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Originally Posted by Ant131531
How does SF even have the room to build this much? Are they destroying buildings to go more vertical?
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While there is a lack of enough land to keep up with the huge demand for housing, there's actually been plenty of room to build stuff, mostly through infill development that's replaced parking lots, empty lots, abandoned buildings, smaller buildings of no historical significance, etc. The only large scale development is the ongoing Mission Bay project, which replaced an old train yard and a bunch of warehouses and industrial stuff. What jsimms3 posted is just scratching the surface of what's been built in SF over the past 15 years.
Here's a list just of highrises (115+ feet/35+ meters) that have been built/started construction in SF since 2000:
2000's
1. Millennium tower ------------ 645' - 2009
2. One Rincon Hill south tower -- 640' - 2008
3. 555 Mission street ----------- 487' - 2008
4. St. Regis tower -------------- 484' - 2005
5. Infinity tower II -------------- 450' - 2009
6. JPMorgan Chase Building ------ 420' - 2002
7. The Paramount --------------- 420' - 2002
8. Infinity tower I --------------- 400' - 2008
9. Four Seasons Hotel ----------- 398' - 2001
10. 101 Second street ----------- 354' - 2000
11. InterContinental hotel -------- 340' - 2008
12. 55 Second Street ------------ 330' - 2002
13. 150 California ---------------- 330' - 2000
14. The Metropolitan I ----------- 266' - 2004
15. Bridgeview ------------------ 26 floors - 2002
16. Trinity Place building I ------- 24 floors - 2009
17. US Federal Building ---------- 234' - 2007
18. SoMa Grand ----------------- 233' - 2007
19. The Watermark -------------- 22 floors - 2006
20. The Metropolitan II ---------- 217' - 2004
21. BLŪ ------------------------- 209' - 2008
22. Argenta --------------------- 20 floors - 2008
23. The Brannan tower I --------- 18 floors - 2001
24. The Brannan tower II -------- 18 floors - 2001
25. The Brannan tower III ------- 18 floors - 2002
26. Courtyard San Francisco ----- 18 floors - 2001
27. Avalon Mission Bay I --------- 17 floors - 2003
28. Avalon Mission Bay II -------- 17 floors - 2006
29. Avalon Mission Bay III ------- 17 floors - 2009
30. Arterra --------------------- 16 floors - 2008
31. Beacon west ---------------- 16 floors - 2003
32. Beacon east ---------------- 16 floors - 2003
33. Hearst Tower --------------- 155' - 2005
34. 199 New Montgomery street - 150' - 2004
35. International Hotel ----------- 15 floors - 2005
36. Gap Building ----------------- 15 floors - 2001
37. 125 Mason Street ------------ 14 floors - 2008
38. Foundry Square I ------------ 145' - 2007
39. Foundry Square II ------------ 145' - 2003
40. Foundry Square IV ----------- 145' - 2003
41. M.H. de Young Museum ------- 144' - 2005
42. Symphony tower ------------- 130' - 2007
43. The Heritage on Fillmore ------ 13 floors - 2007
44. 10th & Mission Family Housing - 12 floors - 2009
45. 301 Mission street ------------ 12 floors - 2008
46. Moscone Center expansion ---- 115' - 2003
2010's (including under construction and site prep/demo)
1. Transbay tower ----------- 1,070' - 2014 (u/c start)
2. 181 Fremont ---------------- 802' - 2014 (u/c start)
3. One Rincon Hill north tower -- 541' - 2012 (u/c start, topped out)
4. 350 Mission ----------------- 455' - 2013 (u/c start)
5. 45 Lansing ------------------ 450' - 2013 (u/c start)
6. Lumina tower I -------------- 450' - 2013 (u/c start)
7. 399 Fremont ---------------- 440' - 2014 (u/c start)
8. 340 Fremont ---------------- 430' - 2014 (demolition)
9. Lumina tower II ------------- 400' - 2013 (u/c start)
10. 535 Mission ---------------- 378 - 2013 (u/c resumed, foundation started in 2008. Topped out)
11. Nema tower I -------------- 352' - 2014
12. 222 Second street --------- 350' - 2013 (u/c start)
13. 299 Fremont --------------- 350' - 2014 (u/c start)
14. CPMC Van Ness ------------ 260' - 2014 (demolition)
15. One Hawthorne street ------ 25 floors - 2010
16. Trinity Place building 2 ----- 22 floors - 2013
17. Trinity Place building 3 ----- 22 floors - 2014 (site prep)
18. Nema tower II ------------- 220' - 2014
19. CCSF Chinatown campus --- 216' - 2012
20. AVA ---------------------- 205' - 2013
21. 1400 Mission -------------- 200' - 2014 (u/c start)
22. SFMOMA expansion ------- 195' - 2014 (u/c start)
23. P.U.C. Headquarters ------ 181' - 2012
24. Madrone tower I ---------- 16 floors - 2012
25. Madrone tower II --------- 16 floors - 2012
26. Arden tower I ------------ 16 floors - 2013
27. Arden tower II ----------- 16 floors - 2013
28. Hampton Inn ------------- 15 floors - 2013 (u/c start, topped out)
29. Foundry Square III ------- 145' - 2014
30. 1415 Mission ------------- 14 floors - 2014 (u/c start)
31. 1285 Sutter -------------- 13 floors - 2013
32. 1450 Franklin ------------- 13 floors - 2014 (site prep)
33. Mission Bay block 13w ---- 13 floors - 2013 (u/c start)
34. 1321 Mission ------------- 11 floors - 2014 (u/c start)
35. SF General Hospital addition - 8 floors (u/c, supposed to be done in 2015, not sure when construction started. I'm pretty sure it's 35+ meters tall, despite the low floor count)
In addition to that, there are 30 approved highrises that I can think of which haven't started any work yet, 29 of which are part of the big and slow-moving Treasure Island, Hunters Point, and Park Merced redevelopment projects, which haven't started at all yet, and two of which hare having funding issues...so those ones won't be built for a while. And I guess there's always the possibility that NIMBYs kill some of them in the future.
As far as highrise proposals go, there are 36 that I know of, many of which are likely to be approved within the next couple years.
So while SF is obviously very dense, especially by American standards, I think a lot of people don't realize that it's not literally built up 100%, and there's still room to grow, mostly through infill.