The city’s Board of Supervisors has granted approval for the proposed 41-story mixed-use tower and associated fire station at 447 Battery Street and 530 Sansome Street in San Francisco’s Financial District. The project is a public-private partnership between the city and Related California with plans for office space, hotel rooms, and a replacement for S.F. Fire Station No. 13.
According to reporting by Patrick Hoge for the San Francisco Examiner, Related California is considering starting construction as early as next year. Hoge adds that the firm is confident in demand for modern Class-A office space and high-end hotel rooms.
530 Sansome Street tower base, rendering by SOM
530 Sansome Street seen between Embarcadero Center and the Transamerica Pyramid, rendering by SOM
The 574-foot-tall structure is expected to yield around 649,500 square feet, including 230,100 square feet of hotel space, 412,000 square feet of office space, and 7,400 square feet for retail and restaurant space. The hotel will include 200 rooms on floors four through 15. Office space will occupy floors 16 through 41, with employee amenities centralized on the 16th and 17th floors. Parking will be included for 74 cars and 104 bicycles.
The ground level will include a cafe, hotel arrival room, and office lobby. The second floor will include more hotel space and 4,000 square feet for a restaurant overlooking Washington Street. The third floor will include the hotel lobby connected to the top floor of the restaurant, two meeting rooms, and a ballroom.
530 Sansome Street hotel entrance, rendering by SOM
530 Sansome Street showing pedestrian activity, rendering by SOM
Skidmore Owings & Merrill is the project architect. Alongside elevations and facade detail images, the primary rendering for the project shows the tower rising between the Transamerica Pyramid and Embarcadero Center.
The newly proposed Fire Station No. 13 will rise 55 feet tall with four floors above a basement garage. The first floor will include space for three fire engines and a fire truck with four bay doors facing Battery Street. The rest of the station will include dining space, dormitories, and other amenities for firefighters.
530 Sansome Street mid-block alley design in comparison with the Transamerica Pyramid redesign of Mark Twain Alley,
530 Sansome Street, image via Google Street View
The project site spans three parcels, including the fire station at 530 Sansome Street and two vacant commercial structures at 425 and 435-445 Washington Street. The property is directly across from Three Transamerica at 545 Sansome Street and One Maritime Plaza across Battery Street.
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Good. Long overdue.
Agree!!!
would love to see cranes in downtown as soon as possible
Agree!!
I’m generally not a fan of regulation, but I’m open to both of these in SF:
– No approvals for new office space until the vacancy rate is at ~20% or lower, or perhaps 2030. It’s at ~33% right now which is absurdly high historically. This new Class A office space is just burying the Class B and Class C stuff further into oblivion, where it will need to be demolished. Give the system time to adjust from the COVID shock.
– All multi-family residential construction must include some percentage of apartments 3 bedrooms or higher. We need space for families, space for roommates, and to fight the loneliness epidemic. I don’t think the free market will sort this one out. Developers will keep cranking out studios and one bedrooms all day since they make more money.
the government dictating the types of housing/office space we “should” or “shouldn’t” have will inevitably increase the prices for everyone.
Why not just allow people to rent the types of spaces they personally prefer, independent of whether a legislative body / committee agrees with that preference?
Your first proposal is asking the rest of the city (specifically the rest of the property tax base) to prop up the deadbeat landlords that have not done anything to make their Class B and Class C buildings leaseable. Not all Class B and Class C buildings are vacant … just the bad ones. I have zero interest in paying more in property taxes to cover the gap caused by unproductive Class B and Class C office building owners. Awful idea.
The city should incentivize companies to leave older office buildings into these denser developments, and redevelop the older ones into housing. A lot of low-rise office buildings spread out throughout SOMA. Good project, love to see more density.
Has the construction schedule been made public yet? Curious to see how it’ll be phased and the project timeline. I imagine demo for the building on Sansome and new firehouse will have to happen before demo and excavation for the tower… I fear this one may take a while (esp given its start date is still prob a few years out).
Very exciting to see some large scale development finally starting back up.
A handsome building and very nice ground floor.
I wish the mojo of the base could extend up into the tower. The horizontal split and retreat to standard curtain wall above is jarring and makes the tower feel pro-forma.