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Salesforce Transit Center draws together local, regional, and national transit networks into a soaring, light-filled new building. What are the main ideas and inspirations influencing the design of the building?

While so many recent corporate developments in the Bay Area have been located in the suburbs, drawing workers out from the city neighborhoods where they prefer to live, Salesforce invests in the city, and points the way to a taller, denser, and sustainable future. It also demonstrates how a combination of public development and private enterprise can contribute positively to a dense central downtown district. Salesforce Transit Center shows the ways large-scale infrastructure can be humanized, making it open, friendly, supportive of the public realm, and welcoming to a wide range of users. On its roof is a 5.4-acre public park, lushly landscaped and programmed with performance spaces, gathering spaces, and places for quiet repose. It replaces the Transbay Bus Terminal, an outmoded bus station that linked to a large dedicated ramp that led to the Bay Bridge and the cities of Oakland and Berkeley. Salesforce Transit Center draws together eleven transit networks from the Bay Area, State of California, and the nation. The Transit Center and adjacent Salesforce Tower - the city’s tallest building - illustrate how dense, downtown, transit-based development can provide a sustainable and livable alternative to low-rise, low-density, suburban campuses.

Salesforce Transit Center is a new paradigm for urban design in the United States. Please provide an overview of the project.