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

[minesweeper]

Last week during "Stormageddon", I had a chance to snap a few pics from 50 Beale.



You can see how close 350 Mission is and that its glass is almost up to the top of 50 Beale, where I took the photos:

[Jerry of San Fran]

minesweeper - fantastic views of the coming attractions. In a few years it will be gone.

[1977]

A few tidbits from The Registry:

San Francisco-based TMG Partners has been given full unanimous approval by the planning commission of the City of San Francisco for the development of a new office project located at 501-505 Brannan. At this point the developer has not filed for a building permit, according to an e-mail from the City of San Francisco.

“We are expected that we will be starting our project sometime in early to mid-2015. This project already falls under the current provisions of Prop M, so we don’t have to worry about that at this time,” says Matt Field, chief investment officer with TMG. He envisions a development time frame that will last 24 months from start to finish.

http://news.theregistrysf.com

The project on Brannan is located in the SoMa West sub-market in San Francisco, according to data from the San Francisco office of Colliers International. This sub-market has only one office building under construction, and this is the building at 85 Bluxome Street, which broke ground last week. The Bluxome development site is practically on the same block as the proposed TMG development.

http://wellcertified.com

[1977]

Also...

Mystery Flag Coming to S.F.
A new hotel operator has signed up for the long-awaited 250 4th project, which will dump much-needed hotel rooms right near the Moscone Center. The flag is "well known" and "one everyone will be excited about," one source tells us (an NDA prevents the source from sharing the name). We hear the brand will be new to the West Coast. We also checked in on the ETA and status of the conversion of Olivet Theological University into the 12-story boutique hotel, teed up for 180 to 200 keys. The own has secured a site permit and is going after the foundation permit. Once it breaks ground (after the rainy season in March or April), it could deliver by fall 2016

Source: www.bisnow.com


sf.curbed.com

And...

Trumark Urban is starting off 2015 with a bang, breaking ground on two projects that will add 170 units to Dogpatch and Potrero. Ground will get moving on 346 Potrero and 645 Texas in February

https://www.bisnow.com/

346 Potrero



645 Texas

sf.curbed.com

[edwards]

1450 Franklin 12/16

[fimiak]

346 Potrero is just awesome, the best new building of its size, and we should let developers know! I am definitely going to look for an apartment there in a few years.

[Jerry of San Fran]

Today I was surprised to see a 2nd crane being installed at Trinity Place III. There was a lot of concrete poured into the foundation the last week. I should start to see building above ground level soon.

The Essex Fox Plaza had a fire on the 17th floor Wednesday. Water damage down to the 14th floor. The firemen had trouble finding the shut-off valve for the sprinklers so damage was worse for that. A guy fell asleep while cooking.

Trinity Place III by Apollo's Light, on Flickr

[fflint]

I'm counting nine cranes in that photo--construction city!

[timbad]

Originally Posted by 1977

A few tidbits from The Registry:




http://news.theregistrysf.com




http://wellcertified.com

here is (I think) the lot for the building on Brannan (the first rendering above), taken from the 'back', Bluxome:



here is what the new building on Bluxome itself (the second rendering above) will replace:



it's toward the Fifth St end of the block between Fourth and Fifth, on the south side of the alley, across from the tennis court complex:

[simms3_redux]

More random little development updates:

101 Polk - 13 stories




Emerald Fund's newest - demolition happening fast.




1400 Mission (topped off)




1415 Mission




8th and Harrison - this project is just huge. It literally is an entire block. I do wish because it is an entire block that it could have been 1-2, maybe 3 floors higher, or so much higher such that only a portion of the block were developed leaving other parts to other developers. The low-rise zoning forces this sort of bland, suburban, stucco projects that go up in cities like Atlanta and Houston. Kind of sad.

[mt_climber13]

This is from Potrero Hill:

[david_h]

SFMOMA update as of the other week...

Untitled by sfbldg, on Flickr

by sfbldg, on Flickr

Let's hope the exterior doesn't stain as easily as it has done during construction!

(Do we have a thread for SFMOMA? Couldn't find it.)

