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Tishman Speyer's 960-unit mixed-use project in Central SoMa earns approval

A massive, mixed-use project with 960 residential units south of Market earned approval from the city’s planning commission on Thursday. The approval marks another milestone in the wide-ranging plan to turn the city's large-scale "Central SoMa" project into a hub of new housing and office space amid the San Francisco’s development boom.

Developer Tishman Speyer proposed the project at the end of 2017 with internationally renowned architects from Bjarke Ingels Group designing the two towers at 655 4th St.

The two 400-foot-tall towers will include 24,509 square feet for a 38-room hotel on top of the over 1 million square feet for the 960 units, which include studies, lofts and 1-bedroom and 2-bedroom apartments. The project also calls for more than 20,000 square feet of office space, 18,000 square feet of retail on the ground floor and additional space for retail and Privately Owned Public Open Spaces (POPOS) in the form of landscape plazas and mid-block alleys. The curved design of the towers will also create 132 private balconies and rooftop gardens for residents.