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Penrose design unveiled for new Transbay Transit Center
The San Francisco’s new Transbay Transit Center will serve as The City’s largest transportation hub while reviving a design from the past.
(click to download)Ayerdi-Kaplan propelled a San Francisco infrastructure hub
Developing the Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco has been a nearly two-decade crusade for Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan, executive director of the Transbay Joint Powers Authority (TJPA). Hired in 1998 by Willie Brown, then the city’s mayor, she fostered consensus among disparate stakeholders to replace an aging bus terminal with a …
(click to download)The Transformation of Transbay
On January 13, 1939, a group of commuters held a wake onboard a ferry crossing San Francisco Bay. The next day, trains were to start running on the Bay Bridge from the East Bay to the newly constructed Transbay Transit Terminal, and ferry service would end. A reporter for the …
(click to download)The Grand Central Station of the West
The “Grand Central Station of the West,” the Transbay Transit Center (TTC) Project is a $4.5 billion transportation and housing project that will be the heart of a new transit-friendly neighborhood.
(click to download)S.F. gets 1st glimpse at new Transbay center’s skin
The panel dangling from a forklift is 6 by 6 feet, aluminum punched by angled perforations in a not-quite-abstract pattern. It wears three coats of white paint. Flecks of mica add a hint of sheen.
(click to download)Placing a bid on diversity: New supplier programs give LGBT-owned businesses a chance at major contracts
For years, minority- and woman-owned businesses have benefitted from the chance to compete for business at large corporations with sophisticated supplier diversity programs. Now, small businesses owned by gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender entrepreneurs are seeking the same opportunities.
(click to download)The Visionary Driving SF’s Transit Future
By Jonah Owen Lamb – The Examiner, March 30, 2014
(click to download)Dealmaker of the year: Maria Ayerdi-Kaplan
By J.K. Dineen – San Francisco Business Times, March 28, 2014
(click to download)Transbay Terminal Gulps Concrete
By J.K. Dineen – San Francisco Business Times, September 5, 2013
(click to download)Roger Penrose Puts Prints on San Francisco Transit Center
Wall Street Journal, July 11, 2013
(click to download)Transbay Land Sale Smashes Records, Funds Terminal
By Sachiko Yoshitsugo – San Francisco Business Times, June 28, 2013
(click to download)Transbay Developer Delivers Money to SF
By John Wildermuth – San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 2013
(click to download)Transbay Transit Center Work Progressing
By John King – San Francisco Chronicle, December 24, 2012
(click to download)Mammoth Tooth Found at Transbay Dig
By Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, September 13, 2012
(click to download)San Francisco Transbay Transit Center Project to Include Monumental Public Art
By Chérie Turner – Art in America, September 7, 2011
(click to download)Wrecking Ball about to hit Transbay Terminal
By Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, December 2, 2010
(click to download)Plan for new Transbay Terminal in, under budget
By John King, San Francisco Chronicle, April 22, 2010
(click to download)Transbay Terminal is focus of rail project
By Will Reisman, San Francisco Examiner, April 9, 2010
(click to download)High-speed rail to end at Transbay Terminal
By John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, April 9, 2010
(click to download)Transbay Terminal project gets stimulus funds
By John Coté, Michael Cabanatuan, San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2010
(click to download)$400M to go toward Transbay Transit Center train station
By John Upton, San Francisco Examiner, January 28, 2010
(click to download)Transbay project receives $171 million federal loan
By John Coté, San Francisco Chronicle, January 26, 2010
(click to download)S.F.’s Transbay center gets $171M loan
By Eric Young, San Francisco Business Times, January 26, 2010
(click to download)Ambitious Downtown Transit Project Is at Hand
By Brad Stone, New York Times, January 2, 2010
(click to download)Taller and Taller and Taller
By Marina Oblachova, Aeroflot Magazine, November 2007
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