181 Fremont Street
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181 Fremont Street is a proposed skyscraper
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...

 for the South of Market District of San Francisco, California
California
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. The building, designed by Heller Manus Architects
Heller Manus Architects
Heller Manus Architects is a San Francisco, California-based architecture firm providing architectural and urban design for public and private sector clients. It was formed in 1984 by Jeffrey Heller, FAIA, president of the firm and member of the Green growth leaders Council, and Clark Manus, FAIA,...

, will be located adjacent to the Transbay Terminal
San Francisco Transbay Terminal
San Francisco Transbay Transit Terminal, or simply Transbay Terminal, was a transportation complex in San Francisco, California, USA, located roughly in the center of the rectangle bounded north–south by Mission Street and Howard Street, and east–west by Beale Street and 2nd Street...

 and 199 Fremont Street
199 Fremont Street
199 Fremont Street is a class-A office skyscraper in South of Market district of San Francisco, California. The , 27-storey tower was designed by KMD Architects , and completed in 2000....

 projects.

The slender mixed-use tower, developed by SKS Investments, is set to rise 213.5 m (700.5 ft) with 54 floors of offices and residential condominiums. The tower will contain 420300 sq ft (39,047.1 m²) of office space and 80 condominiums. 181 Fremont will join several other buildings designed to catalyze the newly proposed San Francisco Transbay development
San Francisco Transbay development
The San Francisco Transbay development plan consists of three supertall skyscrapers and ten other skyscrapers and highrises proposed in San Francisco. The towers are proposed to fund the replacement of the San Francisco Transbay Terminal in the South of Market neighborhood near the Financial...

 area.

Currently, the project plan exceeds the 350 foot (106 m) local height limit by a wide margin. However, on May 1, 2008, the city of San Francisco released a zoning plan that allowed the tower to rise as high as 700 feet (213 m),twice as high as the current height restriction.

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