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Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Well, here it is:
“Transbay Transit Tower, tallest building in San Francisco, breaks ground
Pelli Clarke Pelli tower joins Transbay Transit Center
SAN FRANCISCO, March 27, 2013 — Officials ceremonially broke ground today for Transbay Transit Tower, the building by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects that will be San Francisco’s tallest.
Standing 1,070 feet tall (326 meters), the 60-story office tower will be the tallest on the West Coast and the seventh tallest in the U.S. The tower will connect directly to the Transbay Transit Center, a multi-modal transportation hub also designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. Together, the tower and the transit center form the new heart of a revitalized neighborhood.
“The Transbay Transit Tower and neighboring Transbay Transit Center are powerful individual buildings designed with a common civic purpose–to create the 21st century gateway to San Francisco and a state-of-the-art place marker on its skyline,” said Fred Clarke, senior principal of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. “Embodying sustainable, transit-based development, the tower combined with the transit center is a model for the future of our cities.”
The tower takes the timeless form of the obelisk and has a slender, tapering silhouette. The walls are composed of clear glass with pearlescent white, metal accents. These horizontal and vertical accents gradually taper in depth to accentuate the curved glass corners. The walls rise past the top floor to form a transparent crown that appears to dissolve into the sky. Carved into the tower top is a vertical facet that will be lit at night. Like the transit center, the design for the tower emphasizes sustainability and has a LEED Gold objective.
“Transbay Transit Tower will be a new icon for the city and state,” said Paul Paradis, Hines senior managing director. “The tower will also set a new standard for healthy and productive work environments.”
Hines and Boston Properties will develop the tower. The sale of land to the tower developers is helping to fund the transit center. Pelli Clarke Pelli, working with Hines, was awarded the tower and the transit center commission after winning an international competition in 2007.
Founded in 1977 and led by Cesar Pelli, Fred Clarke, and Rafael Pelli, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects has designed some of the world’s most recognizable buildings, including the World Financial Center in New York, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, and the International Finance Centre in Hong Kong.”
Tags: 070 feet, 1, architect, architects, building, Clarke, Fred Clarke, Janet Yoder, Pelli, Pelli Clarke Pelli, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, tallest, Transbay Transit Center, Transbay Transit Tower
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Friday, October 26th, 2012
Here it is, in the national media, in the Washington Post’s blog site, for tout le monde to see:
“San Francisco’s Spectacular Hypocrisy“
That bit from Amy Crawford has this nice quote about Proposition F (2012) from error-prone San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee:
“As insane as this is, it is, in fact, insane,” sputtered the usually mild-mannered Mayor Ed Lee when the initiative was announced.
Now, was it a mistake for San Francisco’s so-called Consensus Mayor to label Prop F (and, indirectly, the supporters of Prop F) as insane?
Yes. It’s not what he meant to say, it’s not what he actually thinks.
Now it certainly would be inconvenient for San Francisco to lose control of Hetch Hetchy, no argument there.
But IRL, it’s not “insane” to think that maybe, just maybe, it’d be a good idea to restore Hetchy Hetchy at some far off point in the future.
The Valley, the “counterpoint” to Yosemite, before San Francisco improperly grabbed it:
And I can see those waterfalls
And I can see those waterfalls
Click to become as “insane” as the half of San Francisco voters what are going to say “Yes” to Prop F (2012) come November.
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Monday, August 20th, 2012
All right, what most people consider Embarcadero Center are the taller buildings all in a row, from left to right, EC1, EC2, EC3, and EC4.
And then the Hyatt Regency Embarcadero is considered Embarcadero Center 5. (The boxy thing on top used to be a revolving restaurant, but, sadly, it don’t revolve no mo.)
And then, along came Embarcadero West (275 Battery), the black sheep of the family, as seen on the left:
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(I guess they threw in short, short 301 Battery for completeness, but it’s been there for a good long time so it doesn’t belong in here.)
Now you better know Embarcadero Center.
All the deets:
“By 1862, this area of moored ships was nicknamed the Barbary Coast and had become a raucous district of prostitution, dance halls and thievery. The Coast continued to flourish until 1911, when Mayor James Rolph initiated a clean-up. Shut down for good in the early 1920′s, the area became San Francisco’s Produce District. A forerunner of the weekend Farmer’s Market that exists near Embarcadero Center today, the area’s narrow streets were lined with vendors selling fruits and vegetables.
