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Hard to imagine that some of these brick structures might be gone in the end :

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According to this note on BisNow, they will start putting up structural steel in late summer or early fall.
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Snipit from The Chronicle

Transbay Transit Center will open without signature park

J.K. Dineen

June 25, 2014 | Updated: June 25, 2014 11:08pm
Pedestrians pass the site of the future Transbay Terminal on 415 Mission St. in San Francisco, Calif. on Wednesday, June 25, 2015, 2014. The Transbay Terminal will not be able to open with a public rooftop park without the aide of the private sector.

James Tensuan, The Chronicle

The future Transbay Transit Center, in an area short of green space, was designed with a rooftop park that helped win support for the project. The $1.9 billion development could open without the park unless more funding can be found.
The $1.9 billion Transbay Transit Center will open without its signature rooftop park unless the city of San Francisco can come up with $24 million in private donations and nonprofit grants to pay for the green space.
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$24MM? We all know that will turn into $150MM, lol. However, that's chump change for this city and I can't imagine out of all the bazillionaires here someone not finding it in them to seek naming rights for a signature park!
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$24MM? We all know that will turn into $150MM, lol. However, that's chump change for this city and I can't imagine out of all the bazillionaires here someone not finding it in them to seek naming rights for a signature park!


SocketSite says $300 million over That is definitely not chump change.

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2...k-delayed.html
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SocketSite says $300 million over That is definitely not chump change.

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2...k-delayed.html
The project is $300 million over. That is why they are delaying the park. They are saying that to build the park they would only need $24 million. I number that seems like chump change for many of these developers. I wouldnt be surprised if some these tower developers with direct park connection make an effort to pool some extra money together.
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And...it seems the park is somehow back on. I'm not exactly sure how $24 million became $37 million in a few days...

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Hope for Transbay park after all
By J.K. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle

(06-30) 19:32 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The 2017 opening of the $37 million Transbay Transit Center Rooftop Park is back on - but how the city is going to pay for it is, like the green space itself, very much up in the air.

Less than a week after The Chronicle reported that cost overruns would delay the construction of the 5.4-acre elevated park until after the transit center opens, staffers from Mayor Ed Lee's administration say they will make sure the park opens at the same time at the Transit Center. That's scheduled for late 2017.

On Monday Ken Rich, development director from the Mayor's Office of Economic and Workforce Development, said the mayor is "committed to making it happen."

"We would like to find a different source of funding - that is what we are working on," Rich said...
Full article: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/articl...ck-5591531.php
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Hines was supposed to fund the park initially. They were also supposed to give the city $350 million for the land of the tower and ended up giving them half that. SF is so inept at development and planning for the future. Even LA, known for its car centric lifestyle, is building a new downtown transit hub that will connect many forms of rail and buses. Right now, Transbay is the most expensive transit hub under construction in the world, and is so far only a bus stop for MUNI, AC Transit, and Greyhound. This is becoming more of a burden then a boon for the city, unless real politicians are elected that will solve the problems of getting CalTrain extended and HSR built, providing access to BART and MUNI metro from the terminal, and extending the light rail/ subway down to Fisherman's wharf and down Geary. .
Right now, SF is becoming more car centric than LA!

And not to mention the new Bay Bridge, the most expensive infrastructure project in California history, which is now mostly defective less than a year after opening. It's stuff like this that incites movements like the Tea Party and other anarchist groups.
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Hines was supposed to fund the park initially. They were also supposed to give the city $350 million for the land of the tower and ended up giving them half that. SF is so inept at development and planning for the future. Even LA, known for its car centric lifestyle, is building a new downtown transit hub that will connect many forms of rail and buses. Right now, Transbay is the most expensive transit hub under construction in the world, and is so far only a bus stop for MUNI, AC Transit, and Greyhound. This is becoming more of a burden then a boon for the city, unless real politicians are elected that will solve the problems of getting CalTrain extended and HSR built, providing access to BART and MUNI metro from the terminal, and extending the light rail/ subway down to Fisherman's wharf and down Geary. .
Right now, SF is becoming more car centric than LA!

And not to mention the new Bay Bridge, the most expensive infrastructure project in California history, which is now mostly defective less than a year after opening. It's stuff like this that incites movements like the Tea Party and other anarchist groups.
San Francisco: your tax dollars go shorter here!

thankfully, we aren't becoming more car centric, but only because we don't have much of a road/highway infrastructure, there's almost no parking, and housing is so expensive, most people can't afford a car
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^^I can't argue with the rest of it, but you have to blame CalTrans (or maybe also Oakland officials for insisting on something iconic) for the cost and time on the Bay Bridge. SF had nothing to do with that.

Still not much to see, and I think it will be Fall at best before we see steel rising given what I can tell anyway.

Here, you can see they still have work to do on the walls below street level:


This is really from 181 Fremont, but you can see a bit of the terminal site in the background:


The far west end (with 222 Second St under construction in the background:


Edit: Just read an article that says the steel should arrive in October.
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Apparently steel is on-site and will be assembled by two cranes. Bisnow reports that the pieces for the first crane arrived yesterday and are being assembled. I'm assuming they are referring to tower cranes, but haven't been out to check it out today. Steel assembly to "begin in earnest" in a week or two.
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Awesome! Thanks for the info simms. It will be cool to finally see this coming out of the ground.

Now if only they would resolve the mello roos....
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And not to mention the new Bay Bridge, the most expensive infrastructure project in California history, which is now mostly defective less than a year after opening. It's stuff like this that incites movements like the Tea Party and other anarchist groups.
Let me take a guess. Skanska was involved?
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Looks like crawlers will be lifting steel.

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^I read somewhere that that is indeed the case. Shouldn't be long now until this starts rising out of the huge hole.
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Steel rising:



Heavier machinery along Howard:


Originally thought this crane might be for 41 Tehama, but on closer inspection it is also for the TBTC.
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Going vertical at last. I wonder if we'll soon hear something official and more concrete about that mini-Bay Bridge approach from I-80. It's been in tons of renderings but I haven't seen anything that confirms it or really any mention of it verbally or in writing.
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Going vertical at last. I wonder if we'll soon hear something official and more concrete about that mini-Bay Bridge approach from I-80. It's been in tons of renderings but I haven't seen anything that confirms it or really any mention of it verbally or in writing.
It's actually under construction now.
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