Pier 1

Format
Full Case Study

City
San Francisco

State/Province
CA

Country
USA

Metro Area
San Francisco

Project Type
Office: Commercial

Location Type
Central Business District

Land Uses
Office

Keywords
Adaptive use
Harborfront
Historic preservation
Public-private partnership
Redevelopment
REIT/public company developer
Renovation
Urban regeneration
Urban waterfront development

Site Size
3.1 acres
acres hectares

Date Started
1998

Date Opened
1999

Working with many regulatory and review agencies, Pier 1’s developer, a real estate investment trust (REIT) that specializes in industrial properties, converted a pier warehouse into a seismically safe and technologically modern office complex and added more than one acre (0.4 hectare) of public space to San Francisco’s waterfront. In the aftermath of the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, an elevated freeway that had cut off the city from 3,800 feet (1,158 meters) of its waterfront was demolished, prompting the city to launch a waterfront land use plan that aimed to extend downtown directly to the water’s edge. Pier 1 is the first redevelopment project initiated under this ambitious plan. It preserves a historic waterfront landmark for maritime-related use, and symbolizes the transformation of San Francisco’s old economy in favor of the new.

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Case Study/Profile Type: DCS
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World Region: North America
Developer(s): AMB Corporation
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Designer(s): SMWM (Simon Martin Winkelstein Moris)
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