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101 California Street is a 48-story office skyscraper completed in 1982 in the Financial District of San Francisco, California. The 183 m (600 ft) tower, providing 1,250,000 sq ft (116,000 m2) of office space, is bounded by California, Davis, Front, and Pine Streets near Market Street.




History


Singapore sovereign wealth fund bought 92% of the building from Nippon Life Insurance Company in 2012 for US$910 million. Hines Interests Limited Partnership has a partial stake in the building.




Description


The faceted cylindrical tower features a seven-story, glass-enclosed lobby and a granite plaza with flower beds and a fountain. During the holiday season, a platform with many oversized Christmas ornaments is added to the plaza. The building's entrance is very similar to that of 101 Park Avenue in New York City, and was also designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee in 1982.
101 California is equipped with a total of thirty-two elevators, with twenty-two serving the tower; two serving floors 45 through 48; four serving the triangular annex building; two serving the garage; and two for freight. The eight stairwells throughout the building are intended for emergency use only.




1993 shooting


The building is the site of what has become known as the 101 California Street shootings, a mass murder which occurred there in 1993. On July 1, Gian Luigi Ferri, a disgruntled client of the law firm Pettit & Martin, entered their offices on the 34th floor and killed eight people and wounded six before killing himself. The event was a catalyst in the passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a drive initiated by California Senator Dianne Feinstein to ban "assault weapons". A terraced garden in the plaza in front of the building is now dedicated to the victims.




Notable tenants


Booz & Company
CBRE Group
Beazley
Susquehanna International Group
Merrill Lynch
Venable LLP
Cooley LLP
Deutsche Bank
Morgan Stanley
Winston & Strawn
The Blackstone Group
Business Wire
Invesco
Jefferies Group
Grant Thornton LLP
Chime




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See also



San Francisco's tallest buildings




References






Further reading


Woodbridge, Sally B. (1992). San Francisco Architecture (Second ed.). San Francisco: Chronicle Books. pp. 35. ISBN 0-87701-897-9.




External links


101 California property website
101 California Archived 2009-11-30 at the Wayback Machine at Hines Interests Limited Partnership

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