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

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And the images.













More at:
https://sfyimby.com/2022/06/construc...francisco.html

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I'm a big fan of this project - it's nothing particularly tall or architecturally groundbreaking, but it adds some major bulk and height for a part of town that is pretty low-rise. It's a super visible site as well. Plus some badly needed affordable housing.

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Construction starts on major S.F. office building for first time since 2020
Roland Li
June 3, 2022

For the first time in more than two years, a major San Francisco office building has started construction, a rare sign of activity in a market hit hard by the pandemic and remote work.

Local developer Urban Land Development began demolition this week at 531 Bryant St., where it is replacing an existing building with six stories of office space. The 50,000-square-foot project will include pandemic-friendly features like outside air circulation and outdoor terraces. Construction is expected to be completed in July 2023.

Susan Sagy, managing director at Urban Land Development . . . . [said] the building’s relatively small size makes it a good fit for a single tenant that wants total control over the building’s interior design and amenities . . . . There’s space for meetings, dining and leisure, such as a yoga room.

The city’s last major project to start construction was the San Francisco Giants and Tishman Speyer’s Mission Rock, whose first phase is nearing completion. Visa signed a lease for a new headquarters at the project before the pandemic in 2019.

Since then, San Francisco’s office vacancy rate has soared from around 6% to a record high of nearly 24%, according to real estate brokerage firm CBRE. A slew of major projects not far from 531 Bryant St. in the Central SoMa area have yet to start construction. Tech firm Pinterest paid $90 million to cancel a major lease at one of the unbuilt projects, 88 Bluxome St.

Sagy said the lack of new office supply will benefit 531 Bryant St. Urban Land Development is seeing an uptick in office demand, signing three recent leases at its 150 Post St. property near Union Square . . . .

The building includes two retail areas: one facing Zoe Street with two small micro-units suitable for entrepreneurs, and another on Bryant St. that could house a restaurant or cafe . . . .

https://www.sfchronicle.com/realesta...photo-22555129

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Originally Posted by unpermitted_variance

I'm a big fan of this project - it's nothing particularly tall or architecturally groundbreaking, but it adds some major bulk and height for a part of town that is pretty low-rise. It's a super visible site as well. Plus some badly needed affordable housing.

Yeah, we could definitely use more of these types of projects up and down our medium density transit oriented corridors.

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

https://www.sfchronicle.com/realesta...photo-22555129

Not a bad project although I think they could've gone 10-15 stories for this one to help with gradually building up Central SoMa.

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Originally Posted by homebucket

Not a bad project although I think they could've gone 10-15 stories for this one to help with gradually building up Central SoMa.

If the developer is aiming at the tech market, they probably didn't want to build a high-rise. Tech companies don't seem to really like high-rises. And, as the article says, they wanted to keep it to a size where a smalll or medium tech company might lease the whole building.

[BobbyMucho]

Looks like 921 Howard (across from 5M) is making some good progress. I was surprised to already see it's more than halfway above the final floor count:

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Looks like it's going up at a pretty good pace!

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New thread: SAN FRANCISCO | 200 Main Street (Transbay Block 4) | 513 FT | 47 FLOORS

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From Reddit. Majestic shot of the skyline from the Bay at sunset. Doesn't get any better than this.



https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/com..._mv_dorado_as/

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Nice shot of the skyline from Chase. Shoutout Dubs! I wasn't able to make it to the parade today but it looked LIT.



https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce4pR5GrwmJ/

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Some shots from the parade via the Warriors Twitter account:

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And a few more. Someone even brought their goat and with a Curry jersey on it . There's something about a downtown SF parade down Market St that just hits different. The cheers echoing down the skyscraper canyon, the people watching from their offices and balconies and rooftops, on Muni bus stop roofs, climbing trees, breaking down the barriers and joining the party in the street. Simply amazing.























https://www.sfgate.com/warriors/arti...e-17253503.php

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CfDL5adLNv1/

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Some cool shots from Pride weekend:



https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisc..._dolores_park/



https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisc...ride_saturday/



https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisc...w_e_l_c_o_m_e/



https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisc...rom_the_ferry/

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Purple hour in SF



https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisc...ng_last_night/

Random pic of Bernal Heights that I thought was a pretty cool perspective



https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisc...of_noe_valley/

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Here's a new one that just broke ground. 180 Jones Street in the Tenderloin.

Specs:
- 9 floors
- 70 units (100% affordable, 1 on-site manager unit, 35 subsidized units for homeless, 34 units for low-income residents making between 40% and 65% of the area’s median income)
- Additional amenities: ground-floor community room, tenant lobby, property management with 24-hour desk clerk, on-site social workers, free fiber internet (courtesy of the City’s Fiber to Housing program), and a second-story landscaped courtyard open to the street, providing much needed green relief to the dense urban neighborhood

The site:
https://goo.gl/maps/rhUPNst6WSmuyVKq8



https://sfyimby.com/2022/06/permanen...francisco.html

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Some nice shots of Serif SF and the LINE Hotel (opening this September). Love a well done flatiron building. Will be interesting to see how this further activates the neighborhood.



















https://sfyimby.com/2022/07/yimby-vi...francisco.html

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And some nice skyline views from Serif SF and the LINE Hotel.









https://sfyimby.com/2022/07/yimby-vi...francisco.html

[colemonkee]

Ha! I have that Zaha Hadid book!