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Walking Tour of Salesforce Transit Center and Park
exploring sf
When?
Monday, Apr 29
2:00PM - 3:30PM PDT
Where?
In-person
Description
Event Description: Join us for a private SF City Guides tour for NEXT Villagers to explore Salesforce Transit Center and Park with David Reed.
Running just adjacent to the tallest skyscraper in San Francisco, the Salesforce Transit Center is a unique structure anchoring a new neighborhood and connecting the city with its suburbs and beyond. It sits in the heart of one of the city’s original residential neighborhoods that was transformed into a center of light industry for more than a century. Today, it occupies the site of a 1939 transit terminal, but instead of factories and warehouses, it is surrounded by the tallest and newest buildings in the city.
We will go on a leisurely stroll of the stunning public spaces in this tour-de-force of post-modernist design, to learn about its features both functional and fantastic. We will tour its soaring Grand Hall, experience its multimedia public art and a “secret garden,” visit the center’s renowned rooftop park of lush gardens, and take in unmatched skyline views.
This tour is given in collaboration with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA). The TJPA is owner and operator of the multimodal Salesforce Transit Center that connects nine transit systems from eight Bay Area counties; it manages the 5.4 acre public rooftop Park found on top of the Center and offers free public activities year-round; and it is working to extend Caltrain and ultimately, California High-Speed Rail service from 4th and King streets to the Salesforce Transit Center in downtown San Francisco through the Downtown Rail Extension project. For more information on the TJPA, visit their website.
We thank NEXT Village member & D2U Advisor Edith Kaplan for organizing this event.
*About San Francisco City Guides: City Guides volunteers are serious about sharing the fun of discovering San Francisco and its neighborhoods to preserve and perpetuate the history and folklore of San Francisco and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity. If you have not yet gone on one of their 70+ walking tours around the city, we hope you will join us for this tour to experience learning about a bit of our fair City with “volunteer ambassador” and SF City Guide Board Member David Reed. While this tour is free, an optional SF City Guides donation envelope will be passed around at the end of the tour. If you are able, we encourage you to make a donation to this fantastic nonprofit. Learn more and check out walking tours available at sfcityguides.org.
If you can't join us for this tour, you can take the public SF City Guides Salesforce Transit Center walking tour, Click here for SF City Guides Salesforce walk info.
Running just adjacent to the tallest skyscraper in San Francisco, the Salesforce Transit Center is a unique structure anchoring a new neighborhood and connecting the city with its suburbs and beyond. It sits in the heart of one of the city’s original residential neighborhoods that was transformed into a center of light industry for more than a century. Today, it occupies the site of a 1939 transit terminal, but instead of factories and warehouses, it is surrounded by the tallest and newest buildings in the city.
We will go on a leisurely stroll of the stunning public spaces in this tour-de-force of post-modernist design, to learn about its features both functional and fantastic. We will tour its soaring Grand Hall, experience its multimedia public art and a “secret garden,” visit the center’s renowned rooftop park of lush gardens, and take in unmatched skyline views.
This tour is given in collaboration with the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA). The TJPA is owner and operator of the multimodal Salesforce Transit Center that connects nine transit systems from eight Bay Area counties; it manages the 5.4 acre public rooftop Park found on top of the Center and offers free public activities year-round; and it is working to extend Caltrain and ultimately, California High-Speed Rail service from 4th and King streets to the Salesforce Transit Center in downtown San Francisco through the Downtown Rail Extension project. For more information on the TJPA, visit their website.
We thank NEXT Village member & D2U Advisor Edith Kaplan for organizing this event.
*About San Francisco City Guides: City Guides volunteers are serious about sharing the fun of discovering San Francisco and its neighborhoods to preserve and perpetuate the history and folklore of San Francisco and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity. If you have not yet gone on one of their 70+ walking tours around the city, we hope you will join us for this tour to experience learning about a bit of our fair City with “volunteer ambassador” and SF City Guide Board Member David Reed. While this tour is free, an optional SF City Guides donation envelope will be passed around at the end of the tour. If you are able, we encourage you to make a donation to this fantastic nonprofit. Learn more and check out walking tours available at sfcityguides.org.
If you can't join us for this tour, you can take the public SF City Guides Salesforce Transit Center walking tour, Click here for SF City Guides Salesforce walk info.
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