Delivering San Francisco’s Newest Waterfront Neighborhood
The challenge
How do you transform a parking lot across from a ballpark into a vibrant new mixed-use neighborhood that attracts diverse residents, employers, retailers and community organizations? And how do you do that in an already dense urban environment, in a city known for its sky-high prices?
A shared vision
After working with the Port of San Francisco for nearly 10 years, the San Francisco Giants needed a trusted partner who could take on this challenge and turn ambitious vision into reality. We saw the opportunity, not simply in the scale of the project, but in the commitment to values of environmental sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion, health and wellness, and economic advancement. In 2017 the Giants selected Tishman Speyer as their 50/50 partner to develop both the horizontal and vertical components of the project, and we went to work on San Francisco’s largest mixed-use waterfront project.
Creating a transformative and inspired neighborhood
Once fully developed, Mission Rock will be a 2.7 million gross square foot mixed-use development. Eleven individual buildings will be constructed in four phases — six office/lab and five residential, along with eight acres of parks. Mission Rock will encompass 1.4 million square feet office/lab, 200,000 square feet of retail and 1,200 apartments, 40% of which are affordable.
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Mission Rock Retail
A team of world-class architects
We knew a top-down, monolithic solution wouldn’t feel authentic. So, we are working with four different architects to create a diverse and dynamic environment that will feel like a real, organic neighborhood. Three of the four architectural teams are led by women, including Studio Gang, Work AC and MVRDV. And our landscape firm, Scape, designing China Basin Park, is also female-run.
Focus on the future
As part of our commitment to building a neighborhood of the future, we are raising the site 5 feet to meet the 2100 projection for sea level rise. We’ve also designed a district scale energy plant that will provide heating and cooling for all the buildings in the project, and a water treatment plant that will recycle wastewater generated onsite to feed 100% of the projects non-potable water needs.
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China Basin Park overlooking Oracle Park
The importance of people in making a place
As our buildings rise quickly into the waterfront skyline, we continue to work with a wide range of partners to ensure we meet or exceed our ESG goals and community commitments. We feel certain that is key to creating the transformative place, where thousands of people will live, work and enjoy themselves and where innovations of the future will take shape.
