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

[Jerry of San Fran]

101 Polk development is coming along - I notice windows installed on the first 2 floors & the mechanical room on the room has it's studs in place.

Behind the crane is the opera house. Note the lifts with lights. A movie is being filmed there called "Steve Jobs". People were invited to be extras today.

In the upper right is one of 2 cranes at the California Pacific Hospital construction site.

101 Polk Street
03/16/2015 view from 14 floor, Essex Fox Plaza

[Jerry of San Fran]

Here is a night view of the highrise construction south of Market & Rincon Hill. The construction crane in the foreground is at Trinity Place III.
Rincon Hill Area - 03/20/2015

[fflint]

Originally Posted by Jerry of San Fran

101 Polk development is coming along - I notice windows installed on the first 2 floors & the mechanical room on the room has it's studs in place.

Behind the crane is the opera house. Note the lifts with lights. A movie is being filmed there called "Steve Jobs". People were invited to be extras today.

In the upper right is one of 2 cranes at the California Pacific Hospital construction site.

101 Polk Street
03/16/2015 view from 14 floor, Essex Fox Plaza

What's going on with Our Lady of Maytag?

[Jerry of San Fran]

fflint - Our Lady Maytag, aka the virgin's breast from the shadow on the building - nothing is happening. If you click on the image for a larger view you will see that The Summit retirement condo is behind St. Mary's which makes it look like a part of the church.

I did not get to see the old church that burned at the site though I was in the city at the time. The structure was originally designed to have lines that sweep down to the ground level but due to earthquake concerns a box structure was chosen instead.

[JWS]

Sorry if this has been posted already, but literally the best nighttime skyline photos of this city I've ever seen.

https://www.storehouse.co/stories/r8...francisco-7-2k

[simms3_redux]

Originally Posted by JWS

Sorry if this has been posted already, but literally the best nighttime skyline photos of this city I've ever seen.

https://www.storehouse.co/stories/r8...francisco-7-2k

Some interesting quotes from this photo story:

Flying over San Francisco is daunting - unlike New York City and Vegas that have clear borders, this is a city that never seems to end. And I frankly think I've only scratched the surface so far.

I guess...not sure I understand this as New York to me never seems to end.

From above you can see just how vast this city is - and how incredibly tightly packed it is. Somehow even New York feels a little less jammed with people - which clearly makes no sense logically. But then, New York is a small island with clear borders.

Again, interesting quote that I'm not sure I agree with. New York feels packed, is packed, and looks packed both from the air and from the ground. Perhaps San Francisco is distant #2 in this regard, and that would make sense.

And you can't help but help but remember the history of this city as a major commercial port and the fact that half of downtown is built up on what used to be docks. Notably you can't help but to remember how the entire city was rebuilt after the devastating earthquake of 1906 and the fire that levelled the city.

The picture backing up the quote above is pretty fantastic.

And then there's the grid of downtown... WOW is all that I can say. This is such a truly linear city on the one hand - yet this perfect 45 degree clash of grids is unlike anything I've ever seen before!

Some city planners clearly had a wicked sense of humour when they clashed the two grids near Market Street. I've never seen anything like it yet anywhere else...

Totally true!

It is a true feat of engineering and city planning that so many people can live in such a confined place with crazy hills that seem to shoot up and out of the earth.

Very true.

Yet there is something that is also a little disquieting about the city at the same time. You do ask yourself: did they just pack too many people in one place?

And perhaps that's why the bridges play such an important role in San Francisco. They are a gateway to the absolutely incredible nature that surrounds the city. The variety of what you will find within a 3 hours drive in any direction from San Francisco is what truly makes this city incredible and unlike any other in the world to me.

You can almost feel the pulse of the city through the perfectly lined up carlights and brake lights in downtown. Like blood flowing thru veins.

True - the bridges are the gateway to a whole world of nature and within the bridges is a very dense, buzzing city. Unique dynamic.

The one odd remark that I have to share is that I find that New York city can feel truly oppressive from the ground, especially as the skyscrapers tower over you - one can feel like an ant. But from the air the city feels perfectly balanced to me.

When I'm on the ground in San Francisco I feel incredibly mellow and at peace. But from the air, I have to admit it feels oddly a bit too crowded and just a bit too jam-packed to me.

Unique take, not sure I understand.

[simms3_redux]

3/15/15

Photos that capture some / an array of projects in the city.


