425 Market Street is an
office skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Modern sources currently define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition. Skyscrapers are very tall high-ris ...
located on the corner of
Market and Fremont Streets in the
financial district of
San Francisco,
California. The , 38
floor
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office tower was completed in 1973. It was built by the
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company as their "Pacific Coast Headquarters" and was called "1 Metropolitan Plaza". It was built as a modern replacement for their older headquarters on Nob Hill at 600
Stockton Street
Stockton Street is a north-south street in San Francisco. It begins at Market Street passing Union Square, a major shopping district in the city. It then runs underground for about two and a half blocks in the Stockton Street Tunnel (lending its ...
(now remodeled as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel). It was among the first buildings in San Francisco to have a high-speed transport system (a glorified
dumb waiter
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) for computer data cards, files and inner-office mail, at the time a state-of-the-art system.
Its largest tenant today is
law firm
A law firm is a business entity formed by one or more lawyers to engage in the practice of law. The primary service rendered by a law firm is to advise clients (individuals or corporations) about their legal rights and responsibilities, and to r ...
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP (also known as MoFo) is an American multinational law firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, with 17 offices located throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. The firm has over 1,000 lawyers who advise cli ...
. The building is partially owned by the
Government Pension Fund of Norway, who according to their 2015 report
owns 47.5%.
See also
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San Francisco's tallest buildings
References
External links
425 Market Street official website425 Market Street Tenant Handbook
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Skyscraper office buildings in San Francisco
Market Street (San Francisco)
Office buildings completed in 1973
Financial District, San Francisco
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill buildings
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold certified buildings