SAN FRANCISCO | Jasper | 450 FT / 137 M | 45 FLOORS | U/C

[viewguysf]

Originally Posted by ElDuderino

Again, nothing special, but its a welcome addition, and Rincon Hill is going to look much better in a couple years.

I think this rendering makes it look like an unworthy addition, badly in need of a redesign. This tower could block views of the much improved 375 Fremont too.

[timbad]

socketsite tells us what minesweeper already did two months ago...

[minesweeper]

Here's an updated rendering (left image) I found on crescentheights.com.

It looks less yellow than the original rendering, and the podium looks a bit different.



Considering they have all permits in hand, it would be great if they broke ground soon.

[ltsmotorsport]

New rendering looks good. Hope they start moving on this one soon.

[1977]

There are some renderings of the base of the tower I hadn't seen before over at HKS.

[minesweeper]

Not sure how close we are to groundbreaking, but the developer filed for permits for excavation and shoring in February. They haven't actually been issued yet by the Planning Dept though. The construction company listed is the Build Group.

I've mirrored those renderings of the tower base, in case the website takes them down:

[sahran]

Looks like 45 Lansing has broken ground!

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2...ncon_hill.html

[mt_climber13]

Originally Posted by minesweeper

Not sure how close we are to groundbreaking, but the developer filed for permits for excavation and shoring in February. They haven't actually been issued yet by the Planning Dept though. The construction company listed is the Build Group.

I've mirrored those renderings of the tower base, in case the website takes them down:

What a depressing street experience on Harrison-
how does the city expect to create a livable, walkable neighborhood when these towers have no retail and blank walls with large garage door openings jutting out? Lots of lost opportunity.

[mthd]

Originally Posted by wakamesalad

What a depressing street experience on Harrison-
how does the city expect to create a livable, walkable neighborhood when these towers have no retail and blank walls with large garage door openings jutting out? Lots of lost opportunity.

these small lots are a challenge. buildings need entrances for loading and parking, access to utilities, exhaust and intake air, etc. while it's theoretically possible to reduce all of this to a single garage door, it's astronomically expensive and wasteful of space on every floor of the building. i don't think they've done a great job here, but the strategy is obviously to focus pedestrian activity on folsom (which is what the plan says to do!).

[timbad]

this is what the site looked like early this evening:



agree with mthd in that I'm not as concerned on this stretch of Harrison about the pedestrian experience. I might be wrong, but my guess is that most casual walkers are not going to make the effort to huff up and down the hill.

[minesweeper]

Nice to see this one finally breaking ground. I was browsing through the planning PDF and noticed that it provides an actual structural height for the tower, which is 430 feet.

It's 400 feet to the roof line, and an additional 30 feet of mechanical screening (the numbers are on the third-to-last page of the PDF). I don't know anyone who can change the thread title will see this comment, but there you go.

It looks like they put the loading dock and garage entrance on Harrison so that the streetscape on Lansing will be better. The developers are planning on transforming that whole street:

[timbad]

thanks for that, minesweeper. nice to see some attention being paid to that mini-neighborhood in there.

here is a closer-up view of the site from this afternoon:

[simms3_redux]

May 3...construction crews were hard work.

[timbad]

still clearing the site, it looks like, altho if anything, it looks more cluttered now than it did a month or two ago

[timbad]

they've gotten incredibly deep in a short amount of time:

[simms3_redux]

That's basically still where 350 Mission is at. I'm very glad to see this progress - thought about walking over this weekend but didn't. Thanks!

I really think this go in the Highrise Construction thread at this point. It's happening...foundation work is only a couple more weeks away, a month at the most.

[simms3_redux]

No word on financing yet (unlike Lumina, which is much further behind and has already been publicly issued one of the largest construction loans of the year). I still think this should be moved to official construction as the sponsor is Crescent Heights (NEMA and other devs in city wrapping up).

[rocketman_95046]

^simms, thanks for the updates.

Fyi the mods won't move it to construction until something structural is put in place.

i.e pilings, foundation etc. excavating is not considered construction. That is the rule.

[simms3_redux]

From: http://www.socketsite.com/

In the words of a camera toting tipster, "Just like in Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, they've dug deep enough over at 45 Lansing that they'll now need a crane to remove the backhoes" from the basement of the 39-story Rincon Hill condo tower to rise.

Hopefully that means tower crane coming soon, and a move of this project over to Highrise Construction (no word so far as I know on financing, unlike at Tishman's project - THAT to me is always a sure sign a development deal is definitely happening).

[simms3_redux]

Originally Posted by timbad

they've gotten incredibly deep in a short amount of time:

Understatement of the year - check this out! (I guess all for the mechanical garage)





I was actually kind of shocked - I thought after my last visit the hole was deep and they would flatten out and prepare for foundation and crane installation, but they kept digging! It's almost as deep as the 6-7 floor building behind it is tall!