Mr. John King

Mission Rock will be a 28-acre mixed-use urban neighborhood located on the San Francisco Bay waterfront, across from Oracle Park. The defining first phase, completed in 2024, consists of 8 acres of open space, over 1,000 new homes with 40 percent reserved for moderate-income households, 1.4 million square feet of office space, and 200,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space, which emerged from a meaningful collaboration between Tishman Speyer's public/private partnership and their design team. In a collaborative process designed and led by Studio Gang, with Henning Larsen, MVRDV, WORKac, and SCAPE, their contributions to the neighborhood work simultaneously and in communication with each other. The result is a neighborhood in which the buildings work together not only in terms of their character, but also functionally, with innovative approaches such as shared technical equipment. As San Francisco and other cities navigate recovery from the pandemic and confront the transformation of postindustrial waterfronts or surface parking into dynamic places for people, Mission Rock shows how a co-creative process can lead to successful placemaking. In this panel, representatives from Tishman Speyer and all five design studios will discuss how the uniquely collaborative process helped the team evolve the master plan into a cohesive approach, balancing the priorities of the public/private partnership and enabling features such as shared infrastructure and resiliency.

San Francisco's Market Street is one of the most iconic civic corridors in the country—and one of the most complex. Earlier this year, ULI San Francisco launched the international Market Street Reimagined ideas competition, drawing more than 170 submissions from around the world. The six winning concepts offered bold, creative visions for Market Street's future, ranging from radical hospitality to transformative greening. In this session, hear directly from the winning teams in rapid-fire presentations, then join a distinguished panel of jurors and a city leader to unpack why these ideas rose to the top, what they reveal about Market Street's challenges and opportunities, and how San Francisco is preparing to move from imagination to action.