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Originally Posted by Toasty Joe
couldn't agree more. SF's skyline has always punched above its weight due to the hills and (imo) tasteful variation in building height, with Salesforce more recently contributing a nice bulky centerpiece. This kinda ruins that. I'll wait to see renderings with Oceanside and Parcel F, but I almost hope this gets a height chop.
Call me crazy but I appreciate when a city's tallest is a marquee design with a strong presence. Feels similar to Central Park Tower essentially overtaking 1WTC, but way closer together.
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Once again, there is going to be a group of buildings within 2 blocks of each other surrounding the Salesforce Tower and from Dolores Park, which that image is, it will form almost a single mass. Besides Salesforce and 50 Main, TransBay Parcel F is very likely to move forward even before 50 Main. Quite possibly by the time 50 Main gets approved (assuming it does), what is currently known as Oceanwide Center could well have a new owner and when it does it will quickly begin to rise because the underground work, which in SF takes about half the construction time, is just about done.
So eventually there will be Salesforce, "Oceanwide" with 2 towers (one nearly 1000 ft), Parcel F, 50 Main and 181 Fremont in one pretty tight grouping. I do wish someone had produced a rendering showing all of them so the real situation would be apparent.