Oceanwide Center was a mega-project that was supposed to include the second-tallest office building in San Francisco when the ground was broken in 2016, aiming to be a new $1.6B icon of the city's skyline across the street from Salesforce Tower.

The plans called for two adjacent skyscrapers at the corner of Mission St. and First St., including a residential tower filled with luxury condos, a Waldorf-Astoria hotel and a 1.3M SF office building.

After the foundation was poured, the project halted when the pandemic started and never resumed. Now, eight years later, it remains what the San Francisco Standard calls "a money pit" that is the center of a festering legal dispute.

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