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One Front Street, formerly known as Shaklee Terraces, is an office skyscraper in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The 164 m (538 ft), 38-floor tower was completed in 1979, at which point the official address was 444 Market Street. The address was later changed as the number 4 is seen as causing bad luck in many Asian ...
It was moved to Hyde Street Pier for display and preservation in 1963, and moved again in 1990. The Tubbs Cordage Company Office is of local historical significance in the category of industry due to its association with the Tubbs Cordage Company and its rope factory founded in San Francisco by Alfred L. Tubbs and his brother Hiram where the ...
Promotional postcard for duckhunting in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1915. caption reads: "Hundreds of thousands of wild duck haunt the marshy shoreline of some parts of San Francisco Bay, affording the finest sport during the season."
One Maritime Plaza is an office tower located in San Francisco's Financial District near the Embarcadero Center towers on Clay and Front Streets. The building, built as the Alcoa Building for Alcoa Corporation and completed in 1967, [3] stands 121 m (398 feet) and has 25 floors of office space. The surrounding plaza was finished in 1967.
However, Union Pacific Railroad was still the owner of One Market Street until the building was sold for US$50,000,000 (equivalent to $93,466,721 in 2023) to The Martin Group (TMG) in 1998. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] TMG invested another $50 million to renovate the property, [ 8 ] including a seismic retrofit, completing work in 1999. [ 10 ]
A 2021 map shows the impact of a tsunami hitting the San Fransisco area - and the devastation it could cause. The map was thrust back into the spotlight Thursday when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake ...
It was the fifth tallest building in San Francisco when it was completed but is no longer in the top 30. [6] One California was one of three buildings, the other two being 555 California Street and McKesson Plaza , that was featured in a 1970 Newsweek article widely thought to have coined the term " Manhattanization ".
One Market Plaza is a complex of three office buildings at 1 Market Street along the San Francisco Embarcadero.The historic 11-story Southern Pacific Building, also known as "The Landmark", was completed in 1916, and incorporated into the development in 1976 that includes the 43-storey 172 metres (564 feet) Spear Tower, and the 27-storey, 111 metres (364 feet) Steuart Tower.