2175 Market Street

San Francisco, CA

Owner - Forest City
Architect - Van Meter Williams Pollack

Murphy Burr Curry provided the structural design for this new 85-unit, six story, 80,000 square foot, mixed-use complex.  A post-tensioned concrete podium structure, containing ground level retail and a subterranean parking garage, provides the support for two wood framed residential structures that surround a common courtyard. 

Located in a prominent position along San Francisco’s Market Street, the complex sits directly adjacent to the Muni Metro subway tunnel. Special consideration was taken to avoid imparting any additional load onto the decades old subway structure.  Murphy Burr Curry developed a unique foundation isolation system, where a portion of the building along Market Street is supported on piers and the entirety of the structure within the subway zone of influence is wrapped in structural foam.