[a very long weekend]

i walked by today and noticed even more staining that that, but it looks fairly clear that this is a very very high quality cladding. additionally, we almost never have the sort of rain here (ie. the reason for the apparent shabbiness) in sf that we've had over the past month - this is a rarity that you could price in somewhere equivalent to a robbery. so i think it's still too early to pronounce on the snoehetta plan here. that said, walking down mission or howard, this thing is imperceptible beyond the construction impediments. i'm guessing that, at the street level, we'll see something much more interesting develop as construction winds down, but in this part of the soma, where exactly this block is the segue on two sides (from mission/howard and from third) from normal walkable sf to motordom sf, i just feel like we've already seen enough downtown/brickell miami shit (through block drives, short sidewalks with recessed sidewalks or even throughblock promenades, etc) in that area to have taught us a lesson, hopefully. which makes me hopeful that a quality team like snoehetta has thought these things through. i'm thinking we wait on this one, i guess is my point.

[pseudolus]

2016 seems to be the target date for most of the proposals we know of. What new buildings do people expect will break ground in 2015?

[simms3_redux]

Break ground/substantially start:

41 Tehama (Hines/Invesco)...380' and 36 stories
350 Bush (Lincoln Property)...270' and 19 stories
500 Pine (Lincoln Property)...4-5 stories (Kearny and Pine, starts before 350 Bush)

1545 Pine (Trumark Urban)...13 stories condos (Architectonica)
346 Potrero (Trumark Urban)...8 stories apartments
1634 Pine (Oyster Dev)...twin 13 story condos (already broken ground, but will need to excavate and rise, so we'll see that in 2015)
340 Fremont...this thing hasn't really risen yet, so while the other UC towers around there wrap up, we still get to see this one rise
Trinity Phase III...again, same thing...2 tower cranes now up, but hasn't reached ground level yet. we'll get to see that one rise

CPMC (Hospital)...~290 ft?
CPMC Medical Office Building...9 stories

Moscone Center expansion

Warriors Arena

LOTS of random infill

Pier 70 rehab/re-use (Orton Development)

Hotel / Apt development in Mission Bay...SOMA Hotel Group and CIM Group (173 ft, and 250 keys for hotel)

Hunters Point stuff
Potrero Hill subsidized/affordable housing
Bayview subsidized/affordable housing
Park Merced redevelopment
Treasure Island redevelopment?


PLUS: 181 Fremont has not started to rise yet and the tower crane is expected to go up January and the framing should rise rapidly.

PLUS: Salesforce Tower is only shored/partially excavated, and that will take a few months, but I suspect we'll see concrete and steel poking out by year end with a rapid rise in 2016/2017

PLUS: Now the Transbay Terminal is going vertical. We got a taste in 2014 towards the end of this year, but look for major physical/vertical construction in 2015.


AND: we'll know where the economy stands before 2016, when several other office/residential proposals that are *interesting* and tall are expected to break ground (50 First St, TB Blocks 5, 8, and 9, Jean Gang TS condo tower)


FINALLY: We still have 706 Mission St (Mexican Museum Tower) with Millennium Development as a sponsor hanging out there. That could conceivably break ground 2015 and happen very quickly. I'm sure they are monitoring Lumina and Trumark's projects since those are the only other substantial competitive condo projects delivering next year or UC.


I think it will still be quite an exciting year. 2016 is when things could slow down if the economy slows down, not 2015.

[fflint]

Cool aerial showing a lot of projects under construction downtown and in Mission Bay:


source

[AndrewK]

Speaking of 2015 or 2016 starts, has anyone heard any specific timeline for 524 Howard?

[fimiak]

Great list Simms, but it does exclude some 2015 developments like 101 Polk and 150 Van Ness, and also 346 Potrero although they were accounted for in the infill section. There are also some unknowns like the KRON building on Van Ness and the possible addition to Fox Plaza. An exciting year ahead!

[simms3_redux]

Originally Posted by fimiak

Great list Simms, but it does exclude some 2015 developments like 101 Polk and 150 Van Ness, and also 346 Potrero although they were accounted for in the infill section. There are also some unknowns like the KRON building on Van Ness and the possible addition to Fox Plaza. An exciting year ahead!

^^^See my pics on 101 Polk; it's already more than halfway up. Same goes for 1415 Mission. Good point about 150 Van Ness, though, and I mentioned 346 Potrero

I doubt KRON redevelopment is 2015 and same goes for Fox Plaza addition. But there's that hotel on Fourth St adjacent to the new Central Subway station there that looks like it could be a 2015 start now (12 stories).

[AndrewK]

Originally Posted by fimiak

There are also some unknowns like the KRON building on Van Ness and the possible addition to Fox Plaza. An exciting year ahead!

I missed this development the first time around. For anyone else like me, here's what has been released in the way of rendering: