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Many of San Francisco's tallest buildings, particularly its office skyscrapers, [9] were completed in a building boom from the late 1960s until the late 1980s. [10] During the 1960s, at least 40 new skyscrapers were built, [ 11 ] and the Hartford Building (1965), 44 Montgomery (1967), Bank of America Center (1969), and Transamerica Pyramid ...
As of 2024, Salesforce Tower is the tallest building in San Francisco and the second-tallest building both in California and west of the Mississippi River after the 1,100-foot (335 m) Wilshire Grand Center in Los Angeles. [11] [12] Salesforce Tower is obelisk-shaped, with a grid of metal fins running from the base of the building to the roof.
San Francisco: 1 124th-tallest building in the world, 17th-tallest building in the United States, 2nd-tallest building on the West Coast, Tallest building in San Francisco since 2018, Tallest building constructed in San Francisco in the 2010s. 3 U.S. Bank Tower: 1,018 (310) 73 1989 Los Angeles 2
The Transamerica Pyramid was the tallest skyscraper in San Francisco from 1972 to 2017, when it was surpassed by the under-construction Salesforce Tower. [16] It is one of 39 San Francisco high rises reported by the U.S. Geological Survey as potentially vulnerable to a large earthquake, due to a flawed welding technique. [17]
Currently, New York City has 17 supertall buildings, and 2 more under construction. In 2018, two more US cities gained their first supertall buildings: the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, and the Comcast Technology Center in Philadelphia.
[15] [16] A groundbreaking ceremony for the buildings was held on December 8, 2016. [17] [18] Construction on the shorter of the two towers was suspended in 2019 due to economic conditions. [19] Subsequently, the construction on the second, taller tower was also halted in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [19]
Downtown San Francisco, showing Millennium Tower (301 Mission St) center, behind it left the Salesforce Tower (under construction), far left top the 181 Fremont Street Tower (under construction), and foreground the cranes for the Park Tower (under construction) in front of the bare structure of the Transbay Terminal (under construction).
The project was approved by the San Francisco Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors in 2013, [5] [7] [8] and construction started in February 2016. [9] [10] [11]Pre-sales for the 146 condos began in May 2019, ranging from $2.3 million per unit up to $49 million for the top-floor penthouse, [12] making the latter the highest-priced penthouse in San Francisco.