Relatively few locals got to see the transit center and the rooftop park in the six weeks it was first open, so many of us would wait almost a year, until July 2019, to get a good look at the place when it finally reopened. "Motorists are kindly asked to avoid driving downtown," the Transbay Joint Powers Authority said in a statement at the time, and "transit riders are encouraged to allow extra time for their commute." A little over one month later, in September 2018, a crack was discovered in a steel beam underpinning the bus deck, and this led to closure of the entire facility and the closure - for safety - of the two underpasses that went beneath the building on Fremont and First streets.ģ0 bus lines had to be redirected back to the temporary Transbay transit hub nearby, and traffic was pretty nightmarish in the area for weeks. That opening was short-lived, as you'll likely recall. The $2.26 billion project caused many headaches for downtown commuters during its eight-year construction, and San Franciscans were thrilled to finally see the new bus deck, the grand new lobbies, and the majestic rooftop park in action that August day four years ago.Īs Hoodline reported at the time, the debut of the new "Grand Central Station of the West" came with "perhaps the biggest neighborhood block party the city has ever seen." Photo: Nikki Collister/Hoodline Photo: Nikki Collister/Hoodline Photo: Nikki Collister/Hoodline Photo: Nikki Collister/Hoodline The big opening event for San Francisco's replacement for the former Transbay Transit Center - part of a joint development project with Salesforce Tower, previously known as Transbay Tower, that led to a design competition in 2007 - was a crowded affair. But the building and its rooftop park remain shining examples of innovative urban development and canaries in the coal mine of a slowly reviving downtown, waiting for you to return. Since then there was an abrupt closure due to structural concerns, a reopening, and we've had a lengthy pandemic that has kept the area surrounding Salesforce Transit Center pretty sleepy. Four years ago this past Friday, on August 12, 2018, we saw the long-anticipated grand opening of one of San Francisco's grandest infrastructure projects in decades.
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