China Basin Landing
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China Basin Landing on Third Street
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 China Basin Landing
China Basin Landing
China Basin Landing
Location within San Francisco
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| General information | |
| Location | 185 Berry Street |
| Town or city | San Francisco, California |
| Coordinates | 37°46′35″N 122°23′31″W / 37.776348°N 122.391839°WCoordinates: 37°46′35″N 122°23′31″W / 37.776348°N 122.391839°W |
| Owner | Blackstone Group |
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| Size | 902,000 square feet (83,800 m2) |
China Basin Landing, now referred to as simply China Basin, is an office complex on the border of the South of Market (SoMa) and Mission Bay areas of San Francisco, California. The complex has 917,000 square feet (85,200 m2) of space. It is the headquarters of Lyft and Dignity Health.
Barry Lawrence, a developer from San Diego, California, purchased the site of the China Basin Landing building in 1982. The site had a 465,000-square-foot (43,200 m2) six story existing structure, the China Basin Building, dating back to the 1920s or earlier. Lawrence spent $40 million to renovate the older building and build a new three story, 207,000 square feet (19,200 m2) office facility next to the existing structure. The new office building, which opened in 1991, was the final major office building in San Francisco to open during that year.
As an office facility, a portion originally it had three stories, while another portion had six stories. The entire facility had a total of 725,000 square feet (67,400 m2) of space. At one point the building was converted from warehouses to offices. A parking garage was established so the building owners could get a variance that permitted them to convert the building to offices.
In 1998, Blackstone Group owned the building.
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) bought China Basin Landing in 2005 for $260 million.
Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (HOK) San Francisco designed a two story expansion on top of the existing 1991 section of the China Basin Landing facility.
In 2011, Dropbox announced that it would take the fourth floor with an option for the fifth, and the center became 91% leased.
China Basin Landing is located on one city block bounded by 3rd Street, 4th Street, Berry Street, and the China Basin Canal. It is across from AT&T Park and it overlooks McCovey Cove.
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