San Francisco Development News

[JoshYent]

nice!

[jcruze057]

Originally Posted by desertpunk

Curbed

this is so goodlooking

[Cal_Escapee]

SFJAZZ announced today that it's selected Hathaway Dinwiddie as the general contractor for the construction of the 35,000-square foot SFJAZZ Center to be located at 205 Franklin Street in Hayes Valley. This will be the first permanent home for the 28-year-old organization. The structure is designed by San Francisco architect Mark Cavagnero of Mark Cavagnero Associates. It's designed to achieve LEED Gold certification and has an auditorium with flexible seating for 350 to 700 listeners.

Source: http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2011/0...azz_center.php


Source: http://sf.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...er_of_jazz.php

[Cal_Escapee]

Salesforce.com Inc. has hired San Francisco’s well connected Strada Investment Group to guide development of its 2 million square foot Mission Bay campus and could break ground this year on the project if everything goes according to plan.
“We are happy with the progress so far,” said Bruce Francis, Salesforce’s vice president of corporate strategy. ”Everything is going forward as planned — it’s going to be one of the biggest developments San Francisco has seen in a long time.”
The cloud computing giant acknowledged that Strada had been brought on board and confirmed that Mexican architect Legorreta + Legorreta has been hired to design the complex, but otherwise said it would be premature to discuss details of the project . . . .

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranci...on-bay-HQ.html

[Cal_Escapee]

SFMOMA expansion projects moving along
John King
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

(02-22) 10:44 PST San Francisco -- While other high-profile development projects of recent years sit dormant, the expansion plans for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art proceed with the serene assurance of a Thomas Kinkade landscape.

Museum officials say the environmental impact study should be filed by the end of April for the project, which includes a major new wing along Howard Street that will intersect with the 1995 structure designed by Mario Botta. The museum then plans to unveil the design by the fast-rising firm Snøhetta, based in Oslo and New York, in late May or early June.

There's also progress on a less-ballyhooed part of the project - a new fire station at 935 Folsom St., to be built at SFMOMA's expense so the museum can then tear down an existing station on Howard Street that stands in the way of the planned expansion.

Last week, a conceptual design for the 15,000-square-foot firehouse was shown to the Civic Design Review Committee of the San Francisco Arts Commission. The goal is to start construction on Folsom Street by this time next year.

The fire station's architect no longer is Gensler, as originally announced, but the local firm Leddy Maytum Stacy . . . .

Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DDUR1HPHGA.DTL

King goes on to say that the new museum wing should be ready to open by 2016. Construction, of course, cannot begin until the new fire station is done so the old one can be torn down to make way for the museum. I'm guessing that will happen in late 2013 (after maybe 15 months of construction on the new fire station).

PS: ANYBODY ELSE OUT THERE?

[peanut gallery]

Hey CE, I'm here and thanks for the SFMOMA article. I missed it at SFGate.

On the TI buildings, I should be disappointed at the chop job but really I'll be glad to see any of that actually built and it's not my first choice for location of 600 ft buildings anyway.

[SF1977]

Originally Posted by Cal_Escapee

Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...DDUR1HPHGA.DTL

King goes on to say that the new museum wing should be ready to open by 2016. Construction, of course, cannot begin until the new fire station is done so the old one can be torn down to make way for the museum. I'm guessing that will happen in late 2013 (after maybe 15 months of construction on the new fire station).

PS: ANYBODY ELSE OUT THERE?

I'm new but I'm here. Thanks for posting!

[peanut gallery]

A few weeks ago, SocketSite shared massing graphics for 706 Mission. This is the project that will eventually house the Mexican Museum and rehab the existing building on the northwest corner of Mission and 3rd. Here are a couple of them:





Source and more illustrations: SocketSite.

[Cal_Escapee]

San Francisco State has plans for $250M performing center
Premium content from San Francisco Business Times - by Sarah Duxbury
Date: Friday, February 25, 2011, 3:00am PST

San Francisco State has unveiled plans for its $250 million Mashouf Performing Arts Center, a 242,000-square-foot, three-phase project that will take 15 years to complete . . . .

Money for the arts center is separate from the school’s operating budget and will come from general obligation bonds. It is not threatened by the current budget problems.

Architect Michael Maltzan out of Los Angeles designed the single structure that will be built in three phases.

Phase One includes a 1,200-seat state-of-the-art theater and will be the largest piece of the project. One rationale for building a world-class facility is to promote partnerships with and use by the city’s professional arts groups, like the Opera, Symphony and Ballet.

Once complete, the performing arts center will also include a 350-seat recital hall, a 450-seat little theater, a 240-seat black box theater, a 60-seat “brown bag” theater, as well as practice rooms, classrooms, broadcast studios and all the other physical spaces necessary for a world-class art department.

No construction start is set; it could be as early as late spring, or it could be two years from now. Phase One is anticipated to last three years.

The new center will occupy a prominent corner at Lake Merced and Font boulevards. Once the new center is complete, the old 1950s-era creative arts center will be razed . . . .

