SAN FRANCISCO | Projects: Under Construction, Approved, and Proposed - Page 460

Pedestrian · #**9181** Posted **Jun 13, 2018, 7:23 PM**

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Impact Report for 250-Foot-Tall Ballet School Tower Released
June 13, 2018

a 27-story tower to rise up to 250 feet in height at the intersection of Otis, South Van Ness Avenue and 12th Street . . . .

The proposed Hub District development now includes a total of 423 apartments (42 studios, 261 one-bedrooms, 111 twos and 9 threes) over 16,600 square feet of replacement space for the existing City Ballet School on the 30 Otis Street site which is slated to be razed; 5,600 square feet of ground floor retail space which would divided in three; and a garage for 74 cars and 361 bikes.

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2...comment-336359

homebucket · #**9182** Posted **Jun 14, 2018, 11:09 PM**

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At Risk in a Big Quake: 40 of San Francisco’s Top High Rises
A report by the U.S. Geological Survey includes a list of buildings that are potentially vulnerable to a large quake. Some of San Francisco’s most prominent high rises are on the list.
By Thomas Fuller
June 14, 2018

Experts consider these buildings vulnerable to collapse only in extreme shaking caused by rare and powerful earthquakes, similar to the one that struck San Francisco in 1906.

The list, buried among the seismic calculations of an appendix in the U.S.G.S. report, includes around 40 steel-frame high rises clustered in downtown San Francisco and built between 1960 and 1994, the approximate years when the flawed technique was employed. There are more than 200 high rises in the city.

1. Hartford Building, 650 California

2. Beal Bank Building, 180 Sansome

3. Bechtel Building, 50 Beale

4. 44 Montgomery

5. 425 California Street

6. 555 California Street

7. McKesson Plaza, One Post

8. Pacific Gas & Electric Building, 77 Beale

9. One Embarcadero Center, 355 Clay

10. Transamerica Pyramid, 600 Montgomery

11. 100 Pine Center, 100 Pine

12. 211 Main Street

13. First Market Tower, 525 Market

14. 425 Market Street

15. Two Embarcadero Center

16. 221 Main Street

17. California Automobile Association Building, 100 Van Ness

18. Chevron Tower (Market Center)

19. Spear Tower (One Market Plaza)

20. Steuart Tower (One Market Plaza)

21. Three Embarcadero Center, 155 Clay

22. Shaklee Terraces, 444 Market

23. 333 Market Street

24. 595 Market Street

25. 201 California Street

26. Two Transamerica Center, 505 Sansome

27. 101 California Street

28. Telesis Tower, One Montgomery

29. 1 Ecker Square, 1 Ecker

30. 100 Spear Street

31. 101 Montgomery

32. Citicorp Center, One Sansome

33. 50 Fremont Center

34. 333 Bush Street

35. 345 California Street

36. 301 Howard Street

37. Hilton San Francisco Hotel, 333 O’Farrell

38. San Francisco Marriott, 55 4th

39. Embarcadero West, 275 Battery

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/u...igh-rises.html

Jerry of San Fran · #**9183** Posted **Jun 15, 2018, 1:13 AM**

homebucker - thanks for the story & link. I am glad to see that the Fox Plaza is not on the list as I live there. With that said the Fox Plaza is the midst of being braced for the next Big One.

northbay · #**9184** Posted **Jun 15, 2018, 1:59 AM**

Can the above buildings be retrofitted I wonder?

colemonkee · #**9185** Posted **Jun 15, 2018, 2:42 AM**

^ Most structures can be retrofitted. It's more the cost that's the issue.

timbad · #**9186** Posted **Jun 15, 2018, 6:17 AM**

the hotel at the airport is now becoming visible from Caltrain

viewguysf · #**9187** Posted **Jun 15, 2018, 7:21 PM**

Was the former CAA building at 100 Van Ness retrofitted while it was open during conversion? If not, it would be unbelievable negligence.

Jerry of San Fran · #**9188** Posted **Jun 17, 2018, 7:07 AM**

Change of the skyline in this area. As a reminder the site was where Flax art supply store was for many years.

