Format
Full
City
San Francisco
State/Province
CA
Country
USA
Metro Area
San Francisco
Project Type
Office Building(s)
Location Type
Central Business District
Land Uses
Fitness Center
Office
Parking
Restaurant
Retail
Supermarket
Keywords
Adaptive use
Atrium
Healthy place features
High-density layouts
Historic preservation
Large floor plans
LEED Gold certified
Plaza
Renovation
Resilient design
Seismic retrofit
Tech-oriented tenants
Transit-oriented development
Site Size
3.06
acres
acres
hectares
Date Started
2011
Date Opened
2014
Market Square is an office and retail project consisting of two buildings—one with 11 stories and 749,831 square feet and the second with ten stories and 338,280 square feet, including ground-level retail. The development effort involved historic renovation and adaptive use of the larger historic building and a complete renovation and recladding of the smaller building. The entire complex is located on a one-block site in the Mid-Market area of downtown San Francisco, a recently emerged location for tech tenants and new multifamily development. A large percentage of the 982,267 square feet of office space has been leased to Twitter for its corporate headquarters. The project also contains 85,435 square feet of retail and restaurant space, including a 22,040-square-foot food market, three restaurants, a pharmacy, and a fitness center. It is Gold certified under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.
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Format
Full
City
San Francisco
State/Province
CA
Country
USA
Metro Area
San Francisco
Project Type
Office Building(s)
Location Type
Central Business District
Land Uses
Fitness Center
Office
Parking
Restaurant
Retail
Supermarket
Keywords
Adaptive use
Atrium
Healthy place features
High-density layouts
Historic preservation
Large floor plans
LEED Gold certified
Plaza
Renovation
Resilient design
Seismic retrofit
Tech-oriented tenants
Transit-oriented development
Site Size
3.06
acres
acres
hectares
Date Started
2011
Date Opened
2014
Website
Marketsquaresf.com
Project address
1355 Market Street and 1 Tenth Street
San Francisco, California 94104
Developer/owner
Shorenstein Properties LLC
235 Montgomery Street, 16th floor
San Francisco, California 94104
shorenstein.com
Architect (core and shell)
RMW architecture & interiors
San Francisco, California
rmw.com
Architect (retail/public space)
BCV Architects
San Francisco, California
bcvarch.com
Architect (historic)
Page & Turnbull
San Francisco, California
page-turnbull.com
General contractor
BNBuilders
San Francisco, California
Structural engineer
Murphy Burr Curry
San Francisco, California
Mechanical engineer
ACCO
San Leandro, California
Civil engineer
CSW/Stuber-Stroeh Engineering Group
Novato, California
Landscape architect
CMG Landscape Architecture
San Francisco, California
Interviewees
Paul Grafft, senior vice president, asset management, Shorenstein Properties LLC
Tom McDonnell, senior vice president, leasing, Shorenstein Properties LLC
Todd Sklar, senior vice president, head of development group, Shorenstein Properties LLC
Chris Foley, principal, Polaris Pacific
Terry Kwik, principal, RMW architecture & interiors
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