by George Kelly :sfstandard – excerpt
Fresh images for two new towers near San Francisco’s Caltrain station that could bring over 1,100 new homes to the area have been filed with the city.
Developer Tishman Speyer is behind the project at 655 Fourth St. between Townsend and Bluxome streets. The towers will both be over 400 feet tall. The 4th Street Tower, would be 38 floors tall and reach 405 feet; the Townsend Tower would be 40 stories tall and top out at 435 feet…
Construction of the podium building would require the demolition of three current buildings along with seven surface parking lots and landscaping. The site will be just steps from Caltrain and the Central Subway’s 4th/Brannan station as well as several minutes’ walk from the San Francisco Giants’ Oracle Park.
When complete, it would include 129 studio apartments, 539 one-bedroom units, 400 two-bedroom apartments and 37 three-bedroom homes. Of the building’s total 1,105 residential units, 391 would have balconies for private open space.
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