IMG_7823 by simms3sf, on Flickr


IMG_7824 by simms3sf, on Flickr


IMG_7825 by simms3sf, on Flickr


IMG_7830 by simms3sf, on Flickr


IMG_7834 by simms3sf, on Flickr


IMG_7850 by simms3sf, on Flickr


IMG_7851 by simms3sf, on Flickr


Bonus shot of financial district on a Saturday evening:


IMG_7857 by simms3sf, on Flickr

[timbad]

thanks for all the shots, simms! in a few of the individual threads I've added a couple from this weekend where we had almost the same angle, for comparison.

here's the SFMOMA from Yerba Buena. I'm a little disappointed with this one, since it is too easy to see (at least in real life, maybe not in this photo) the difference in construction material between the segments of the skin that have the rippling effect, and those that are smooth. makes it look clunky to me.



DrobBox on Brannan:

[timbad]

might as well throw this in here... the view of the changing skyline from Mission Bay bayfront:

[JWS]

Originally Posted by simms3_redux

I guess...not sure I understand this as New York to me never seems to end.

Those quotes make infinitely more sense if you make the assumption that he is confusing "Manhattan" with "New York", and additionally if he is assuming Daly City/South San Francisco/San Bruno esque sprawl are still in SF. This guy seems to be a photographer first and foremost, so his knowledge about city limits may not extend beyond layperson levels. For example, my wife who has been a Bay Area native her entire life and has lived in SF for 8+ years, recently estimated San Francisco as having 3,000,000 people in it. We know boundaries and populations far beyond what the average person does.

[Jerry of San Fran]

I saw workers drilling for soil core samples today next to the Goodwill property on 11th street between Market and Mission streets. As many of you may know Goodwill is or has sold it's property bounded by 11th, Mission and South Van Ness which is a very substantial property. Highrise development is planned there. I strongly suspect the core samples are in relation to the future highrise construction at the site.

Core Samples

[chris08876]

If you all recall Vicent Laforet, who was the guy who took those amazing NYC aerials at night (his pics can be found in the aerial new york thread), he now did San Francisco.

I know this is a development thread, but they are niiiceee. And what better place to put it then where San Franciscans always look.

Anyways, enjoy...

Video Link

Credit: http://www.urdesignmag.com/design/20...san-francisco/

[minesweeper]

J.K. Dineen has a story on all the missing glass:

Major S.F. construction projects stalled by late glass deliveries

It’s impolite to stare. But take a walk through Rincon Hill these days and you can’t help but notice that some of the tallest new towers on the San Francisco skyline are looking rather bare — nothing but bones where you’d expect to see a shiny glass skin.

The phenomenon is being driven both by the recently resolved nine-month West Coast port contract dispute, which caused long delays in the shipment of glass curtain-wall systems to San Francisco, as well as a new reliance on untested glass manufacturers in China. The lag is costing developers millions of dollars and will ultimately mean that badly needed housing — both market rate and affordable — will be delivered months behind schedule.

[mt_climber13]

^^Manhattan of the West for sure.

Or.. New York's gay cousin. (Un- PC, yes, but always loved that quip)

[northbay]

Those are some awesome night pics!

Originally Posted by wakamesalad

^^Manhattan of the West for sure.

Or.. New York's gay cousin. (Un- PC, yes, but always loved that quip)

It's the People's Gay Republic of Drugafornia! (From 30 Rock)

[minesweeper]

It's that time again... county and metro population estimates for 2014 were released by the Census Bureau today.

Here are the year-over-year estimated changes (2013 to 2014):

• Alameda County (+27695, +1.7%) from 1,583,226 to 1,610,921
• Contra Costa County (+15359, +1.4%) from 1,095,980 to 1,111,339
• Marin County (+1929, +0.7%) from 258,821 to 260,750
• Napa County (+1087, +0.8%) from 140,580 to 141,667
• San Francisco (+11331, +1.3%) from 841,138 to 852,469
• San Mateo County (+8092, +1.1%) from 750,489 to 758,581
• Santa Clara County (+23498, +1.3%) from 1,871,107 to 1,894,605
• Solano County (+5912, +1.4%) from 425,219 to 431,131
• Sonoma County (+4860, +1.0%) from 495,432 to 500,292

• San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA Metro Area grew by 64,406 (1.4%) from 4,529,654 (2013) to 4,594,060 (2014)
• San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area grew by 24,171 (1.3%) from 1,928,701 (2013) to 1,952,872 (2014)

Since 2010, SF has grown by 47,234 people or 5.9% (from 805,235). Or, another way of looking at it: SF has grown by about 11,800 people each year since 2010. In terms of population density, the city has grown from 17,180 people per sq. mile in 2010 to 18,187 per sq. mile in 2014.