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranci...ng-center.html

[peanut gallery]

I couldn't think of an empty lot along Lake Merced there, so checked Google maps. Must be that triangular space that has some sports facilities. I never really noticed it before.

[Cal_Escapee]

Congrats on successfully posting Hopefully whatever was the problem is fixed. I'm not very familiar with the outer Sunset so I had no idea where it was exactly--I was just impressed with a new 1200 seat performing arts venue in town.

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PS: Yeah, I Google-Mapped it too and I'm sure you are right.

[peanut gallery]

Bond fixed it for me -- thanks again, Bond! I was getting that message because of the images, but the post on 706 Mission is visible on the previous page now.

I'm fairly familiar with the area because I take that route when I have to go down the Peninsula so as to avoid 19th and/or Van Ness.

[Cal_Escapee]

Webcor rebuilds business model

“We are to the 10th story of the concrete frame of the PUC building. We are digging dirt about half way down on the General Hospital — just digging the hole and putting in the shoring. We are just starting the excavation on the Transbay Terminal . . . . In April Webcor is likely to start construction on its first new housing project in over three years, the Emerald Fund’s $100 million apartment tower at 333 Harrison St. And with the rapid expansion of San Francisco technology tenants like Zynga, Twitter, Dolby and Salesforce.com, Ball hopes that office construction is around the corner. Webcor is the contractor on two entitled office buildings that could be among the first to go vertical — GLL’s 350 Mission St. and Wilson Meany Sullivan’s fourth Foundry Square building . . . .“I am hoping this will be the year when private sector lending starts to really get back into it, and we see some of the projects that have been put on hold here in San Francisco come back . . . .

Source: http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranci...ess-model.html

Fourth Foundry Square Building (actually,Foundry Square III)?? I didn't realize that was ready to go.

At 7 stories (65'), 333 Harrison is not really a "tower" but it's a nice addition to the 'hood, especially if the second ORH tower gets going:


Source: http://www.dbarchitect.com/projects/.../135.html#1816

350 Mission:


Source: http://www.350mission.com/buildinginfo/renderings

Foundry Square III


Source: http://www.loopnet.com/xNet/MainSite...x?LID=14987996

Still, I cry for 535 Mission!

[peanut gallery]

Last I heard on Foundry Square III, they had purchased the neighboring building (the one with the night club and Goat Hill pizza) to expand the footprint a little further west. But the parking lot was still in action a few weeks ago when I was last in the neighborhood.

350 would be a nice consolation prize -- but I'm with you, 535 is the one I want to see go up most of all. The piles are just sitting there under a bunch of rocks and dirt, ready to go. You never know though. It seemed like Bosa would never re-start Radiance II in Mission Bay and that's now rising again.

[Cal_Escapee]

Now, thanks to Socketsite ( http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2...erforming.html ) we know what the new San Francisco State Performing Arts Center will look like (and where it will be) and to my eye it's stunning:

[peanut gallery]

1977 (who I assume is the same 1977 over here) posted these and a couple more on SSP.

Here's another view of the exterior:


And an interior view:


Source: http://www.archdaily.com/

This will be gorgeous.

Another thing I saw at SocketSite: It's estimated to cost $250 million, and $12 million has been raised so far. Still a ways to go but not a bad start.

[Cal_Escapee]

Originally Posted by peanut gallery

Another thing I saw at SocketSite: It's estimated to cost $250 million, and $12 million has been raised so far. Still a ways to go but not a bad start.

The BizTimes article said they plan bond financing so they won't actually have to "raise" much of it I suspect.

Anyway, these designs made me want to know who this Maltzen guy is and it turns out he hasn't really done anything big before:

In S.F. State arts center, a potential breakthrough for Michael Maltzan
Comments (2) (37) (38)
February 24, 2011 | 11:00 am

The Los Angeles architect Michael Maltzan is known for a number of quietly forceful, thoughtfully executed small and mid-size projects, including the Inner-City Arts complex on the edge of downtown L.A.'s skid row and the Billy Wilder Theater at UCLA's Hammer Museum. Many of Maltzan's larger commissions, though, including an art museum for Fresno, have stalled or fallen through. In that sense he has shared a frustration common to L.A. architects of his generation, searching in vain for the chance to take on sizable civic projects.

Thanks to San Francisco State University, Maltzan's wait on that score may be coming to an end . . . .

Source: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/cult...r-maltzan.html

The same article had some more renderings:







I think I can predict a big future for Maltzan.

[ElDudarinodotcom]

Wow. Seriously, if it turns out like that...amazing. I love those staggered balconies.

[peanut gallery]

Speaking of Foundry Square:

Kabam, a developer of online social games, is moving into 25,000 square feet of office space at the Orrick Building at 405 Howard Street in SoMa.

Source: Curbed SF.

That's FS II, BTW. I didn't realize there was any space in that building, other than some retail space along Howard. I know FS IV (Gymboree) has at least a couple of floors open, especially since Sun Microsystems is no longer in there. Still, the Kabam news is good for the chances of III getting off the ground.

[jessemh431]

There's a new Whole Foods on the corner of Stanyan and Haight. Just opened a few weeks ago. Haven't been yet, but I heard it's really nice.