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FWIW, I’m pretty sure this study only uses customer data from United Van Lines.

Surprised the "wind tunnel" along Van Ness hasn’t been called out more specifically. The old AAA tower on Van Ness makes for hellaciosly strong winds blowing North. I was carrying a large box with a new computer in it, and the wind was so strong just past Fell Street that my box was literally blown and held up sideways in hands. This new tower has got to throw a curve to mother nature. I will bet the wind noise whistling by an open window on this bldg will be significant also. It would be interesting to see a wind chart showing the currents and eddys of the area.

The design looks fine and is a good use of the site. What is not OK is the height of this tower relative to the beautiful 1911 Beaux-Arts building at 25 Van Ness. The rendering shows that, given its planned height, the tower would overwhelm the neighboring building.

Wow! A strikingly beautiful design for this underused corner of Van Ness and Market. It will really anchor this corner as a major hub, and extend the skyline up market. This project should act as a draw for other projects in the area. The building also has elements of design that remind me of the up coming Sales Force Tower closer to the other end of Market, with a new and literal "twist".

@armchair boogie: I take your point on urban design, and true we are left what we have to work with. But SF will never have things like Venice Beach, Santee Alley, the Toy District.. That sort of intensity comes from being a world city at the core of a region and trade network that has reached critical mass. The mistakes in some aspects of our design can easily be reworked, the bones are there. Think North Beach, Market Street, Valencia (what is being attempted on Van Ness)…

@armchair boogie: While I’ve been pretty harsh on SF in this thread and defensive of LA, you are spot on with these points.

There are very few streets in SF (city) I have to think twice before crossing (maybe just Market, Geary, Van Ness, Lombard). In general both the infrastructure and the culture of SF give absolute priority to pedestrians, cyclists, and transit and those are by far the best modes to experience San Francisco.

If I felt like the long walk, I would have no problem walking from the Outer Richmond to Downtown and would rarely be more than 3 blocks from a bus stop or handful of markets & cafes.

While I agree that, in general, LA has the upper hand on SF (I’ve come to say this much to my own surprise), and it is far more walk-able than people who haven’t lived there recognize: there is no contest to overall walkability in San Francisco city.

This has Van Damme written all over it.

Now is the time to desuburbanize the SFV lets build a rail network better than the one in downtown. Designate some areas like maybe where Walmart is for a mega mall like the Grove or the Target complex downtown and build a bigger version of Century Cityin say Van Nuys rename it and also build some lush Botanical Gardens central park style. Lets declare a start to the end of the NIMBYfied sad Strip mall trashpit that the Valley is today. That is the future we should all support, orange line rail yes and please add priority gates at all street xings thanks.

@bigcityofdreams: The line is busy between the City, Oakland and Berkeley… densely populated, walkable urban neighborhoods. Walnut Creek has little to do with it. I’d argue the money to build that extension would’ve been better spent on a number of other corridors where ridership would clearly be a lot higher (Geary, Van Ness, infill stops in the Outer Mission and East Oakland, etc.)

Vapid and infantile comment from Keeling – but then that’s pretty much what I’d expect from 7×7, so I shouldn’t be surprised.

What is surprising is no one mentioned the new cruise ship terminal, or the SF Jazz Center (or did that open last year?). Or, for re-use, the complete gutting and re-cladding of the old AAA building on Van Ness, or the complete renovation and expansion of the Officer’s Club at the Presidio. A real paucity of vision and knowledge in these "expert" opinions!