SoMa


Millennium Tower from Main Street and Mission Street, with the 11-story addition visible infront of the 58-story tower, 77 Beale is on the right of the image, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Number 8: Millennium Tower in SoMa, San Francisco

The eighth tallest skyscraper in the Bay Area planned or built is the Millennium Tower, a 645-foot tall residential building at 301 Mission Street in SoMa, San Francisco. Developed by Millennium Partners, the project was built between 2005 and 2009 opened as the tallest residential tower west of Chicago. Since 2016, the building has garnered international news for both tilting and sinking.

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One Rincon Hill with The Harrison in the background, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Number 9: One Rincon Hill at 425 1st Street, SoMa, San Francisco

The ninth tallest tower in the Bay Area planned or built is One Rincon Hill, one of the tallest fully residential buildings west of the Mississippi River. Finished in 2008, the 641-foot tower led the procession of construction that now defines Rincon Hill and the southern portion of San Francisco’s SoMa skyline overlooking the Bay Bridge. Solomon Cordwell Buenz is the project architect.

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469 Stevenson Street facade elevation, drawing by Solomon Cordwell Buenz

Supervisors to Consider Appeal for 469 Stevenson Street, SoMa, San Francisco

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is scheduled to consider an appeal of 469 Stevenson Street, a proposed 27-story mixed-use addition to SoMa. Filed by the Yerba Buena Neighborhood Consortium, the appeal claims the project’s environmental review was inadequate and unsafe. Both the project developer and city staff rebuke each claim as inaccurate and an attempt to stall the high-rise residential addition to the neighborhood.

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