100 Pine Center

100 Pine Center
Alternative names 100 Pine Street
Continental Insurance Building
General information
Type Commercial offices
Location 100 Pine Street
San Francisco, California
Coordinates 37°47′33″N 122°23′56″W / 37.7926°N 122.3989°W / 37.7926; -122.3989Coordinates: 37°47′33″N 122°23′56″W / 37.7926°N 122.3989°W / 37.7926; -122.3989
Completed 1972
Height
Roof 145.09 m (476.0 ft)
Technical details
Floor count 33
Floor area 402,500 sq ft (37,390 m2)
Design and construction
Architect Hertzka and Knowles
References
[1][2][3][4]

100 Pine Center is a class-A office building at the northwest corner of Pine Street and Front Street in San Francisco's Financial District.[5] The building is 145 m (476 ft) with 33 floors, and 402,500 sq ft (37,000 m2) of rentable office space, a 150-car garage including 30 valet parking spaces.[5][6]

Completed in 1972 as headquarters of the Continental Insurance Company, the building is among the earlier of San Francisco's modern skyscrapers. By the start of the dot-com bubble the property, then owned by Grosvenor Properties,[7] was outdated and suffered from deferred capital maintenance.[6] In 1997 it was purchased by Walton Capital,[7] which invested heavily in upgrades, re-measured the building at 36,000 square feet (3,300 m2) larger than before, then aggressively re-leased space at higher rates.[6] After two failed transactions, Walton Capital sold the building to investors led by Unico Properties in May, 2000 for US$156 million.[6][8][9] Unico re-sold the property to the Alaska Permanent Fund based on a US$149 million price in August, 2005, but retained a minority ownership share.[10]

Tenants

The tower houses many daytime office workers. Major tenants include the New York Life Insurance Company. As of 2007 it is tied with 45 Fremont Center as the twenty-third tallest building in San Francisco. It was certified as being operated and maintained as a green building under the US Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED EB 2.0) standards in July 2008.[11]

The Consulate-General of Ireland is in the building.[12]

See also

References

  1. 100 Pine Center at CTBUH Skyscraper Database
  2. 100 Pine Center at Emporis
  3. 100 Pine Center at SkyscraperPage
  4. 100 Pine Center at Structurae
  5. 1 2 "100 Pine". Unico. Archived from the original on October 20, 2007. Retrieved December 1, 2007.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "100 Pine Street". Walton St. Capital. Archived from the original on January 13, 2008. Retrieved December 1, 2007.
  7. 1 2 Adam Feuerstein (July 11, 1997). "100 Pine falls to Chicago real estate kingpin". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved December 1, 2007.
  8. "Unico Acquires 100 Pine Street in San Francisco". Business Wire. November 27, 2000. Retrieved December 1, 2007.
  9. Douglas Robson (March 3, 2000). "Cornerstone pulls plug on deal for 100 Pine St.". San Francisco Business Times. Retrieved December 1, 2007.
  10. Brooke Filkins (August 19, 2007). "Vanden Heuvel Fund Acquires 100 Pine for Nearly $150 Million". LaSalle Investment Management. Archived from the original on September 5, 2008. Retrieved December 1, 2007.
  11. "US Green Building Council LEED Project List".
  12. "Consulate-General of Ireland in San Francisco". Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. 2010. Retrieved November 23, 2010..
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