| 535 Mission Street | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Commercial offices |
| Architectural style | Modernism |
| Location | 535 Mission Street San Francisco,California |
| Coordinates | 37°47′20″N122°23′54″W / 37.788866°N 122.39821°W /37.788866; -122.39821 |
| Construction started | 2008 (2008) |
| Completed | 2014 |
| Cost | US$215 million |
| Height | |
| Roof | 378 ft (115 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 27 |
| Floor area | 307,000 sq ft (29,000 m2) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect | HOK |
| Developer | Boston Properties, Inc. |
| Main contractor | Swinerton |
| References | |
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535 Mission Street is an officeskyscraper in theSouth of Market district ofSan Francisco,California, that opened in November 2014, with 27 stories rising 378 ft (115 m) above street level.[3][4] It is adjacent to theTransbay Transit Center site and located on the same block as100 First Plaza,555 Mission Street, and101 Second Street.
In 1984, a partnership called Bredero-Northern filed an application for a 300 foot (91 m) tall, 23-story office building.[5] The Environmental Impact Report was certified in 1986, but the project was subsequently withdrawn by the developers and never built. In 1999, a new sponsor called DWI Development, Inc. proposed a 22-story, approximately 294 foot (90 m) tall building, which was approved in April 2000. Following thedot-com crash,Hines Interests Limited Partnership took over the project and in 2002 demolished the existing structures and built a temporary parking lot until the economy recovered.[5]
With the office market slow to recover, the site was sold in 2003 to Monahan Pacific for $19.2 million, with plans to switch the development to condominiums. In 2005, the site was approved for a 35-story, 360 foot (110 m) tall building containing up to 273 housing units.[5] However, by 2006, citing an "overheated" residential real estate market, Monahan Pacific sold the development site toBeacon Capital Partners for $30 million, who changed the plans back to offices.[6]
Beacon broke ground on 535 Mission during the summer of 2008, driving piles and laying the building's foundation. In October 2008, during the2008 financial crisis, construction on the building was halted.[7] After lying dormant for four years, the site was sold along with already purchased construction materials toBoston Properties for $71 million.[3] Boston Properties restarted construction in 2013. Topping-out ceremonies were held on January 8, 2014[8] and the building opened in November 2014.[4] The building was planned to attainLEED Gold status upon completion.[3]
The building was designed byHOK, the American architecture firm.[9] The 535 Mission Project in San Francisco features a 4 sided SSG Facade installed byArchitectural Glass and Aluminum.[10]San Francisco Chronicle architecture critic John King stated that 535 Mission Street "isn’t a masterpiece", but praised its architectural restraint, with an "unusual but understated form [that] is emphasized by the sleek glass skin, where sometimes, especially near dusk or dawn, each side reads as a single blue or silver pane."[4]
As of 2014, one third of the building's space was occupied byTrulia, a real estate website company.[4] In February 2023, however, Trulia announced that it had reduced its footprint in the building from six floors to two.[11] In December 2014, the coworking space companyWeWork announced that it would lease 91,000 square feet in the tower.[12] As of May 2025, WeWork's website states that its working space occupies seven of the building's 27 floors.[13]
In the dot-com era, it was approved for an office building that was never built. Monahan Pacific then grabbed the property and was ready to build a condo tower there, but backed off... Beacon Capital Partners then stepped in and re-entitled it for an office building.