Here's all the Bay Area county estimates in one chart.

[fimiak]

Originally Posted by minesweeper

It's that time again... county and metro population estimates for 2014 were released by the Census Bureau today.

Here are the year-over-year estimated changes (2013 to 2014):

• Alameda County (+27695, +1.7%) from 1,583,226 to 1,610,921
• Contra Costa County (+15359, +1.4%) from 1,095,980 to 1,111,339
• Marin County (+1929, +0.7%) from 258,821 to 260,750
• Napa County (+1087, +0.8%) from 140,580 to 141,667
• San Francisco (+11331, +1.3%) from 841,138 to 852,469
• San Mateo County (+8092, +1.1%) from 750,489 to 758,581
• Santa Clara County (+23498, +1.3%) from 1,871,107 to 1,894,605
• Solano County (+5912, +1.4%) from 425,219 to 431,131
• Sonoma County (+4860, +1.0%) from 495,432 to 500,292

• San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA Metro Area grew by 64,406 (1.4%) from 4,529,654 (2013) to 4,594,060 (2014)
• San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area grew by 24,171 (1.3%) from 1,928,701 (2013) to 1,952,872 (2014)

Since 2010, SF has grown by 47,234 people or 5.9% (from 805,235). Or, another way of looking at it: SF has grown by about 11,800 people each year since 2010. In terms of population density, the city has grown from 17,180 people per sq. mile in 2010 to 18,187 per sq. mile in 2014.

Here's all the Bay Area county estimates in one chart.

I am going to shamelessly absorb this data into my signature! Thanks. At this rate we will probably hit 1 million residents in SF by 2028. Surprisingly to me, Alameda County was the big grower in both absolute and relative terms, even though it seems not much housing is going up. For SF to reach ~NYC level of density (25,000p/sq mi), it will require 1,175,000 residents, which would be in 2044 at current growth rates (11.3k/yr). The growth rate will probably fluctuate in that time, but as an estimate I think it shows that SF has a lot more to grow.

[a very long weekend]

man, blows me away that we can absorb so many people every year with such negligible residential construction.

[toxteth o'grady]

Well, if you're willing to let property values become insanely expensive, anything's possible.

I've lived long enough to remember the late '70s, when $250,000 was expensive and the city looked very different. Of course, when developers start tearing down single houses in order to put up a dozen cubes, you will have Houston.

[fflint]

Originally Posted by minesweeper

It's that time again... county and metro population estimates for 2014 were released by the Census Bureau today.

Here are the year-over-year estimated changes (2013 to 2014):

• Alameda County (+27695, +1.7%) from 1,583,226 to 1,610,921
• Contra Costa County (+15359, +1.4%) from 1,095,980 to 1,111,339
• Marin County (+1929, +0.7%) from 258,821 to 260,750
• Napa County (+1087, +0.8%) from 140,580 to 141,667
• San Francisco (+11331, +1.3%) from 841,138 to 852,469
• San Mateo County (+8092, +1.1%) from 750,489 to 758,581
• Santa Clara County (+23498, +1.3%) from 1,871,107 to 1,894,605
• Solano County (+5912, +1.4%) from 425,219 to 431,131
• Sonoma County (+4860, +1.0%) from 495,432 to 500,292

• San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA Metro Area grew by 64,406 (1.4%) from 4,529,654 (2013) to 4,594,060 (2014)
• San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area grew by 24,171 (1.3%) from 1,928,701 (2013) to 1,952,872 (2014)

Since 2010, SF has grown by 47,234 people or 5.9% (from 805,235). Or, another way of looking at it: SF has grown by about 11,800 people each year since 2010. In terms of population density, the city has grown from 17,180 people per sq. mile in 2010 to 18,187 per sq. mile in 2014.

Here's all the Bay Area county estimates in one chart.

Awesome! I look forward to Census Bureau data dumps.

As of July 2014, the San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland CSA had a population of 8,607,423.

That is an increase of 453,727 residents since the 2010 Census.

Of that total population increase, 205,027 was by 'natural increase' and 252,641 was due to in-migration: 204,320 foreign and 48,321 domestic.

That last figure seems low until you realize CSAs like New York (-592,022), Chicago (-245,645) and Los Angeles (-179,237) have massively negative domestic migration figures.