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
Office
Parking
Restaurant
Retail
Keywords
Facade recladding
Green building
High floor-to-floor heights
High-density tenants
Large floor plates
REIT
Renovation
Resilient design
Roof deck
Seismic retrofit
Sustainable development
Tech-oriented tenants
Site Size
1.54
acres
acres
hectares
Date Started
2007
Date Opened
2014
Originally built in 1964, 680 Folsom Street is 14-story office building with 468,783 square feet of rentable space that has been completely renovated and seismically retrofitted, and was reopened in January 2014. The building is the principal structure in a three-building complex that includes an adjacent three-story office building and a two-story retail/office building, both also renovated as part of the overall project acquisition and development plan. Renovation of 680 Folsom involved removal and replacement of nearly everything in the building except the steel frame. Also, two floors were added, as were four horizontal additions. The building complex was sold during construction to Boston Properties, a major real estate investment trust (REIT).
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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
Office
Parking
Restaurant
Retail
Keywords
Facade recladding
Green building
High floor-to-floor heights
High-density tenants
Large floor plates
REIT
Renovation
Resilient design
Roof deck
Seismic retrofit
Sustainable development
Tech-oriented tenants
Site Size
1.54
acres
acres
hectares
Date Started
2007
Date Opened
2014
Websites
www.bostonproperties.com/properties/san-francisco-area
Owner/developer
Boston Properties
Four Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA 94111
www.bostonproperties.com
Developer
TMG Partners
100 Bush Street, 26th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
www.tmgpartners.com
Development financial partner
Rockwood Capital
Two Embarcadero Center, Suite 2360
San Francisco, CA 94111
www.rockwoodcap.com
Architect
SOM
One Front Street, Suite 2400
San Francisco, CA 94111
www.som.com
Structural engineer
Tipping Mar
(now Tipping Structural Engineers)
www.tippingmar.com
CONSULTANTS AND
CONTRACTORS
General contractor
Plant Construction Company L.P.
www.plantconstruction
company.com
Leasing broker
Jones Lang LaSalle
www.us.jll.com
OTHER RESOURCES
Interviewees
Michael Covarrubias,
Chief executive officer,
TMG Partners
Matt Field,
managing director,
TMG Partners
Sean Donnelly,
director of construction
management,
TMG Partners
Robert Gray,
partner,
Rockwood Capital
Jason Oberman,
director,
Rockwood Capital
Robert Pester,
senior vice president and
regional manager,
Boston Properties
Aaron Fenton,
development manager,
Boston Properties
Craig Hartman,
design partner,
SOM
Steven Tipping,
founding principal,
Tipping Mar
Chris Roeder
leasing broker,
Jones Lang LaSalle
Anthony Natsis,
partner,
Allen Matkins