When urban renewal laws took hold in San Francisco in the 1950′s, city planner M. Justin Herman spearheaded a plan to redevelop the site where Embarcadero Center now stands into a mixed-use “city within a city.” David Rockefeller, John Portman, and Trammel-Crow submitted the winning proposal to develop the 8.5 acre site.
Embarcadero Center’s four office towers were built in phases, beginning in 1968 and ending in 1983. The office towers, which have a daily population of 16,000, quickly became the corporate headquarters for many major companies.
Further expansion occurred during the mid-1980′s when commercial property became available directly west of the complex. The project was expanded to include Embarcadero Center West located at 275 Battery Street.
The Embarcadero Roadway Project has led to an entire renewal of the Downtown Waterfront District that is ensuring a bright future for Embarcadero Center. The Center is just steps away from the 42,000-seat AT&T Park, home to the San Francisco Giants baseball team, which opened in April 2000. The waterfront is also the scene of the new Muni F-Line transportation system featuring historic streetcars from around the world. Future projects include a cruise ship terminal and dozens of new restaurants, condominiums, hotels, and entertainment attractions.
Embarcadero Center successfully combines a desirable office address with over 120 quality shops and restaurants. Stores range from local, independent retailers to names that are internationally recognized, while restaurants provide a diversity of cuisine and dining styles. The Embarcadero Center Cinema is a leading exhibitor of first-run art, foreign language and special interest films. The Center is also the site of frequent special events that include wine and music festivals, art exhibits, garden shows, summer Total Wellness fair and the Embarcadero Center holiday ice rink.”
Tags: +3, 1, 2, 2012, 4, 5, bay area, california, district, Embacadero, Embarcadero Center, Embarcadero West, financial, Hyatt Regency Embarcadero, model, San Francisco
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Thursday, August 16th, 2012
Wow. A supposed “leader” of the Run Ed Run Draft Ed Lee for Mayor movement, a person who was rewarded with a Supervisor position for selling out her progressive values, just got a big fat vote of NO CONFIDENCE last night, courtesy of the Democratic Party of San Francisco.
Kind of like this:
Ah, let’s meet some of the candidates for D5 Supe. So we have, from left to right, Thoughtful, Thoughtful, OMG I’M SO PISSED OFF WHAT GIVES THESE, THESE PEOPLE THE RIGHT TO QUESTION ME, Thoughtful, and Thoughtful:
Photo by Luke Thomas of Fog City Journal
Let’s check in with the reaction from another candidate, one who is accumulating endorsements the past few weeks instead of, you know, losing them:
“I just spoke w/ Julian Davis and he is THRILLED! Level playing field! RT @SFCitizen: @mattdorsey No endorsement for District 5? HARSH!”
And here’s the rest of the official Dem Party endorsements from last night’s meeting
“SAN FRANCISCO (Aug. 15, 2012) — The San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee tonight voted on the party’s endorsements for local candidates and propositions that will appear on the Nov. 6, 2012 Consolidated General Election ballot. The governing board of San Francisco’s Democratic Party voted to endorse the following:
- Board of Supervisors, District 1: Eric Mar
- Board of Supervisors, District 3: David Chiu
- Board of Supervisors, District 5: No Endorsement
- Board of Supervisors, District 7: F.X. Crowley (#1), and Norman Yee (#2)
- Board of Supervisors, District 9: David Campos
- Board of Supervisors, District 11: John Avalos
- Board of Education (four seats): Sandra Fewer, Matt Haney, Rachel Norton and Jill Wynns
- Community College Board (four seats): Natalie Berg, Chris Jackson, Rafael Mandelman, Steve Ngo
- BART Director, District 7: Lynette Sweet
- BART Director, District 9: Tom Radulovich
- Yes on Proposition A (City College Parcel Tax, District Measure)
- Yes on Proposition B (Clean and Safe Neighborhood Parks Bond, Bond Measure)
- Yes on Proposition C (Housing Trust Fund, Charter Amendment)
- Yes on Proposition D (Consolidating Odd-Year Municipal Elections, Charter Amendment)
- Yes on Proposition E (Gross Receipts Tax, Ordinance)
- No on Proposition F (Water and Environment Plan, Ordinance)
- Yes on Proposition G (Policy Opposing Corporate Personhood, Declaration of Policy)
Though comprehensive official minutes of the DCCC’s special meeting at California State Office Building’s Milton Marks Auditorium will be forthcoming, member and committee reports included several updates on: the upcoming fall campaign; the hiring of a new executive director; current party finances and fundraising plans, including an event centered on President Obama’s nomination acceptance speech; voter registration; the redesigned party website and expanded communications efforts; and amending practices to meet many standards codified in the Brown Act and S.F. Sunshine Ordinance. The DCCC also voted on a vendor for its fall slate card program.
