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100 Van Ness Avenue


Status Completed
Type Office (1974)
Residential (2015)
Location 100 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco

Roof 400 ft (122 m)
Technical details
Floor count 29
Design and construction
Architect(s) Albert F. Roller
Office building
Solomon Cordwell Buenz
Residential conversion
Structural engineer H.J. Brunnier


100 Van Ness is a skyscraper in San Francisco. Formerly an office building, it was converted into residential use. It is located in the Civic Center neighborhood near the San Francisco City Hall on Van Ness Avenue. The building, completed in 1974, stands 400 feet (122 m) and has 29 floors of former office space that housed the California State Automobile Association (CSAA).[3]

The building was sold by CSAA (AAA) to VNO Patson, LLC in 2008 and was leased back to CSAA until 2010, at which time they relocated to a new corporate headquarters campus near Walnut Creek. VNO Patson's interest in the building was foreclosed on by its lender and is now[when?] owned by Civic Center Commons Associates, which took title to the property in 2011. The current[when?] owner, Emerald Fund, converted the building into 418 rental apartments. It was completed by 2015.[2] The conversion was completed by the San Francisco office of Solomon Cordwell and Buenz and the interior design was completed by New York-based Irish Interior Designer Colum McCartan, founder and principal of McCARTAN.