San Francisco’s Skyline, Now Inexorably Transformed by Tech<br />“The mid-1960s and early 1970s in San Francisco simultaneously saw a downtown building boom<br />and by far the nation’s strongest anti-skyscraper movement,” said Ms. Isenberg, author of “Designing San Francisco: Art, Land and Urban Renewal in the City by the Bay.” “They went hand in hand.”<br />At the center of the conflict was the Transamerica Pyramid, whose plans were unveiled in 1969.<br />Tech workers are attracted to the great opportunities in the city, and the supply of workers means more tech companies come here.”<br />The website for Salesforce Tower makes a point of noting the other tech companies nearby — Yelp, Amazon, eBay, Intuit.<br />Salesforce, a company that did not exist 20 years ago, will take up residence on Jan. 8 in the new<br />Salesforce Tower, which at 1,070 feet is the tallest office building west of the Mississippi.<br />Salesforce Tower, which at 1,070 feet is the tallest office building west of the<br />Mississippi, will be inhabited in January, signaling tech’s triumph in the city.<br />It would be more than half again as tall — 18 stories —<br />and would be, they promised, “the finest building ever erected for a newspaper office.” It had a 60-foot terra cotta Baroque dome, four corner cupolas and spectacular flourishes.<br />Salesforce Tower is breaking a San Francisco height record that stood for nearly half a century.
