505 Montgomery Street

505 Montgomery Street
505 Montgomery Street from Portsmouth Square
Location within central San Francisco
General information
Type	Commercial offices
Location	505 Montgomery Street San Francisco, California
Coordinates	37°47′38″N 122°24′12″W / 37.7939°N 122.4033°W / 37.7939; -122.4033Coordinates: 37°47′38″N 122°24′12″W / 37.7939°N 122.4033°W / 37.7939; -122.4033
Completed	1988
Owner	RREEF
Height
Roof	100 m (330 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	24
Floor area	333,000 sq ft (30,900 m²)
Design and construction
Architect	Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
Main contractor	Dinwiddie Construction
References
^[1]^[2]

505 Montgomery Street is a 24-storey, 100 m (330 ft) class-A office building in the financial district of San Francisco, California. The 98-foot (30 m) spire^[3] perched atop the building is thought to be a replica of the Empire State Building, but that association is mainly due to the publicity stunt during the opening of the building, which involved an inflatable 40-foot (12 m) gorilla perched on the spire.^[3]^[4]

History

505 Montgomery was developed by the Empire Group of San Francisco. Empire assembled ten contiguous parcels in 1978,^[5] and filed their initial design study on 7 January 1983 with the San Francisco Department of City Planning.^[6] The initial design called for a 28-story building, 416 feet (127 m) high including a 16-foot (4.9 m) mechanical penthouse and ground-floor commercial space. The design was revised to a 24-story building based on floor area ratio calculations, and the final conditional use authorization was granted in June 1984.^[5] During construction, Mitsui Fudosan acquired a controlling interest in the unfinished building from The Empire Group and development was completed under the management of AMB.^[3]^[7]

Retrofitting projects, including a 1994 lighting retrofit, earned the building a Energy Star label.^[8] National Office Partners (NOP), a partnership between Hines Interests LP and CalPERS, acquired 505 Montgomery from Mitsui Fudosan and The Empire Group in 1999.^[9] The building was subsequently sold by NOP to RREEF in 2005.^[10]

Design

505 Montgomery was designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in homage to the Art Deco skyscrapers of the 1930s. It features a stepped-back trapezoidal (mansard) roof and the exterior is clad in polished Barre Gray granite.^[8]

Grabhorn Park

Grabhorn Park (now Empire Park) is located in the 600 block of Commercial Street, and was provided by the developers of 505 Montgomery as a privately-owned public open space.^[5]^[11] The initial building design included a pedestrian arcade at the site of 505 Montgomery connecting Sacramento and Commercial streets. However, the arcade would have been rather small, expensive, shaded, and the commercial atmosphere was thought to be unwelcoming for the neighboring community of Chinatown. Therefore, the public open space was moved to a nearby property in 1988, which also freed up additional leasable floor space in 505 Montgomery.^[5]

References

↑ 505 Montgomery Street at Emporis
↑ 505 Montgomery Street at SkyscraperPage
1 2 3 "1988 — 505 Montgomery Street". Prologis 30th Anniversary. 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
↑ Baker, Katie (22 October 2010). "Ask The Appeal: Why Does 505 Montgomery Have A Mini Empire State Building On Top?". The San Francisco Appeal. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
1 2 3 4 Loukaitou-Sideris, Anastasia; Banerjee, Tridib (1998). Urban Design Downtown: Poetics and Politics of Form. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. pp. 115–118. ISBN 0-520-20930-3. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
↑ Brown, Martin E. (7 January 1983). Initial Study: 505 Montgomery St. Office Building (82.463E) (Report). The Empire Group. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
↑ Robson, Douglas (17 January 1999). "Tower selling for $95M". San Francisco Business Journal. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
1 2 "ENERGY STAR Labeled Building Profile, 505 Montgomery". EnergyStar.gov. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
↑ "National Office Partners Acquires 505 Montgomery in Downtown San Francisco" (Press release). Hines. 28 January 1999. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
↑ "National Office Partners Limited Partnership Sells 12 Assets" (Press release). Hines Interests Limited Partnership. 2 February 2005. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
↑ "Empire Park". Art and Architecture SF. 11 March 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2016.

Tallest buildings in San Francisco

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Highrises over 400 feet (120 m)	333 Bush Street Hilton San Francisco Union Square Tower I Pacific Gas & Electric Building 50 California Street St. Regis Museum Tower 100 Pine Center 45 Fremont Street 333 Market Street 650 California Street 555 Mission Street The Infinity II 100 First Plaza One California San Francisco Marriott Marquis Russ Building 140 New Montgomery JPMorgan Chase Building The Paramount Providian Financial Building Three Embarcadero Center Two Embarcadero Center 595 Market Street 123 Mission Street 101 Montgomery Embarcadero West 100 Van Ness Avenue

Highrises over 300 feet (91 m)	One Maritime Plaza Four Seasons Hotel Westin St. Francis 456 Montgomery Plaza 535 Mission Street Shell Building Park Central Hotel San Francisco 199 Fremont Street Hilton San Francisco Financial District One Market Plaza Steuart Tower 425 California Street 100 Montgomery Street Grand Hyatt San Francisco Fox Plaza 101 Second Street NEMA 580 California Street 601 California Street The Infinity I Hilton San Francisco Union Square Tower II 450 Sutter Street InterContinental San Francisco Stevenson Place 150 California Street 225 Bush Street 505 Montgomery Street Blue Shield of California Building Fairmont San Francisco 180 Montgomery Street KPMG Building Central Plaza Sir Francis Drake Hotel The Summit W San Francisco 353 Sacramento Street 555 Market Street Bank of California Building Phillip Burton Federal Building Ritz-Carlton Club and Residences San Francisco Marriott Union Square 88 Kearny Street 388 Market Street Commercial Union Assurance Building Hunter-Dulin Building One Bush Plaza San Francisco City Hall McAllister Tower Apartments Mark Hopkins Hotel Mills Tower Central Tower

Under construction	Salesforce Tower 181 Fremont Street 350 Mission Street 340 Fremont Street 399 Fremont Street Jasper LUMINA I & II 41 Tehama Street 222 Second Street

Planned and proposed	Oceanwide Center I & II Palace Hotel Residential Tower Park Tower at Transbay 706 Mission Street Treasure Island development 524 Howard Street

See also: San Francisco Designated Landmarks, Buildings and structures in San Francisco

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