The firm’s original plans called for a 1,200-foot tower as the main structure and a three-block-long Transbay Center. September 20, 2007: Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects picked as winner of the design and development competition. San Francisco, AC Transit, and the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board enter into an agreement to create the Transbay Joint Powers Authority, which will oversee the project, with a five-person board of directors.Īugust 2005: Project receives $55 million in federal funding from the federal surface transportation bill, SAFETEA-LU (Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users).

November 2, 1999: Voters approve funds for a new Transbay Transit Center.Īpril 4, 2001: Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) is created. October 17, 1989: The Loma Prieta earthquake damages the circa-1939 terminal. It was first used as a train station and handled as many as 35 million people annually, with a 10-car train arriving every 63.5 seconds.ġ959: Following the automobile-only conversion of the lower deck of the Bay Bridge one year earlier, the center was converted into a bus-only depot. Pflueger (who also conceived the Castro Theatre and 140 New Montgomery), opens in downtown San Francisco. January 14, 1939: The original Transbay Transit Center, designed by Timothy L.

This abridged timeline of the Transbay Transit Center and Salesforce Park, from 1939 up until today, will give you everything you need to know about San Francisco’s transit structure.

Highlights include lush lawns perfect for picnicking and frolicking, single-person benches for reading or taping away on a laptop, over 200 species of plants and trees to discover, and a 1,000-foot-long fountain triggered by the moving buses below. The sprawling 5.4-acre transit center and rooftop park, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects, takes up nearly three blocks between Beale and Second Streets in the East Cut neighborhood. Salesforce Park, located atop the Transbay Transit Center, is one such place. As San Francisco-and the rest of the globe-remains under shelter-in-place orders, choice outdoor spots with enough buffer space between people, as recommended by the Center for Disease Control, are more important than ever before.

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