The Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 974-0634
The Embarcadero
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 974-0634
The Port of San Francisco is a semi-independent organization run by a five-member commission, appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Board of Supervisors. The Port is responsible for managing the larger waterfront area that extends from the anchorage of the Golden Gate Bridge, along the Marina district, all the way around the north and east shores of the city of San Francisco including Fisherman's Wharf and the Embarcadero, and southward to the city line just beyond Candlestick Point. In 1968, the State of California via the California State Lands Commission for the State operated San Francisco Port Authority (est. 1957) transferred its responsibilities for the Harbor of San Francisco waterfront to the City and County of San Francisco / San Francisco Harbor Commission through the Burton Act AB2649. All eligible State port authority employees had the option to become employees of the City and County of San Francisco to maintain consistent operation of the Port of San Francisco.The Port of San Francisco lies on the western edge of the San Francisco Bay near the Golden Gate. It has been called one of the three great natural harbors in the world, but it took two long centuries for navigators from Spain and England to find the anchorage originally called Yerba Buena. A port, as was said in its early days, in which all the fleets of the world could find anchorage.
The Transamerica Pyramid is the tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline. The building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, which moved its U.S. headquarters to Baltimore, Maryland, but it is still associated with the company and is depicted in the company's logo. Designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, at 853ft, on completion in 1972 it was the eighth tallest building in the world.HistoryThe Transamerica building was commissioned by Transamerica CEO John (Jack) R. Beckett, with the claim that he wished to allow light in the street below. Built on the site of the historic Montgomery Block, it has a structural height of 853ft and has 48 floors of retail and office space.Construction began in 1969 and finished in 1972, and was overseen by San Francisco-based contractor Dinwiddie Construction (now Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company). Transamerica moved its headquarters to the new building from across the street, where it had been based in a flatiron-shaped building now occupied by the Church of Scientology of San Francisco.
Since 1987, San Francisco’s business and community leaders have gathered at The City Club to make valuable connections, entertain clients and colleagues, socialize with friends and family or simply relax with a cup of coffee and the morning paper. The advantages of membership are numerous and highly rewarding. As the city’s premier business and social club, we are known for our inspired Art Deco surroundings, impeccable service and outstanding cuisine. The City Club offers members an active calendar of networking and social opportunities, preferred pricing on food and beverages, discounted membership at Equinox Fitness and reciprocal privileges at The several other exclusive private clubs. We are also delighted to welcome couples who wish to celebrate their nuptials at The City Club. Our event planning services ensure that every detail is absolutely perfect.
Welcome to the San Francisco Italian Athletic Club (SFIAC), San Francisco's premier Italian fraternal organization located in the heart of San Francisco's Little Italy, North Beach. The SFIAC traces its roots back to 1917 and since 1936, has been located at its present location at 1630 Stockton St. The SFIAC is the heartbeat of the Italian community in San Francisco and has catered weddings, parties, and cultural- and community-based events to Italians (and non Italians) for generations. Each year, the SFIAC hosts one of America’s oldest foot races (the Statuto Race), a Columbus Day celebration, an Italian Festival, a bocce tournament and picnic, regional dinners and spectacular member-only events. Membership Membership in the SFIAC is open to males aged 18 years or older who are either Italian born or of Italian descent. For information about membership, please contact the Membership Chairman at [email protected] or to download an application, please click here The San Francisco Italian Athletic Club Facilities & Amenities: One of the many benefits of membership in the SFIAC is the availability of our facilities for dinners, dances, parties, and other events. With our versatility and exceptional location, the SFIAC can accommodate occasions ranging from intimate receptions and private parties to large scale events.Our first-floor Grand Ballroom seats up to 300. The room has 2,800 square feet of hardwood flooring, making it versatile for dining and dancing. The high ceilings create a more spacious ambiance. Amenities include conveniently accessible restrooms, a coat room, state-of-the-art sound, a high-definition projector and a 9 foot by 16 foot screen, a sectional large stage, a dance floor, and bar area. The Grand Ballroom’s measurements are 58.5 feet by 47 feet (2,866.5 square feet). Guests are greeted by a welcoming foyer, a convenient coat check room with a coat check system. The room is also equipped with a 50-foot granite bar with the capacity to serve large groups efficiently. The Park View Room on the third floor, overlooking Washington Square, may can seat 40 or