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$90M Berry Street Building Addition Under Way

SAN FRANCISCO-The 175,000-sf two-story addition to the China Basin Landing building will result in the entire structure having the earthquake resistance of a datacenter.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on November 20, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO-McCarthy Cook & Co. and Rreef Funds are embarking on a 175,000-sf two-story addition to the 233,000-sf, 825-foot-long Berry Street Building in its China Basin Landing property. The property sits across from AT&T Park at the gateway to the master-planned Mission Bay development. The addition will create a pair of two-acre floor plates–the largest floor plates available in the city–and make the entire structure more resistant to earthquakes than most other buildings. The developer expects to deliver the expansion in shell condition by mid-year 2007.

McCarthy Cook co-president Ed Cook tells GlobeSt.com that when it bought the two-building, 750,000-sf China Basin Landing development in 1997, it found that the Berry Building was built with a 10-inch reinforced concrete slab as its roof. Eventually, they discovered that the building was designed to support a parking structure on its roof, which meant it had the vertical loading capacity for an addition. Modern code, however, requires a building have not only the vertical loading capacity but also the ability to take a horizontal load–the kind created by earthquakes.

The $90-million expansion will utilize a new structural isolation system that will result in the entire structure having the earthquake resistance of a mission critical facility such as a datacenter. Moreover, it will be expanded without having to relocate any of the tenants in the Berry Building, which is essentially 100% leased to a mix of office, research and medical clinical space users, including UCSF, which keeps its radiology department and related clinical labs in the building.

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