Located in the heart of San Francisco's Financial District, 101 California is a 48-story tower encompassing 1.2 million square feet of office space. The tower is cylindrical in shape with articulated edges of alternating bands of granite and glass, featuring a seven-story, glass-enclosed lobby at its base, and a granite-paved triangular plaza that contains seasonal flowers, seating and a fountain. 101 California was completed in 1982.

Completed in 2000, this 26-story building was acquired in tandem with 55 Second Street by the Hines U.S. Office Core Fund in 2004. 101 Second is defined at street level by its cornerstone of a dramatic glass clad, four-story atrium which serves as an art pavillion featuring major art commissions by painter Charles Arnoldi and sculptor Larry Bell, as well as a significant public space for tenants and visitors. On warm days, the street-level glass is opened to bring the outdoors inside.

Completed in 2000, this 26-story building was acquired in tandem with 55 Second Street by the Hines U.S. Office Core Fund in 2004. 101 Second is defined at street level by its cornerstone of a dramatic glass clad, four-story atrium which serves as an art pavillion featuring major art commissions by painter Charles Arnoldi and sculptor Larry Bell, as well as a significant public space for tenants and visitors. On warm days, the street-level glass is opened to bring the outdoors inside.

As one of the first post WWII skyscrapers, this 25-story building was designed by William Peugh and developed by Equitable Life Insurance as their headquqarters in 1955. The design juxaposes a classical white marble facade against aluminum art-deco window framing to create a timeless modern presence in the heart of the financial district. Hines acquired the building in January 2006.

The 542,743-square-foot Class A office property, located in the heart of the Financial District of San Francisco, was acquired in a joint venture between Hines and Sterling American Property. Designed by award winning architect Skidmore Owings & Merrill, 333 Bush Street is located between Montgomery and Kearny Street. The Class A office property is also within walking distance to Union Square, the Crocker Galleria as well as some of San Francisco’s finest restaurants and top hotels.

Sansome combines a 16-story structure with a significant historic building on a full-block site. 343 Sansome was one of the first buildings approved after the passage of Proposition M and reflects the scale of development for San Francisco under the Downtown Plan. At 16 stories, the project avoids the creation of new shadows on public park spaces and is sympathetic to the height, scale and design of neighboring buildings. The lobby level includes a sculpture court and entrances off both Sansome and Sacramento streets. There are also 13,000 square feet of retail space, with storefronts opening on Sansome, Sacramento and Leidesdorff streets. A landscaped roof garden is open to the public.

Completed in 1984, 580 California is a 23-story, 310,000-square-foot tower that features a two-story arcade marked by granite archways at street level, bay windows separated by rounded columns and a classic French mansard roof. Highlighting the two-story roofline are statues on all four sides of the building.

Since its opening in 1999, 701 Gateway has established a new quality standard by which other projects are compared. The building is currently 100% leased with tenants such as Actuate Corporation, Rockwell Electronic Commerce and Telstra Incorporated.

As the centerpiece of the 475,000-square-foot Gateway North Campus in South San Francisco, 801 Gateway integrates efficient office building design criteria with a captivating loft-style window wall facing the San Francisco Bay.

Designed to be flexible enough to accommodate a multitude of users from office to high-tech to biotechnology, 801 Gateway features expansive floor plates of over 28,500 square feet, ceiling heights of over 10 feet and floor loads of over 100 pounds per square foot.

150,000-square-foot campus in South San Francisco's biotech cluster and leased it in phases to Corixa (formerly Coulter Pharmaceuticals), a developer of immunotherapeutics. Hines worked closely with Corixa to expedite both shell and tenant improvement construction, and coordinated numerous tenant-driven design changes, shepherding them through the approval process. Each phase was delivered on schedule and on budget. The project was completed in 2001.

The JPMorgan Chase Building is a 31-story, Class A office building. The 667,782-square-foot building also features two levels of underground parking and a large ground level plaza. The building is 100% leased to JPMorgan Chase & Co. and is their West Coast headquarters. The project is owned by National Office Partners Limited Partnership (NOP), a joint venture between Hines and the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS).

With a suberb location just one-half block off Market Street, its access to transit and amenities is unmatched.

The 1.5 million-square-foot complex consists of a 32-story office building, a 500-space parking garage, a 600,000-square-foot, 16-story historic office building, which was renovated by Hines, and a 24-hour critical computer operations center which is the nerve center for PG&E's northern California energy production and distribution.

