Acquiring Office Space
The San Francisco commercial real estate sector comprises approximately 70 million square feet, primarily located on the east side of the City and divided into two sections: the North side of Market Street (NOMA) and the South side of Market Street (SOMA). These two distinct areas are divided into approximately nine sub markets, each with specific characteristics.
The Financial District serves as the main central business district in the city. It has an abundance of modern and historic buildings that house headquarters of corporations like McKesson Corporation, Wells Fargo and more. It offers access to many bus lines and train transportation. There are also shopping malls around the financial district like Embarcadero Center, the Ferry Building, Crocker Galleria and Macy´s in Union Square shopping district.
The SOMA neighborhood contains many smaller neighborhoods such as South Park, Yerba Buena, South Beach, and Financial District South (part of the Financial District), and overlaps with several others, notably Mission Bay, and the Mission District.This neighborhood is a vast and diverse stretch of warehouses, museums, auto repair shops, nightclubs, residential hotels, art spaces, loft apartments, furniture showrooms, condominiums, and technology companies. Major software and technology companies have headquarters here, including Wired, Sega of America Inc., CNET Networks, Twitter, Justin.tv, BitTorrent Inc., Yelp, Rapleaf and Advent Software among others.
Mission Bay is a 303 acres campus dedicated to Life Sciences & Technology. It is the hub of the U.S. life sciences and biotech industry, supported by world-class labs, incubators, and scientists. The area is bounded by Townsend Street on the north, Third Street and San Francisco Bay on the east, Mariposa Street on the south, and 7th Street and Interstate 280 on the west.
San Francisco's Mission Bay neighborhood is a model for collaborative innovation between the biotechnology industry and academic researchers. It is currently the headquarters of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, UCSF Mission Bay Campus and more.
San Francisco's premier convention facility, Moscone Center, added an additional 300,000 square feet of function space in 2003. With the completion of Moscone West, which opened in 2003, today's Moscone Center is a collection of facilities covering more than 20 acres on three adjacent blocks. It anchors the 87-acre Yerba Buena Center redevelopment district in a neighborhood of hotels, theaters, restaurants, museums, galleries, housing, parks, and urban recreation centers.
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