SAN FRANCISCO—The planned rooftop park atop the new Transbay Center, designed by PWP Landscape Architecture, will feature 13 different gardens, a spacious lawn with trees, movable chairs and tables, an 800-seat amphitheater for concerts and performances, a half-mile jogging track and a restaurant. Park programming being considered includes yoga, exercise classes, farmers markets, nighttime movies, ping pong, chess, reading rooms, art shows, children's programming and concerts.
Dan Biederman, who transformed New York City's Bryant Park, and his consulting firm Biederman Redevelopment Ventures, which specializes in developing and operating public spaces, will manage and operate the park. Biederman Redevelopment is part of a management team led by commercial real estate developer Lincoln Property Company, hired by the Transbay Joint Powers Authority.
“There is nothing like this in San Francisco,” Ashley Langworthy, director of the Biederman San Francisco office, tells GlobeSt.com. “Union Square, the Ferry Building and Yerba Buena Gardens are the only other similar projects but the center of gravity is shifting. This will be more like a botanical garden with abundant trees and flowers.”
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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.