The 1,030,000-square-foot project comprises a full city block in San Francisco's Civic Center, a national historic landmark district. The scope of the project includes the renovation and seismic retrofit of the six-story, 200,000-square-foot historic California State Supreme Court Building, and construction of a new 14-story, 830,000-square-foot adjoining office tower. The office tower features one-story twin atriums and large, 50,000-square-foot floor plates.

The 1,030,000-square-foot project comprises a full city block in San Francisco's Civic Center, a national historic landmark district. The scope of the project includes the renovation and seismic retrofit of the six-story, 200,000-square-foot historic California State Supreme Court Building, and construction of a new 14-story, 830,000-square-foot adjoining office tower. The office tower features one-story twin atriums and large, 50,000-square-foot floor plates.

At the heart of the winning proposal is City Park, a five-and-a-half-acre public park that will sit atop the new transit center and double as a "green roof" for the facility.

City Park's signature feature will be an elegant 1,200-foot office tower which will become a landmark addition to the San Francisco skyline and the tallest U.S. building west of Chicago.  Designed to include state-of-the-art security, safety, and many sustainability features, the planned 1.7 million-square-foot office tower will be developed, owned and operated by Hines.

Location
Two blocks from Lake Meritt in downtown Oakland

Architect
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

Net Rentable Area
Office building:
800,000 sq. ft.
(74,320 sq. m.)

Built in 1983, 1900 Alameda de las Pulgas is a four story 94,910 square-foot office building. 2000 Alameda de las Pulgas is a two story 158,467 square-foot office building.

Marin Tech is a beautifully landscaped office campus with superior highway access and visibility. Hines owns and manages the building. The campus is comprised of two 3-story buildings with abundant surface parking. Large floor plates allow for easy configuration to meet the space needs of large and small tenants alike while providing excellent opportunity for growing companies with increasing space needs. Amenities include:

• Dedicated on-site management,
engineering and 24-hour security
• On-site fitness center with adjacent showers and lockers
• On-site café offering indoor and
outdoor seating
• On-site ATM

Pleasanton Corporate Commons is a suburban office campus that consists of four Class A buildings totaling 604,750 gross square feet and 595,608 rentable square feet. Each building is five stories with surface parking provided at a ratio of 3.5 stalls per 1,000 rentable square feet. The lushly landscaped campus is organized in two clusters consisting of two buildings each. The clusters are connected by a landscaped pedestrian promenade, and the site features a significant public art installation. The project is adjacent to Stoneridge Mall, the premier regional mall in this San Francisco Bay Area suburb, providing excellent tenant amenities. Charles Schwab & Co. has leased all four buildings in the campus through 2012. Pleasanton Corporate Commons was completed in 2001.

Location
Located in the City of Palo Alto, adjacent to the Stanford University campus.

Net Rentable Area
Office building:
699,911 sq. ft.

Stoneridge Corporate Plaza is at the epicenter of the Tri-Valley, a San Francisco Bay Area submarket. Growing numbers of high-tech and other corporate giants are moving into this area because of its large educated workforce, the relative value of housing, good public schools, open spaces and recreation.

The five mid-rise buildings are situated on a beautifully landscaped two-acre park, featuring fountains, streams and gathering places for tenants and the public. The complex is adjacent to the Stoneridge Mall, main transportation corridors and a future BART station, enabling Stoneridge Corporate Plaza tenants to enjoy both the urban benefits of transit and an amenity-rich, pedestrian environment not often found in a suburban locale.

Watergate Office Towers is a 1.2 million-square-foot, five-building suburban office complex in Emeryville, California acquired by Hines in December 2006. The complex comprises four high-rise office buildings (Towers I, II, III and IV) and a free-standing Chevy’s restaurant. The development is located on a 22.4-acre tract alongside Interstate 80 on the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay, less than one mile from the eastern terminus of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

Address
Palo Alto, CA

Architect
Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum

Net Rentable Area
Office building:
75,875 sq. ft.

Since 1994, Hines has managed the suburban office complex for the law firm of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati located in Palo Alto, California, in the heart of the Silicon Valley. The campus has emerged from one 184,000-square-foot building in 1994 to five buildings totaling 496,000 square feet in 2001. Hines' management of the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati campus ranges from more traditional responsibilities such as tenant improvements, landscape design and maintenance, and property and facilities management to overseeing the firm's video conference and multimedia needs.