Public comments included numerous speakers advocating individually and on their organizations’ behalf for local candidates and measures; a monthly update on Organizing for America; concerns that the California Democratic Party endorsed Proposition 35 without consideration to official opponents and concerns from the sex worker community. Two speakers called on DCCC members to address themselves to community concerns that policies governing the Castro’s Rainbow Flag do not comport with Presidential proclamations and other exigencies that merit lowering the flag to half-mast when appropriate.
The lone new business item was a resolution passed by a majority of DCCC members that condemned inflammatory and offensive anti-Muslim advertising on Muni vehicles, and called on city officials and MTA authorities to change policies to prohibit such hate speech in the future.
Members John Rizzo and Hene Kelly closed the meeting by memorializing the late Milton Marks III, a highly regarded Community College Board member and former DCCC colleague, who passed away Aug. 9 at the age of 52. The meeting was adjourned in Marks’s honor.
About the San Francisco Democratic County Central Committee
San Francisco’s Democratic County Central Committee, or DCCC, is the governing body of the local Democratic Party as defined in California’s Government Code and Elections Code. The DCCC is comprised of local Democrats elected by voters in each Assembly District, as well as partisan-level Democratic elected officials and nominees who serve as Ex-Officio Officers. Current members elected from the 17th Assembly District are: John Avalos, David Campos, David Chiu, Malia Cohen, Petra DeJesus, Matt Dorsey, Bevan Dufty, Zoe Dunning, Leslie Katz, Rafael Mandelman, Carole Migden, Leah Pimentel, Alix Rosenthal, and Scott Wiener. Members elected from the 19th Assembly District are: Kat Anderson, Kelly Dwyer, Bill Fazio, Tom Hsieh, Mary Jung, Hene Kelly, Meagan Levitan, Eric Mar, Trevor McNeil and Arlo Hale Smith. Ex Officio members are: U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, Attorney General Kamala Harris, State Senators Mark Leno and Leland Yee, and Assemblymembers Tom Ammiano and Fiona Ma.
Additional information is available online at: http://www.sfdemocrats.org/.
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Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
This isn’t for me, but maybe it’s for you.
Presenting “ZERO1 Biennial, Seeking Silicon Valley”
This’ll take place mostly in the San Hoser area, but they’ll have stuff up here in the 415 as well.
All the deets below and after the jump.
And here’s the highlight of the show:
San Francisco designer known as ISHKY is creating a spectacular public artwork called Pi in the Sky. Sending five synchronized skywriting planes on a two hour journey across the Bay Area – over a pantheon of mathematically inclined institutions: NASA Ames, Livermore Labs, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, Google, Facebook, Twitter and Apple – Pi in the Sky will fill the blue expanse with streams of numbers, 3.14159265… The planes, which will be released sometime during the opening weekend of the Biennial when the weather is optimal, will be equipped with dot-matrix skywriting technology that produces numbers nearly a quarter-mile tall.
Look to the Skies for Signs and Wonders
ZERO1 Biennial
Seeking Silicon Valley
September 12 – December 8, 2012
August 2012, San Jose, CA – ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network is pleased to announce schedule highlights for the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial, one of the world’s only Biennials to focus on the convergence of contemporary art and technology, taking place in Silicon Valley, around the Bay Area, and beyond this September 12 to December 8.
