SAN FRANCISCO—The First Street Tower of Oceanwide Center is located at the corner of Mission and First Streets, less than one block from the Transbay Terminal. The 2.4 million square foot mixed-use ground up development encompasses more than 1 million square feet of office space, a 171-room Waldorf Astoria hotel and 265 luxury residences between two towers. Oceanwide Center is scheduled for completion in 2021.
The signature First Street Tower will be the second tallest building in San Francisco at 910 feet after completion, and home to 109 luxury residences and approximately 1.1 million square feet of office space. The office floors' side-core design yields expansive, flexible floorplates that range in size from 32,000 to 26,000 square feet. The foundation includes drilled shafts more than 300 feet deep into bedrock.
At the base of the building is a 26,000-square-foot urban room with 68-foot-tall ceilings. In addition to providing retail space, the urban room will host farmers' markets, concerts and other events, with a water feature that converts to a stage and a second floor viewing platform.
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Lisa Brown
Lisa Brown is an editor for the south and west regions of GlobeSt.com. She has 25-plus years of real estate experience, with a regional PR role at Grubb & Ellis and a national communications position at MMI. Brown also spent 10 years as executive director at NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where she led the organization to achieving its first national award honors and recognition on Capitol Hill. She has written extensively on commercial real estate topics and edited numerous pieces on the subject.