accommodate 75 standing. Amenities include an ample balcony overlooking Washington Square Park and Saint Peter and Paul church—a unique panorama that only our facility can offer. There is a wet bar, fireplace, high-definition television, projection video with large screen, and private restrooms. We also provide complimentary high-speed wireless internet for your connectivity needs. If additional space is needed, we have a gymnasium that can be utilized as a showroom, auction area or additional seating. There is an eight-person elevator that accesses the third floor, and our entire facility is ADA compliant. Our exceptional staff and executive chef will work with you to host your special event from menu planning to beverage options, with fully equipped facilities and an immaculately-maintained, licensed banquet kitchen. Discounted validated parking with valet service is available upon request. Room Capacities Grand Ballroom: 300 seated / 350 standing Park View Room: 40 seated / 75 standing Location We’re located at 1630 Stockton Street, between Union and Filbert streets, just minutes from the Financial District, Union Square, the Embarcadero, or Fisherman’s Wharf. Our historic North Beach landmark building and its two distinctive event venues are in the heart of San Francisco, overlooking famous Washington Square, and is within walking distance to all that Little Italy has to offer, including Coit Tower, North Beach restaurants and bars, artisan bakeries, celebrated cafés, boutique shopping, historic landmarks, important independent bookstores, and legendary music halls. North Beach, Telegraph Hill, and Little Italy: This is San Francisco. For additional information or to check availability, please contact the SFIAC at 415 781 0166 or by email at [email protected]. Language Classes: The SFIAC offers a full range of reasonably priced Italian classes and was recently named the Best Place to Learn a Romance Language by the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Enjoy a glass of wine while learning la bella lingua! For information on class schedules and descriptions or for signing up for classes, please contact the office administrator at 415 781 0166 or click Purchase Online from the main menu. Hours: The SFIAC is open to members from 1:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Mondays, from 3:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. Tuesdays, from 1:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 3:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m. Fridays, from 11:00 a.m-8:00 p.m. Saturdays and from 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. on Sundays. Contact information If you would like to reach the office for ticket purchases or general information, please call 415 781 0166 or email: [email protected]. The fax number is 415 781 0167. The office is open Monday-Friday, 9:00 -5:30pm
Portsmouth Square is a one-block park in Chinatown, San Francisco, California, that is bounded by Kearny Street on the east, Washington Street on the north, Clay Street on the south, and Walter Lum Place on the west.
555 California Street, formerly Bank of America Center, is a 52-story 778ft skyscraper in San Francisco, California. It is the second tallest building in the city, the largest by floor area, and a focal point of the Financial District. It is the joint 67th tallest building in the United States equal in height to One Worldwide Plaza in New York City and just 2 feet shorter than the 66th tallest building in the USA, which is also owned by Bank of America, the Bank of America Center in Houston, Texas at 780 ft (238 m), and just 3 feet shorter that the 65th tallest building in the USA, 30 Hudson Street in Jersey City, New Jersey at 781 ft (238 m). Some sites round the heights of all four buildings to 780 ft (238 m) making those four buildings tied as the 66th tallest buildings in the country.Completed in 1969, the tower was the tallest building on the West Coast ((film)|The Towering InfernoJersey City, New Jersey]], in which the outside plaza substituted for that of the film's fictional skyscraper, the infamous Glass Tower which on the night of its dedication, catches fire. Many scenes were also filmed in the interior ground-floor lobby. The granite stairs coming up from California Street to the A.P. Giannini plaza were used for several key specific scenes including the opening dedication ceremony, the arrival of fire trucks and the final scene on the steps with the characters played by Paul Newman, Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway. The rooftop setting of the building used in Dirty Harry was also used a decade later in the Chuck Norris film An Eye for an Eye (1981).
One Market Plaza is a complex of three office buildings at 1 Market Street along the San Francisco Embarcadero. The historic 11-story Southern Pacific Building, also known as "The Landmark", was completed in 1916, and incorporated into the development in 1976 that includes the 43-storey 172m Spear Tower, and the 27-storey, 111m Steuart Tower. The complex was renovated in 1996 by the architect firm César Pelli & Associates Architects. In Spring 2014 a new renovation began, which is still ongoing.After Southern Pacific's merger with Union Pacific, the Landmark building was sold to The Martin Group in 1997 for $50 million, after plans by another developer to convert the building to a hotel fell through. An $88 million renovation brought modern amenities such as air conditioning and hot water to the building. It later hosted the headquarters of Del Monte Foods for ten years on the building's top three floors.
