Four Embarcadero Center, Skyscraper in Financial District, San Francisco, United States
Four Embarcadero Center is a 45-story, 174 m (571 ft) office tower in the Financial District of San Francisco, completed in 1982. It is the tallest of the six interconnected buildings of Embarcadero Center and was designed by John Portman & Associates in the international style. The building includes a large parking garage and a shopping complex.
Construction of this tower was completed in 1982 on the site of a former produce market near the waterfront. The project transformed what had been a working dock area into an office district that became a hub for major corporations.
Four Embarcadero Center is one of six interconnected buildings forming the Embarcadero Center complex, which also includes an off-site extension. Its best-known tenants have included GATX Corporation, First Union Securities and Sheppard Mullin Richter. The complex was bought in 1998 by Boston Properties, which still owned it as of 2021.
Four Embarcadero Center sits at 37.79530, -122.39620 in the Financial District, within the Embarcadero Center complex of six interconnected towers. The complex also holds a large parking garage and a shopping complex, so offices, shops and restaurants are reached without leaving the site. The waterfront and ferry terminals lie just east of the towers.
The 1998 sale that brought Four Embarcadero Center to Boston Properties covered four towers, 275 Battery Street and the Old Federal Reserve Bank Building, bought from Prudential Insurance and David Rockefeller for US$1.22 billion. The tower is the tallest of the six-building Embarcadero Center complex, edging out One Embarcadero Center, whose height is measured without its flagpole.
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