Mobile Workshops
Please note: For all "sold out" events, if any tickets become available at a later time as a result of a cancellation, they will be available only during onsite registration on a first-come, first-served basis.
| TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 | Ticket Fee |
| SOLD OUT (11:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., lunch included) Join us as we visit $700 million worth of new, dynamic, mixed-use projects in the heart of Silicon Valley: Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life/Altaire/Alta Torre and the Rosewood Sand Hill Hotel and adjoining Class A Offices, Stanford University's new 21-acre, mixed-use development. The 120-room luxury Rosewood Sand Hill Hotel also offers modern conference facilities, and an outstanding restaurant and spa. The project is nestled into the foothills on legendary Sand Hill Road, the venture capital hub of the world. Next, tour the Taube Koret Campus, a 12-acre, master planned, mixed-use project that has created a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly intergenerational campus. There are 350 new residences, office, retail, educational facilities for preschoolers to seniors, a performing arts center, and a state-of-the-art 145,000 SF fitness facility. The campus will have 193 senior housing units, anticipated to be LEED silver, 103 market rate town homes, and 56 high-quality rental apartments for very low-income seniors - both Build It Green rated. The project is a brownfield redevelopment of a former Sun Microsystems campus. Tour includes lunch in one of the new facilities on the campus. Come hear how these projects have remained competitive in today's environment. |
$ 95 |
| TICKET #5 • Reuse and Repositioning of Corporate Campuses: Economics, Design and Sustainability (12:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m., lunch included) The last office investment cycle produced a significant number of innovative projects focused on the repositioning and reuse of existing office buildings and corporate campuses (as opposed to new development), and three in the Bay Area offer a tour-de-force of variations on the theme. First, the China Basin building near the AT&T Park in the SOMA/Mission Bay area was a pioneer when it expanded vertically, adding two floors and 175,000 square feet of space. Now, advanced structural engineering analysis is taking the concept further as other San Francisco commercial structures in the Presidio and Financial District are adding 2 and 4 stories - out of thin air. The second stop will be, headquarters campus for Google in Mountain View provides an example of a former brownfield-turned-greenspace, and buildings that are a model of high-productive workplace. The third stop will be, the VISA campus in San Mateo just south of the San Francisco International Airport, built in the 1980s but now reborn as ClearView, a 270,000 square foot campus using LEED-EB technology and innovative design to bring a dated project into 21st Century standards. You won't want to miss these examples of innovation! |
$ 95 |
| SOLD OUT (1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) Join us for an exclusive tour of one of San Francisco's core redevelopment areas: Mission Bay. This 303-acre former rail yard is being transformed into a major new mixed-use waterfront neighborhood just minutes south of San Francisco's financial district. This public/private/institutional partnership features a new research and healthcare campus for the University of California San Francisco as the magnet for a new 4.5 million-square-foot biotechnology/life science cluster, along with 6,000 new high-density residential units, retail, and 43 acres of new parks, served by over half a billion dollars of new infrastructure at final buildout.. Come learn about the innovative entitlement, and public financing structures that have made this the fastest growing area in San Francisco, with over 3,200 residences and 1.6 million square feet of private commercial development completed since the 1998 start. The tour will be led by senior San Francisco Redevelopment Agency officials with site visits to residential, university and biotech projects. Speakers will include the Mission Bay master developer and residential and commercial "vertical" developers as well as UC San Francisco representatives, who will explain the elements of success in this case study of urban redevelopment. |
$ 65 |
| SOLD OUT (1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) With its high-cost housing market and congested roadways, the eco-conscious San Francisco Bay Area is a natural fit for transit-oriented development, with both the public and private sectors working to increase density along public transit corridors. The mobile workshop will tour two TOD projects now underway in communities served by the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) rail system. The Dublin Transit Center is a fifty-acre master planned mixed use community adjacent to the East Dublin BART station planned for 1,800 residential units and 2 million square feet of commercial space. The Contra Costa Centre Transit Village involves the redevelopment of 18 acres of surface parking serving BART's Pleasant Hill station into 522 residential units and 290,000 square feet of office space. This tour will include presentations by the private developers, non-profit developers, and public and transit officials who are collaborating on these complex projects. Tour participants will learn about the entitlement history, public/private financial structure, market analyses, and political process for each project. |
$ 65 |