1699 Market St. at Valencia St.

the urban politician · #**9189** Posted **Jun 17, 2018, 9:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by viewguysf

Taken from Powell and Post at Union Square, the 44-unit condo building under construction at California and Powell has a little tower crane now.

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Condo project at California and Powell by viewguysf, on Flickr[/IMG]

That is a wicked angle

1977 · #**9190** Posted **Jun 19, 2018, 9:18 PM**

Great footage of SF's growing skyline:

Video Link

gillynova · #**9191** Posted **Jun 19, 2018, 10:09 PM**

Amazing video. Thanks for sharing it here!

1977 · #**9192** Posted **Jun 20, 2018, 5:42 PM**

950 Market update from JK Dineen:

https://twitter.com/SFjkdineen/statu...65720663564289

And an update from Hoodline:
https://hoodline.com/2018/06/demolit...et-development

tech12 · #**9193** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 6:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by 1977

Great footage of SF's growing skyline:

Video Link

really cool video, but lol at this clueless LA resident trying to tell hundreds of thousands of SF natives, living and dead, who use/have used the name "Frisco" for well over a century, that they can't call SF "Frisco".

pseudolus · #**9194** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 6:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by tech12

really cool video, but lol at this clueless LA resident trying to tell hundreds of thousands of SF natives, living and dead, who use/have used the name "Frisco" for well over a century, that they can't call SF "Frisco".

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Call-Fri.../dp/B002IAO010

tech12 · #**9195** Posted **Jun 21, 2018, 7:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by pseudolus

https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Call-Fri.../dp/B002IAO010

Herb Caen was a transplant (surprise) from Sacramento who later admitted that he was wrong to claim that people shouldn't call it Frisco, because people (specifically, working class people) had been calling it Frisco forever, and it wasn't his place to tell them what they could call their city.

Of course SF's upper class loves to perpetuate the "no Frisco" thing, though, and they control the messaging, because rich people control everything, as always...you know, the media, tourism industry , etc. So then you have tourists and transplants who get told not say Frisco, and they just go along with it, which is further reinforced by the fact that they're surrounded by fellow clueless newbies, in a city where only 20% of the residents are natives (let alone natives of the demographics who regularly say "Frisco"...a significant minority to be fair, but still a minority).

gillynova · #**9196** Posted **Jun 24, 2018, 4:15 PM**

Does anyone have a link to an active construction cam in SF? Thanks in advance

fimiak · #**9197** Posted **Jun 24, 2018, 6:02 PM**

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Originally Posted by gillynova

Does anyone have a link to an active construction cam in SF? Thanks in advance

I have a few in my signature.

Here are some more:

https://app.oxblue.com/open/clarkconstruction/parktower

https://app.oxblue.com/open/clarkconstruction/block5

https://app.oxblue.com/open/clarkcon...on/chasecenter

http://tjpa.org/construction-updates...s/beale-camera

Please don't link them on a blog or something, if the bandwidth spikes they may be taken down.

*throws starburst*
Don't say I never gave you anything.

gillynova · #**9198** Posted **Jun 24, 2018, 9:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by fimiak

I have a few in my signature.

Here are some more:

https://app.oxblue.com/open/clarkconstruction/parktower

https://app.oxblue.com/open/clarkconstruction/block5

https://app.oxblue.com/open/clarkcon...on/chasecenter

http://tjpa.org/construction-updates...s/beale-camera

Please don't link them on a blog or something, if the bandwidth spikes they may be taken down.

*throws starburst*
Don't say I never gave you anything.

Haha I wasn't planning to post them on a blog or anything. I just wanted to how SF is like personally.

Thanks for the links!

Pedestrian · #**9199** Posted **Jun 24, 2018, 11:40 PM**

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Originally Posted by tech12

people (specifically, working class people) had been calling it Frisco forever, and it wasn't his place to tell them what they could call their city.

Strange: I've literally never, ever heard anyone who lives in the city call it "Frisco" without irony or sarcasm.

viewguysf · #**9200** Posted **Jun 25, 2018, 9:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Pedestrian

Strange: I've literally never, ever heard anyone who lives in the city call it "Frisco" without irony or sarcasm.

Me either, and I know and have worked with many natives of various ages. Several of my friends are third generation or more.