580 California Street is a high rise office building completed in 1987 in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The postmodern, 107m, 23 story tower is bordered by Kearny Street and California Street, and is topped with three, twelve foot tall statues described as "The Corporate Goddesses" by Muriel Castanis on the twenty-third floor.Tenants Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP Blurb, Inc. CEB Consulate General of Canada Huron Consulting Group Northern Trust Corporation State Farm Insurance Wetherby Asset Management Oppenheimer & Co. Inc Troutman Sanders LLP Recommind
Founded in 1969 by a group of young activists, CAA has a proud history of achieving social change. For over forty years CAA has challenged the status quo to advance equality, create coalitions that bridge traditional boundaries, and meet the needs of our community’s most marginalized. Our civil rights leadership encompasses four decades of achievement. 1969 Community activists and students establish Chinese for Affirmative Action to advocate on behalf of Chinese Americans who are systematically denied equal opportunities in many sectors of society. 1970 CAA assists in preparing the landmark US Supreme Court case Lau v. Nichols, which results in bilingual education provisions for growing numbers of Chinese- and Spanish-speaking public school students in San Francisco. 1972 CAA demands bilingual election ballots in San Francisco to comply with new state election code mandating bilingual assistance where a significant need is identified. 1973 CAA joins Officers for Justice and other minority and women groups to challenge discriminatory hiring and promotional practices of the San Francisco Police Department. The lawsuit leads to a dramatic increase in APA police officers. 1975 CAA files a complaint against the largest HMO in Northern California for failing to provide equal access and services to Chinese-speaking patients. The settlement reached through the federal government becomes a model for other bilingual health access programs. 1978 CAA mounts a national campaign to oppose clustering all Asian and Pacific Americans in one racial category in the 1980 Census questionnaire. The Census ultimately lists nine distinct APA groups. 1983 CAA joins a nationwide coalition to protest the brutal murder of Vincent Chin and initiates a campaign with the US Department of Justice urging prosecution of the two men involved in the killing. The case is appealed and retried. 1986 The first of a series of Broken Ladder reports, analyzing the lack of APA representation in management and promotional opportunities in San Francisco civil service, is published. CAA intervenes in the lawsuit against the San Francisco Fire Department to address the under-representation of APAs in the department. 1989 CAA joins nation-wide efforts to stop the regressive Kennedy-Simpson immigration bill, which would have substantially reduced visas and given preference to independent immigrants with English-speaking skills. 1993 CAA and Latino groups work to intervene in the desegregation lawsuit against the San Francisco Unified School District in order to improve services for educationally disadvantaged minority students, especially low-income and immigrant students. 1995 CAA convinces SFUSD to transform Galileo High School into a magnet Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, benefiting its primarily low-income, minority, immigrant, and limited-English proficient students. 1996 -1998 CAA plays a lead role in coordinating opposition to California Proposition 209, the anti-affirmative action initiative, and Proposition 227′s attack on bilingual education. Staff develop programs to help local businesses and workers overcome the barriers created by 209. To serve the Chinese American community in the rapidly changing Visitacion Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, CAA opens an office in The Village, home to numerous organizations serving the diverse communities of the Valley. 1999 CAA successfully advocates for millions of dollars in state and local funds to support Census 2000 ethnic media coverage and community outreach, aimed at improving the count of usually dramatically underenumerated APAs and other hard-to-count communities. 2000 CAA combats the racial profiling and incarceration of Dr. Wen Ho Lee through national organizing, supporting legal actions, and media advocacy, including purchase of a full-page ad in the New York Times entitled “Charged with being ethnic Chinese.” 2001 CAA successfully advocates for the passage of the Equal Access to Services Ordinance in San Francisco, requiring key City agencies to provide services to limited-English proficient communities. 2002 A study published by CAA finds a 22% decrease in total dollars awarded to minority/women-owned businesses in seven government agencies after passage of Proposition 209, resulting in a loss of almost $100 million dollars annually to these businesses. 2003 CAA opens the first statewide policy office for Asian and Pacific Americans based in Sacramento. Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality works on issues such as language access, voting rights, equal opportunity, and educational equity. AACRE produces the first Asian and Pacific American Legislative Report Card, reporting on how California state legislators voted on priority issues for Asian and Pacific Americans. CAA teams up with grassroots APA organizations around the state to defeat Proposition 54, which would have banned state and local governments from gathering race and ethnicity data. 2004 CAA launches the Visitacion Valley Parents Association, a community organizing project for limited-English proficient Chinese Americans in Visitacion Valley, focused on parent leadership development to improve public education. CAA releases The Language of Business: Adopting Private Sector Practices to Increase Limited- English Proficient Individuals’ Access to Government Services. 