The New Rincon Hill is south of the Financial District and north of the South Beach neighborhood. The area is bounded by Folsom Street, The Embarcadero, Bryant Street, Beale Street, the Bay Bridge approach and the Transbay Terminal ramps. The area contains approximately 55 acres of land, and includes more than 70 parcels. Once the home of the elite at the turn of the century, this neighborhood is currently setting off a new renaissance in SOMA with buildings from 22 to 65 stories, punctuated by slender high-rise residential towers, spaced to allow light and air to streets and maintain an airy feeling to the skyline. A variety of open spaces, ranging from public parks, plazas and pedestrian pathways to private roofdecks, terraces and porches, will be ample and interspersed throughout the district. Building service functions, loading, and parking will be set away from the street or underground.
Neighborhood-serving retail will be concentrated along Folsom Street as the heart of the Rincon Hill and Transbay neighborhoods, and the districts north/south streets will be lined with individual townhouse units with front stoops and landscaped setbacks. Main, Beale and Spear Streets, extending all the way through Rincon Hill and Transbay, will be improved as living streets, with reduced traffic lanes and significantly widened sidewalks featuring usable open spaces and areas for both passive and active recreation. The open space network will feature a new large open space at the corner of Harrison and Fremont Streets, and community recreation uses included as part of a rehabilitated Sailors Union of the Pacific building. |
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