Inviting more than 150 artists from over 13 countries, the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial will present works at the forefront of media art – collaborating with local, regional, national and international cultural institutions and iconic Silicon Valley companies to showcase three months of exhibitions, events, and performances – in museums and galleries, in skywriting above San Francisco, in the streets and storefronts of Silicon Valley, on iPads and smartphones, and across the World Wide Web.
The 2012 ZERO1 Biennial theme and the core Biennial exhibition, Seeking Silicon Valley, was inspired by Silicon Valley’s globally renowned reputation as the hub of high-tech entrepreneurial innovation and networked creativity, as much as from the region’s conspicuous lack of publicly accessible features including borders, a defining architecture, a singular culture, and a cohesive sense of place. Biennial artists and the Biennial’s partnering organizations have been charged with articulating the2012 theme Seeking Silicon Valley in all of the showcased performances, exhibitions, events and panels.
For three months throughout the Bay Area the Biennial will feature installations, interactive media, sculptures, online works, videos and performances by artists who are utilizing technology to create contemporary art in original and provocative ways. The lineup of Biennial artists for 2012 include such notable art world figures as Lynn Hershman Leeson, whose new cinematic installationPresent Tense – examining the human effects of global water toxicity and including high definition videos of babies swimming under water – will debut as part of the Biennial’s main exhibition,Seeking Silicon Valley. Partnering with eBay Inc., Jer Thorp, the New York Times’ lauded Data Artist in Residence, and Columbia professor Mark Hansen have been commissioned to create a data-driven work. The public can view the piece – which ties excerpts from classic literature to eBay listings and transactions – as it is projected on the Internet giant’s North Campus entrance starting September 12, 2012 when the Biennial launches.
Like all of the artworks in this uniquely collaborative Biennial – a dynamic network of shows and events involving an established and esteemed group of cultural partners, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stanford University Institute for Creativity and the Arts,New York’s Eyebeam Art & Technology Center, Russia’s Ural Industrial Biennial, and the South Korean biennial Media City Seoul – the eBay Inc. installation was inspired by the 2012 Biennial theme Seeking Silicon Valley.
“Silicon Valley is an idea as much as a place,” says Biennial Lead Curator and ZERO1’s Director of Programs Jaime Austin. “Renowned globally as a hub of entrepreneurship and innovation, Silicon Valley is notoriously difficult to experience. More than a specific location it is a network of freeways, technologies, companies, and relationships connected in a complex physical and virtual web. Modeling this networked nature, the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial is a network of curators from different countries bringing a global perspective to the Biennial exhibition, a network of contemporary artists sharing and presenting work, as well as a network of Biennial partners presenting exhibitions, events and performances connecting Silicon Valley and beyond.”
(more…)
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Monday, June 18th, 2012
Here’s the 99% in Lane 2 – no apparent problems here:
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And here’s what’s in Lane 1 a few miles down the very same freeway - it’s YAFWR (Yet Another Ferraro Without Registration):
Do you know why the richers of California tend to go without license plates on their Ferrari and Lamborghini and whatnot? Well, it’s because of the cost.
Buying a Ferraro like this one to tool around on the weekends for a little while will run you $20-something thousand in “use tax” whether you drive it a little or a lot. So what you’ll need to do is to make some arrangement with your cheesy exoticar dealer – if you think about it for a while, you’ll figure something out.*
And the Tax Man prolly won’t catch you.
So that’s why the 99% pays the CA DMV for auto registration and the 1% Ferrari / Lambo crowd does not.
*Oh, it’s a race car, not a regular car. Oh, as soon as I bought it I took it to, let’s see here, Nevada? Yeah, Nevada. As a 1%-er, I live in the crappy, windblown, high desert of Nevada instead of gorgeous California – do you buy that? Oh, that was a repositioning trip, and, you know, I hated it. I don’t actually like the job of ferrying Ferrari about, it’s such a burden. Oh, it’s…
Tags: 1, 27, 99, board, boe, dealer, dealership, decal, dmv, equalization, ferrari, ftb, lambo, lamborghini, license, plate, registration, rocklin, sacramento, sticker, use tax, YAFWR, Yet Another Ferrari Without Registration, Yet Another Ferraro Without Registration
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Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
I saw an ad from the San Francisco Examiner on the Bay to Breakers website the other day what claimed the claim above.
