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300 South 1st Street Hero view, rendering courtesy Westbank

Meeting Today To Review DEIR and Potential Skybridge for Orchard Workspace, Downtown San Jose

The San Jose planning department is scheduled to review the draft supplemental environmental impact report for Orchard Workspace in Downtown San Jose at 6 PM today. Orchard Workspace consists of two proposed office towers as high as 301 feet above street level with new retail at 300 South 1st Street and 345 South 2nd Street. The major revelation ahead of the meeting is that a new sky bridge is considered to connect the two office buildings on levels ten and eleven. The project is one of several prospective San Jose projects with Gary Dillabough and Westbank as the joint developers.

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Spear Tower in One Market Plaza from Treasure Island, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Number 21: Spear Tower at One Market Plaza, SoMa, San Francisco

The 21st tallest tower in the Bay Area planned or built is Spear Tower in SoMa, San Francisco. Rising to a 564-foot pinnacle, Spear Tower is the taller of a two-towered complex, One Market Plaza. Rising across the Embarcadero, the development was completed in 1976, connecting the two new towers with the 11-story 1916-built Landmark Building on Market Street. Welton Becket Associates is the building architect.

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1655 Berryessa Road Site Plan

Meeting Scheduled For a Large Scale Mixed-Use At 1655 Berryessa Road In San Jose

A joint community and environmental public scoping meeting for a project at 1655 Berryessa Road in San Jose have been scheduled. The project proposal includes the development of a mixed-use building with apartments and commercial space. Under the project, the three existing industrial buildings, ancillary structures, and a parking lot will be demolished. Trees on the site would be removed

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One Sansome Street, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

Number 22: One Sansome Street, Financial District, San Francisco

One Sansome Street ranks as the 22nd tallest skyscraper in the Bay Area, planned or built. With a rooftop height 551 feet above street level, the structure is host to over half a million square feet of office space available in the Financial District since it opened in 1984. William L. Pereira & Associates, best remembered for designing the Transamerica Pyramid, was the architecture firm behind One Sansome.

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