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Old Posted Dec 12, 2015, 7:47 PM
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No Crescent Heights for Parcel F?
Dead--and I'm glad Crescent Heights is out of it.
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Old Posted Dec 13, 2015, 12:25 AM
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These affordability requirements don't make any sense. The city wants people making only $50,000 to be able to live right there at Transbay? It's a transit center. Isn't the whole point of transit to allow people to live further away and commute?
A huge part of what makes housing more affordable is it being on land that is less valuable. Nothing in downtown SF is affordable.
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Old Posted Dec 13, 2015, 12:54 AM
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I believe the requirements are ordered by the State as part of the deal after CalTrans sold the land to the city. Now that fewer and fewer plots of land are available in Transbay for BMR units, it is becoming much more difficult to pencil out affordability requirements on site.

A new auction should be set and the developers should stick with Transbay's original plan which was for an 800'+ office tower, therefore, no BMR requirement. Tall office towers look much better on the skyline than residential towers IMO.
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I believe the requirements are ordered by the State as part of the deal after CalTrans sold the land to the city. Now that fewer and fewer plots of land are available in Transbay for BMR units, it is becoming much more difficult to pencil out affordability requirements on site.

A new auction should be set and the developers should stick with Transbay's original plan which was for an 800'+ office tower, therefore, no BMR requirement. Tall office towers look much better on the skyline than residential towers IMO.
parcel F is waaay too small for a 800' office tower.
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Old Posted Dec 13, 2015, 9:33 AM
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Parcel F contains 29,000 square feet of net developable area. 181 Fremont, for comparison, is just over half that size, at 15,310 square feet, and even Salesforce Tower's largest floor plates will be around 24,000 square feet. As has been stated, if the eventual developer acquires the parcel next door, combined they would have nearly 40,000 square feet. In this economy, that footprint will be plenty large enough to justify building as high as code allows.
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Parcel F contains 29,000 square feet of net developable area. 181 Fremont, for comparison, is just over half that size, at 15,310 square feet, and even Salesforce Tower's largest floor plates will be around 24,000 square feet. As has been stated, if the eventual developer acquires the parcel next door, combined they would have nearly 40,000 square feet. In this economy, that footprint will be plenty large enough to justify building as high as code allows.
look at the shape of it, and look at the nasty set of easements running diagonally through it. (Start with page 32 http://www.transbaycenter.org/upload...x-Easement.pdf)

181 Fremont is residential on top for a reason....
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I see what you mean - 29,000 developable sf seems almost cruelly misleading. With some design ingenuity, would the structure be allowed to cantilever over the train box easement? The possible result would be unique amongst San Francisco skyscrapers.

Either way, I would agree that a mixed-use proposal is most likely for this parcel.
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While we may be a little disappointed at the possible 60 foot shortening of Oceanwide Center, could Parcel F be considered for a 90 foot increase from 750 feet to 840 feet? This image is part of the attached documents regarding the 100 foot increase to 100 Folsom St. A difference between roof and building heights shown is not given, but many are clearly roof heights.

http://sfocii.org/sites/default/file...chmentE-06.pdf

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I can't recall ever seeing this more realistic depiction of the likely shape of the building to be built on Parcel F (due to the requirement that only one story may be built atop the train easement portion).


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There's a new tentative agreement on selling Parcel F:

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Transbay panel has deal for land key to financing transit center

The board of the cash-strapped Transbay Joint Powers Authority struck a deal Thursday with a developer willing to pay $160 million for a key parcel of land near the transit center, money that is badly needed to finance the first phase of the $2.1 billion facility at First and Mission streets.

Development group F4 Transbay Partners plans to build a mixed-use tower with upward of 300 hotel rooms, 200 residential units and as much as 425,000 square feet of office space. In addition, the developer has agreed to pay the transit authority an additional $15 million if it can hammer out a deal to acquire a contiguous piece of privately owned land at 540 Howard St.

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The deal with F4, a joint venture between Hines, Urban Pacific and the Goldman Sachs real estate fund Broad Street Real Estate Credit Partners, is to close by the summer. It is not a sure bet, however.

It it contingent on the city granting the developer an exclusive negotiation agreement to take on another piece of Transbay land — Block 4 — currently being used for the temporary bus terminal. That property, zoned for a 450-foot residential building, would give F4 land to build the 70 affordable units connected to Parcel F, as well as additional housing.
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Assuming floor plates the size of 181 Fremont (about the largest the site will accommodate), the numbers equate to around 30 office floors (405') and 33 hotel/residential floors (341'), pushing up to the 750' height limit. Maximum allowance for mechanical and crown could extend the building to 825' tall.

Acquisition of 540 Howard would nearly double the potential square footage and enable the possibility of a fairly massive building by San Francisco standards (~1.4 million sf).
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Old Posted Jun 23, 2016, 6:22 AM
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Parcel F

According to a business times article posted today it seems like the developers of parcel F are considering HKS Architects or Cesar Pelli to design the new tower. I kinda wish they went with other world renowned architects since Pelli Clark is already designing two of the main buildings in the Transbay District.
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https://www.cpexecutive.com/post/jv-...san-francisco/

Parcel F has been sold to Hines, Urban Pacific, and Goldman Sachs
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Parcel F has been sold to Hines, Urban Pacific, and Goldman Sachs
It bothers me that they say "supertall" when a supertall is 300 Meters / 984 Feet, not 550 ft like the article suggests. But good news nonetheless.
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Anyone seen the official render?

https://www.instagram.com/p/BHVcmz5BnXt
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Damn was about to post this!

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2...ower-site.html
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Old Posted Jul 1, 2016, 11:56 PM
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I love it! Lets get this one started as well.....
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Wow looks really good! Like the design!
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I like it too
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