Is it true? I don’t know.
Anyway, here’s the claim on the same website from a couple year’s back:
All right, I’ll have to check that BtoB site again, to make sure my eyes weren’t deceiving me regarding the San Mateo plus San Francisco claim.
But, you know, you don’t have to be #1 in everything all the time, ‘Xam.
You could just be yourself and be happy with that….
Tags: 1, 2010, 2012, b2b, bay area, bay to breakers, btob, california, chronicle, county, Examiner, newspaper, number, one, proud, San Francisco, San Mateo, sfgate, sponsor
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
This firetruck is older than you!
Still on the job after all these years…
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Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Oh wow, man. Former Presidio Landmark Apartments doorman Tony Robles tells his tale in Poor Magazine (aka Prensa Pobre).
Alls I can say is that it’s an interesting mix of fact and opinion. One of the first grafs is below and the whole thing is in the link above.
Anyway, I guess a lot more people are living there these days – here’s what’s on Yelp about this building.
And here’s the place itself, way on the right, from the deck of one of those nearby multi-floor townhomes:
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Here it is:
“The edifice I refer to is the Presidio Landmark Apartments, located in the city’s Presidio on Wedemeyer St. near 14th Ave. I was working at this insular, hermetically sealed, self-aggrandizing, pseudo palace—home to CEO’s and hedge funders—in the capacity of door attendant. My brown face was the first you’d see when walking through the French doors. There I would sit, donning a somewhat comical habiliment of tan dockers, innocuous (save for the itching) cotton candy blue shirt, bottomed off with clunky Timberland shoes. The Presidio Landmark—an ideal locale for one of those obnoxious Lexus Christmas commercials—home to some of the city’s highest rents–nearly $3000 a month for a “junior” one bedroom, $3200-3800 for a one-bedroom, upwards of $4000-5000 for a 2 bedroom, and $7000+ for a multi-floor townhome located in the periphery. The building casts an ominous presence when approached. It is situated on a grassy slope, adorned with foliage including succulents, native plants, African varieties—underneath canopy-like palm trees, impassive and pale, stripped of their natural skin. One gets the impression when approaching this fortress-like structure that something is terribly wrong. This home of the upwardly mobile, the hedge funders, gentrifiers of neighborhoods—this colonized place sits on the ancestral home of Native people. It is the structure that was once known as the Merchant Marine and Public Health Service Hospitals. It was a place that provided free care to native people, including native Hawaiians, people with leprosy, merchant marines and people who didn’t have access to decent healthcare. It is part of the 42 acre Public Health Service District. It is the place that was abandoned in the mid 80’s when it was decommissioned by the Reagan administration. It is a place whose cries can be heard, a place where ancestral spirits cry out for justice against land grabbing developers like Forest City, who, with the Presidio Trust, took the sacred Ohlone land to satisfy its voracious corporate hunger. The Presidio Landmark: home to the 1%.”
But what’s this, here’s an ad for just $2150, so maybe they’ve lowered their asking prices lately:
*Junior One Bedroom, One Bathroom available for move in 2/8/2012
*Brand New Luxury Apartment Home
*Presidio National Park address
*Beautiful finishes including hardwood floors, granite countertops and stainless steel energy efficient appliances
*Bosch full-size, in-suite washer and dryer
Presidio Landmark Features:
LEED Gold Certification
24-hour Door Attendant
Concierge Services
On-site Maintenance Team
Massage Room and Spa Services
Private Dining Room with Wine Cellar
Jacuzzi Hot Tub
Fitness Center/Yoga Room
Beautiful Interior Gardens with Fire Pit and breathtaking views
Parking available at $150/month
Live in luxury at the Presidio Landmark where there is plenty of room to stretch out and enjoy the great outdoors; you will have immediate access to the Marina, Laurel Heights and Presidio Heights. Nowhere else in San Francisco will you find an historic building that has been sustainably renovated with modern comforts and conveniences built right in. Host a private dinner party in our Dining Room or catch the MUNI to the Financial District for a night out.
And there you have it.
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012
As seen in the Western Addition:
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