get a vasectomy and/or move out.

These people are also completely opposed to the Warriors Arena and are now linking the ballot measures to that. Not to mention the richies of the Four Seasons are trying to put another tower by the SAME GROUP WHO BUILT THEIR OWN CONDOS (Millennium Partners) to ballot to corral their poor minions throughout the city...getting poor/middle class people just trying to get by in expensive SF to vote down a single tower that has nothing to do with 99.9999999% of residents of the city, and all to protect partial views (the worst view direction imo as well out of the viewpoints that those residents have) of $10M condos in an adjacent building. If you live in the Richmond, Sunset, Visitacion Valley, Pacific Heights, Excelsior, Nob Hill, Marina, etc - please don't give a FUCK what happens miles away from your place of residence. Don't vote on these ballot measures that absolutely don't concern you. Many of you guys are all also now millionaires through home equity thanks to all these fancy developments, so why bite that hand that friggin feeds you? Sell you now $1M shit home to someone who thinks it's market to pay $1M for a tiny 1-2 BR thing, and get out and go to the suburbs where you don't have to deal with this. Heck, you could afford private school for your kids and college if you sell your SF home. Geebus

[simms3_redux]

Originally Posted by minesweeper

Thanks for all the great photos, simms3_redux. The re-lit crown of 140 New Montgomery looks spectacular after going dark for so many years.

As for Lumina, there will be five (!) levels of underground parking going 45' deep, so this is going to be a huge excavation:

Wow! It looks about 25 ft deep now, so almost twice as deep to go.

Originally Posted by coyotetrickster

Here's the best solution. Vote yes on B & C, and when you see the signature collectors for the Four Season's ballot, stop and stand around telling people the truth about the signature collection effort. I tried that with some hapless twink in the Castro who was collecting signatures for Proposition C. It was entertaining. PS, that is not polished stone on the old pactel building, It's Terra Cotta.

See, now why is some twink in the Castro even concerned about this matter that is miles away (and literally right next door to me)? This is what baffles me about this city - no city I can think of is as political.

Thanks for the correction on Pactel building - thought it might be, glad that it really is. Absolutely beautiful building and very glad that SF has at least a few examples of relatively tall old neogothic/art deco towers from the guilded age.

Originally Posted by fflint

Yeah, yeah. You have lived here long enough now to acquire the appropriate love/hate relationship with San Francisco. Man up. It has always been like this, and it is what it is. I don't mean to dissuade you from trying to fight City Hall, but at some point you either walk down the street and genuinely like the end result of all this process, or it's time to move to San Jose.

I suppose all the pros and the general outcome outweigh the cons Between this, the new Millennium Tower debacle, and the whole formula retail debate - this has to be the most NIMBY city in the world - very frustrating for those of us who mentally thrive on new construction projects and growth

[tech12]

Originally Posted by simms3_redux

See, now why is some twink in the Castro even concerned about this matter that is miles away (and literally right next door to me)? This is what baffles me about this city - no city I can think of is as political.

Yeah, I live on the great highway, at the southern edge of the outer sunset, which is about as far away from 8 Washington as you can get...and yesterday, giant flashy "no on B&C flyers" got slipped into every doorway for blocks in every direction. And of course the flyer was full of nonsense, such as claims that it was about "taking back our city from greedy developers". Such ridiculous bullshit. And there are plenty of ignorant people who are buying that bullshit unfortunately. I can't believe there are people wealthy enough to spend half a million dollars in order to impede progress for an entire city (and just to save their views/property values), and I can't believe that we let them do it, let alone let them do it through outright lies.

[coyotetrickster]

Originally Posted by simms3_redux

Wow! It looks about 25 ft deep now, so almost twice as deep to go.



See, now why is some twink in the Castro even concerned about this matter that is miles away (and literally right next door to me)? This is what baffles me about this city - no city I can think of is as political.

Thanks for the correction on Pactel building - thought it might be, glad that it really is. Absolutely beautiful building and very glad that SF has at least a few examples of relatively tall old neogothic/art deco towers from the guilded age.



I suppose all the pros and the general outcome outweigh the cons Between this, the new Millennium Tower debacle, and the whole formula retail debate - this has to be the most NIMBY city in the world - very frustrating for those of us who mentally thrive on new construction projects and growth

The twink was being paid to collect signatures. He really had no idea about the issue.

[mt_climber13]

The San Francisco Exodus- why preserving San Francisco's low density "charm" is destroying the city's fabric, pushing everybody except the uber rich out, and killing the city's soul http://www.theatlanticcities.com/housing/2013/10/san-francisco-exodus/7205/

I am definitely a statistic here :p

[BushMan]

Originally Posted by coyotetrickster

The twink was being paid to collect signatures. He really had no idea about the issue.

Great point, I have often seen "twinks" carrying around two competing petitions and who are happy to get your signature on either side of the same issue.

[Jerry of San Fran]

Today the garage was demolished in preparation for the new highrise.


1415 Mission St. Demolition by Apollo's Light, on Flickr

[fflint]

Anybody looking for an $8,000/month apartment above Whole Foods?

That's the top rental tier at 38 Dolores! But don't worry--you can get a studio for only $3,000.