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Cesar Pelli’s Transbay Transit Tower, soon to be the tallest building west of the Mississippi, will reshape San Francisco’s skyline



The city by the bay will have a new heart in its skyline, once the tower’s 61 stories soar to 1070 feet.

By David Knowles / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Saturday, April 6, 2013, 12:01 AM
Updated: Saturday, April 6, 2013, 12:01 AM


Architect Cesar Pelli says he hopes his creation will add some spark to what has become a "rather boring skyline" in San Francisco.


SAN FRANCISCO--A tower rises in the west.

Designed by renowned architect Cesar Pelli, construction of San Francisco’s Transbay Transit Tower is now officially underway.

A mixed use skyscraper that will reside atop the Transbay Terminal — a future rail hub that developers are billing as the west coast equivalent to Grand Central Station — Pelli’s sleek tower will reach 61 stories, 1070 feet into the sky, making it the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. “The numbers don’t interest me,” Pelli told the Daily News. “What is important is that the building be visible above others.”


The Transbay Transit Tower will be more than 200 feet taller than the Transamerica Pyramid.


More than 200 feet taller than the iconic Transamerica Pyramid, the city’s highest man made peak since it was completed in 1972, Pelli’s design will go up just south of Market St., a part of town ripe for the addition of a bold architectural landmark. “I have known San Francisco for over 50 years,” Pelli said, “and it used to have a much more cheery silhouette than it does today. I’m sad to say it has become a rather boring skyline because of building codes.”

As with every building project in San Francisco, earthquake safety is a priority, but even though the tower is going up in a part of the city where landfill was used to cover over the Bay, Pelli says there’s no need to worry. “Towers are inherently safer in earthquakes than low buildings,” Pelli said. “If you know an earthquake is coming run to the tallest building you can find.”

The developers for the project — Boston Properties, Inc., which is owned by Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman, and Hines — estimate that building the tower will cost upwards of $1 billion.


Part of the new Transbay Terminal, a high speed rail and transportation hub, the Transbay Transit Tower will feature approximately 1.3 million square feet of rental space.


With luck, by the time the tower is finished in 2016, the adjacent rail terminal will be have progressed beyond the planning stage. Then again, since California voters approved a high speed rail line connecting San Francisco and Los Angeles five years ago, the estimated cost of the project has doubled to a jaw dropping $69 billion.

Still, with or without the high speed train, the Transbay Transit Tower will be completed and offer 1,300,000 square feet of rental space. “It will be a shame if California doesn’t build high speed rail,” Pelli said. “When I go to Japan I never fly while I’m there. I take the Shinkansen everywhere.”


Set at the corner of First and Mission Streets, the Transbay Transit Tower will cost an estimated $1 billion to build.


With anticipation running high in San Francisco to see how the Transbay Transit Tower will reshape the city, Pelli is already on to new projects. When asked if there’s anywhere in the world he’d especially like to leave his architectural mark, he laughs and says he leaves that up to his clients. “I’m like a kid on Christmas, waiting to see what I’m going to be given,” he explained.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...san-francisco-article-1.1308926#ixzz2PfQXjXNm

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Proposal To Build Two Massive Towers In SF

- John King, Chronicle Urban Design Writer
Thursday, December 21, 2006

(12-21) 15:01 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- Developers have filed a proposal to erect the nation's tallest buildings outside of New York and Chicago - a pair of slender San Francisco towers that would climb 350 feet higher than the Transamerica Pyramid.

The plan, filed today with the city's planning department, envisions a cluster of unusually thin high-rises spread across two acres at the northwest corner of First and Mission streets: two 1, 200-foot towers, two 900-foot structures and a 600-foot companion.

Down on the ground would be an open plaza, covered passageways and two small existing buildings.

By comparison, the Transamerica Pyramid is 853 feet high and the Bank of America building is 779 feet. The only buildings in the United States of greater height than what is proposed for San Francisco are Sears Tower in Chicago and New York's Empire State Building.

Today's filing is an application to start the environmental review process, rather than a formal design unveiling. By the time that occurs, the heights and dimensions of the towers could change.

The lead architect for the project is Renzo Piano, who also is doing the new home of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park.

"It is highly conceptual at this point," Mark Solit, a member of the development team, said of the project. "Conceptual in terms of our discussion with the city, and conceptual in terms of Renzo Piano Building Workshop's vision of what they think might be appropriate."

E-mail John King at jking@sfchronicle.com.


URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/12/21/BAGUNN44C07.DTL
Earlier Richard Rogers 1,200 ft. proposal:



*Tower renamed after anchor tenant Salesforce.com

 
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Apparently it's already confirmed that they doubled their lease in transbay from 300k square feet to 600k, and that it may rise as high as 700k:

http://www.bisnow.com/commercial-real-estate/san-francisco/1379-requirements-surge-in-14/

So the big announcement coming up may be something else entirely. It is being called a "historic investment in SF", which sounds bigger than just leasing more office space, at least. We'll find out soon. Hopefully it's something crazy like a a massive donation for subway extensions or maybe the construction of starfleet command :lol:

Spires count. Cry more. Wilshire Grand is officially taller :lol:

:tiasd:

Even still, the roof of your transbay only goes up to 912 feet, whereas the Wilshire grand has it's roof up to 934 feet. You may have a building that appears taller, but it's not officially taller :cheers1:
Of course Wilshire is officially taller, but the "roof" stat for Transbay is kind of meaningless. The 912' roof height is to the top of occupied floors, but there's also a large mechanical penthouse on top of that with its own roof at 970'. And then there's the crown on top of that too:

 
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So, we can now put aside all questions and doubts about construction because the building is leased:

Salesforce makes landmark deal to lease half of Transbay Tower
Ellen Huet and John Coté
Updated 7:47 am, Friday, April 11, 2014

Salesforce.com will lease half of the planned Transbay Tower in a landmark real estate deal that puts San Francisco's largest tech employer inside what is slated to be the city's tallest building.

Company and city officials are set to announce in a private meeting Friday that Salesforce will be the anchor tenant in Transbay Tower - now to become Salesforce Tower thanks to a naming rights agreement - when the 61-story skyscraper is completed in 2017.

The cloud-computing company will pay $560 million over 15 1/2 years to lead developer Boston Properties for 30 floors at Mission and Fremont streets . . . .

The planned skyscraper is within a block of 50 Fremont, where the company already leases 500,000 square feet, and a not-yet-finished 30-story building at 350 Mission, where Salesforce plans to fill every floor by 2015. Those leases will continue even after Salesforce moves into its tower.

The three buildings - within a stone's throw of one another and the planned Transbay Transit Center - will form the base of an enormous urban corporate campus at Fremont and Mission streets . . . .

Salesforce workers prefer the location to Mission Bay because of nearby transportation and restaurants, the mayor said.

Benioff "freely admits that his employees said, 'We like this area,' " Lee said.

By 2017, when Salesforce Tower is set to open, the company plans to have doubled in size - both in leased space and in the number of San Francisco-based employees.

Already the city's biggest tech tenant, Salesforce currently leases more than 1 million square feet across the city. It plans to hold 2 million square feet when the tower is completed. The company employs 13,000 workers - 4,000 of them in the city.

Along with the real estate deal, Salesforce also announced it plans to add 1,000 San Francisco jobs in the next year . . . .

Excavation at the site is now under way. When finished, Salesforce will occupy the lowest and highest floors in the building, as well as floors 3 to 30 . . . .

Under the current deal, there will be Salesforce signage, Hu said, but it will only be 100 feet above street level.

"Unfortunately," Hu said, "there will probably not be a giant cloud at the 61st floor."
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Salesforce-makes-landmark-deal-to-lease-half-of-5394954.php

It is now to be officially named the Salesforce Tower so maybe a little adjustment of the thread title is in order.

As for an observation deck, it seems odd that they are taking the first 30 floors and the top floor. Perhaps Mark Benioff wants a very grand office, but maybe they do plan the top floor for public space of some sort.
 
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As for an observation deck, it seems odd that they are taking the first 30 floors and the top floor. Perhaps Mark Benioff wants a very grand office, but maybe they do plan the top floor for public space of some sort.
An observation deck would really be great. As for the new name....ehhh. "Salesforce tower" sounds kind of silly and generic (just like the company name!), and it'll always be the Transbay tower to me. Even plain old "415 Mission street" sounds better to my ears than "salesforce tower". Maybe they can change their company name to something more interesting :lol:

And I was kind of hoping this big "historic" announcement was something completely new, but it was just a confirmation of the already rumored increase to 600k or 700k sq. feet, plus the name change thing, and adding 1,000 new employees. It is nice to know 110% for sure that this thing is getting built, though I never really had any doubts about that once they broke ground.

Salesforce completely dominates that intersection now, with tons of office space in 50 Fremont, Transbay, and all of 350 Mission.
 
#1,242 ·
^^ I see, thanks for clarifying this folks :cheers:

The surface of the parapet walls on the new version has holes, however it looks like a higher percentage of the surface of the walls is filled than empty so I would consider it a solid crown and therefore a 326 meter building :cheers:
 
#1,264 ·
Yeah, but it doesn't act militaristic. Out-of-towners may not know that Salesforce founding CEO Marc Benioff has recently given the University of California at San Francisco Medical Center $200M to build one new children's hospital and renovate another. This may be the most money any of these new tech titans (other than Bill Gates) have given to charity. In any case, Benioff is well on his way to becoming known as one of the city's greatest benefactors so he can probably name his headquarters anything he wants.
 
#1,268 ·
What I mean is they could merge, be acquired, rebrand, etc. Especially considering how Facebook and Google are sucking up every available company like they were Microsoft circa 1999.
Salesforce is a 10,000+ employee company with billions in revenues, and has already been around for 15 years. Not exactly comparable to an Instagram or WhatsApp. I wouldn't bank on a name change. Either way it's hardly important.
 
#1,269 ·
Heh, well I work for a $20-billion-a-year company, and it just got acquired, resulting in a name change on the building. So maybe that's where my head is at. But I'm not banking on it, just trying to provide a little hope for those that think the name sucks (which it does).

At the end of the day, I'm just excited the thing is finally getting off the ground.
 
#1,271 ·
Salesforce is the largest and most successful at what it does. It is more likely to be the acquirer than the acquired. But Google had their shot at this building. Six months or so ago the betting was that they would take much of the space. In fact, people thought that was why Boston Properties was billing it as a "campus in the sky". Salesforce, after all, leased the entire 30-story building under construction across the street (and it was assumed would put their name on it).
 
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Captain Obvious to the rescue:

Nothing prevents us from continuing to refer to the future building as the Transbay Tower. I still refer to the Willis Tower as the Sears Tower, after all, and no one misunderstands or corrects me. Believe it or not, there are still folks in NYC who refer to 1WTC as the "Freedom Tower," a name that I personally detest, though cannot abolish.

If branding the Transbay Tower with the official "Salesforce" title will get this thing erected in a timely fashion, I say go for it.
 
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