| SOLD OUT (1:30 p.m.-5:30 p.m.) Please join us for an exciting tour of San Francisco’s high-profile new condominium developments. You’ll have the opportunity to see these landmark buildings from the outside in, while learning details behind their challenges and successes. The Infinity was developed by Tishman Speyer and is conveniently located just a block from the Embarcadero and within walking distance to the Financial District, Ferry Building and AT&T Park. Offering 650 luxury residences, The Infinity is built as a landmark of sophisticated design. Designed as San Francisco’s first LEED-certified residential buildings, Arterra, developed by Intracorp, combines high-end amenities, sophisticated finishes and environmentally-conscious design. The 269-unit community offers convenient living in San Francisco’s transit-oriented Mission Bay neighborhood. Developed by Urban West Associates and perched on the top of Rincon Hill, One Rincon Hill offers 64 stories of luxury urban living. With panoramic views and generous amenities, One Rincon Hill premiered in June 2006 and is one of the tallest residential buildings west of the Mississippi River. Built in the heart of the South of Market neighborhood, Millennium Tower, developed by Millennium Partners, features 419 luxury homes with world-class amenities and services. At 60 stories tall, Millennium Towers consists of three collections of residences, each offering the finest in San Francisco living. |
$ 65 |
| WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 | Ticket Fee |
| TICKET #10 • Beauty and the Bay — The Revitalization of San Francisco's Waterfront (9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.) The San Francisco waterfront is undergoing a remarkable transformation from industrial uses to recreational, office and visitor-oriented mixed uses that capitalize on stunning views of the Bay. The demolition of the Embarcadero Freeway after the Loma Prieta earthquake reconnected the waterfront to the City, and created an opportunity for truly world-class development of this uniquely beautiful place through new investment and major public/private partnerships led by the Port of San Francisco. Participants will get a behind-the-scenes tour of the Ferry Building by developers Wilson Meany Sullivan, who turned this neglected terminal into office space and a food market that is one of the most visited sites in San Francisco. This walking tour will also visit Pier One, and Piers 1 ½, 3 and 5, which house gourmet restaurants and Class A office space. Participants will learn about the complex agreements that allowed these projects to be developed within a complex regulatory environment, and learn about the public planning and improvements which support these private developments. |
$ 65 |
| TICKET #12 • East Bay Retail — Creative Approaches to Successful Place Making (10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., lunch included) The San Francisco East Bay cities of Berkeley and Emeryville have evolved into trendsetting, financially successful retail districts serving local and regional markets. This mobile workshop will visit five of these districts, each possessing a distinct niche that defines its character and draws shoppers. Berkeley's Fourth Street is a unique upscale master-planned boutique retail district that fits seamlessly into the surrounding residential/light industrial neighborhood; the vibrant "Gourmet Ghetto" in North Berkeley is the epicenter of the Bay Area's organic and locavore food movements. In Emeryville, you will tour three closely connected large-scale retail districts: EmeryBay, a mixed-use entertainment and retail district formed around a market hall currently planned to expand as a LEED-Platinum development; Bay Street, a multilevel open air entertainment and retail center, and East BayBridge, a popular power center. Developers and public officials will brief you on the stories behind these successful projects. |
$ 95 |
| TICKET #13 • Oakland Renaissance: Transforming the Urban Core (11:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m., lunch included) The City of Oakland has suffered for many years from reputation issues. However, at the same time, the Uptown and Lake Merritt districts of Oakland have undergone an amazing transformation through public and private investment, spurred by the city's goal of bringing 10,000 residents into the urban core. Successful efforts include the renovation of fabulous historical landmarks, the addition of significant market rate housing, the development of green office buildings and the completion of the Cathedral of Christ the Light, an amazing beautiful, significant new structure designed by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill's Craig Hartman for the Diocese of Oakland. During this mobile workshop you will bus through downtown Oakland and walk through Uptown and Lake Merritt with leading local and national developers. You will visit the recently renovated Fox Theater; The Broadway Grand condo project; Center 21, CIM Group's new LEED-Gold office building; The Uptown (www.theuptown.net), a large Forest City apartment community; the Kaiser Center roof garden and the new cathedral. This tour will be fun, educational and is certain to change your perception of Oakland! |
$ 95 |
| FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 | Ticket Fee |
| SOLD OUT (1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.) The 1,500-acre Presidio is an extraordinary property-- an historic army base with 800 buildings and city-level infrastructure, beaches, forests and trails, with sweeping views of the ocean, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Marin Headlands--undergoing a unique transformation. The Presidio Trust was established by Congress in 1998, in a new model of federal land management, to create a financially self-sufficient community and National Park by 2013. The Trust is working toward this goal through innovative and sensitive development projects, and reinvestment in natural and physical infrastructure of the land.
Join us in examining some of the Presidio's recent successes and upcoming challenges as it moves towards its ultimate goal of self-sustainability. You will learn the history and mission of the Presidio Trust, as well as ongoing planning and financial strategies as well as visit completed and current development projects, including Lucas Film's Letterman Digital Arts complex and the new Disney Museum, and will hear a presentation on Forest City Development's conversion of the historic but dilapidated Public Health Service Hospital into market-rate residential apartments. |
$ 65 |
