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| Aerial view of the
Ferry Building under construction. Photo courtesy
of Wilson Equity |
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| The
realized vision in computer simulation, from the office
level looking down at the food court storefronts. Photo
courtesy of Wilson Equity. |
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Great
place to work, if you can afford it. The vision for new
office space in the renovated Ferry Building in computer
simulation. Even in a highly-depressed real estate
market, this high-ticket space has blue-chip firms
flirting with developer Wilson Meany. At press time
rumors were swirling that finance form Morgan Stanley
was close to inking a deal. Photo courtesy of Wilson
Meany |
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| Dylan
shows Joel Robinson of the Port of San Francisco and
Richard Mitchell of the Richmond Redevelopment Agency
around. The Port owns the Ferry Building and the
Richmond Redevelopment Building owns former Ford Tank
Factory on the Richmond waterfront, an Art Deco
masterpiece slated for renovation similar to what is
happening at the Ferry Building (ferry service is very
much part of the plan). Dylan is explaining: “Office
space, along with a Port Commission hearing room, occupy
the second floor. The tower will be unoccupied. It’s
to be retained by the Port of San Francisco, with the
Port managing the carillon system and clock. |
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| Dylan:
“The framing up here is original, cleaned, or in rare
cases replaced. It’s all been cleaned and repainted.” |
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guide, Dylan Berry: “We’re hoping to be done mid to
late September with the lion’s share of the work.
There’s been some added pieces of work which may go a
little bit beyond that, but we are still pushing very
hard to meet our original commitments.” |
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Dylan:
“The framing up here is original, cleaned, or in rare
cases replaced. It’s all been cleaned and repainted.” |
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Dylan and the
boss-lady. Dylan Berry and co-developer Michelle
Meany pose proudly before their baby, just about
ready for a’bornin’. |
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| Golden
Gate Ferry docks, as seen from the office-space level of
the Ferry Building. Dylan: “Originally, the Ferry
Building had walkways that extended out from the second
floor out over the water where there were these sort of
finger inlets, where the ferries would come in and the
passengers would get on and off at the second floor, and
then travel back across the second floor down to the
Embarcadero. The ground floor was primarily for baggage
service and for deliveries. So you would check your
baggage at the first floor when you got here and it
would go off under the first floor into the bowels of
the boat and you would go up the second floor to this
grand waiting space and then travel out on the ferry.” |
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