2005 No Parents Left Behind, a CAA report recommending public school improvements in the translation of important written communications into languages parents can understand, leads to new allocations to the California Department of Education to increase resources for translation. CAA and AACRE co-sponsor and get passed the California Hate Crime Civil Remedies Act. 2006 To meet the needs of dislocated garment workers, CAA partners with community groups to expand vocational training and job placement services. CAA publishes Lost Without Translation, a survey report on language barriers faced by LEP parents with children in the San Francisco Unified School District. CAA participates in multiple efforts to combat racist stereotyping and hate speech in the media, as well as to ensure and mobilize a progressive APA voice on issues ranging from protecting Chinese Hospital to comprehensive immigration reform. 2007 CAA successfully advocates for an Office of Language Services in San Francisco, doubles the funding available to support LEP public school parents in San Francisco, and secures funding for a neighborhood workforce center in Chinatown. CAA leads over 100 community groups in the historic community mobilization to win approval for a permanent City College Campus in San Francisco Chinatown to provide generations of immigrant students with equal access to educational opportunities. 2008 To improve public safety and protect immigrants rights, CAA and allies successfully advocate for a San Francisco Police Department General Order on police interactions with LEP residents. To foster the next generation of APA leaders, CAA and API Equality train the first nine Helen Zia Fellows for Social Change to lead social justice campaigns on California college campuses. 2009 CAA publishes Access Deferred: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities, which surveys the experiences of limited-English proficient Chinese- and Spanish-speaking residents when they interact with San Francisco City agencies. Findings from the report help convince San Francisco Supervisors and the Mayor to adopt stronger language access laws in the City. CAA convinces the U.S. Census Bureau to reverse a harmful policy that would have limited communication between Census and U.S. residents on the advance letter–an important notification–to English-only. Through CAA’s efforts, the Census agrees to mail the notification letters in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Russian. 2010 CAA leads the San Francisco Yes We Count Coalition, a historic multiracial and multicultural collaborative of grassroots organizations, to conduct canvassing in support of the 2010 Census. As a result of the Yes We Count’s work, traditionally undercounted San Francisco neighborhoods achieve major gains in Census participation compared to 2000. CAA releases The Failure of Good Faith, a report that studies and makes recommendations to reform hiring procedures on San Francisco-funded construction projects. Based on the report, CAA mobilizes to help pass one of the strongest mandatory local hiring ordinances in the country. CAA provides critical leadership to address neighborhood safety issues in diverse communities, and helps garner resources and attention to the unique public safety communication needs in and between minority groups.
Linden Research, Inc., d/b/a Linden Lab, is a privately held American Internet company that is best known as the creator of Second Life.The company's head office is in San Francisco, with additional offices in Boston, Seattle, Virginia and Davis, California. Its offices in Mountain View, Brighton, Singapore and Amsterdam were closed in 2010. In addition, the company employs remote workers that communicate and collaborate on projects using Second Life technology.HistoryThe company, founded in 1999, employs numerous established high-tech veterans, including former executives from Electronic Arts, eBay, Disney, Adobe, and Apple. The company's founder and original CEO is Philip Rosedale, a former CTO of RealNetworks, one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World in 2007.
David Bushnell and Richard Parker met while studying for their Bachelor of Architecture degrees at Cornell University, and they have remained close friends ever since. Their post-college career of collaboration was born out of a shared vision that architecture can make the world a better place. They committed to an architecture practice of integrity, one that combined honest materials with harmonious modern design, honoring the roots of each site to create warm, inviting spaces. It is within this balanced philosophy that their ecologically intelligent architecture firm was born. Since its inception, 450 Architects has defied limits, forging an innovative practice of ecologically mindful architecture. Before the term “sustainability” became mainstream, 450 Architects promoted the benefits of earth-preserving practices through advocacy and action. While invested in creating the best possible environments, as architects we are not interested in imposing merely our own perspective onto our projects. Rather, we work with our clients with an ethos of partnership and equanimity to help bring the best possible version of the client’s own vision to fruition. 450 Architects’ approach is collaborative and hands-on, balancing conceptual innovation with thoughtful craftsmanship to shape soulful spaces and structures. Our expertise translates perfectly to a diverse variety of assignments, both large and small scale: residential, commercial, renewable, educational, and open and public space. While we have a passionate interest in creating beautiful private dwellings,we are particularly driven toward civic work, a deeply engaged consideration of how a building can impact a wider public and accommodate people in a nourishing, uplifting, and lasting way.