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SF's Salesforce Transit Center Now Open for Business
The Salesforce Transit Center, San Francisco’s new multimodal hub that offers one million square feet of space for public transit across the Bay Area, opened Aug. 11 with an event attended by dignitaries including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and San Francisco Mayor London Breed.
The Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA) owns and operates the facility, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects and named through a naming rights agreement with the cloud computing company Salesforce. The transit center replaces the seismically deficient Transbay Terminal with a modern regional transportation hub—four stories above ground and two stories below, covering four blocks—connecting public transit systems across the region.
The transit center includes more than 100,000 square feet of retail space, of which 45 percent has been leased. The first permanent retail tenants will be open by mid-2019, according to TJPA, and an additional 22 letters of intent are in negotiation, representing 95 percent of the available space. On the building’s roof is a 5.4-acre public park that will host year-round free activities.
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Dignitaries cutting the ribbon at the Salesforce Transit Center included SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin, second from left; former TJPA Executive Director Maria Ayerdi, fourth from left; U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, fifth from left; Metropolitan Transportation Commission Board Chair Jake Mackenzie, sixth from left; San Francisco Mayor London Breed, seventh from left; TJPA Board Chair Mohammed Nuru, eighth from left; and TJPA Executive Director Mark Zabaneh, second from right.
Photo courtesy of AC Transit
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The mayor said the new facility “represents San Francisco at our best [and] it reflects our commitment to innovation, transportation, environmental sustainability and community development.”
AC Transit General Manager Michael Hursh said, “The new Salesforce Transit Center allows AC Transit to provide a long-term solution to more than 13,000 daily East Bay riders … Now, with 30 bus bays dedicated exclusively to AC Transit, we can plan for up to 300 additional buses daily, which translates to about 24,000 riders per hour.”
AC Transit introduced service Aug. 12 from the third-level bus deck of the Salesforce Transit Center; the following day, all 27 of the system’s transbay bus lines transferred their operations from the Transbay Temporary Terminal—which entered service when the Transbay Terminal closed—to the new bus deck. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency began bus service earlier at street level and additional regional public transit agencies will also provide service from the deck.
The $2.26 billion Transit Center received funding from U.S. DOT, the state of California, Metropolitan Transportation Commission, San Francisco County Transportation Authority, City and County of San Francisco, San Mateo County Transportation Authority (SamTrans) and AC Transit. The opening-day event featured free activities including music, fitness classes, games, tours and live performances, as well as exhibits of historic and state-of-the-art buses.
TJPA also announced that planning and design are underway for Phase 2 of the project: a 1.3-mile Downtown Rail Extension that will bring Caltrain commuter rail from its current terminus to the transit center. The center will also be the northern terminus for California’s High-Speed Rail system.
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