The JPMorgan Chase Building is an office building in

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, 560-584

Mission Street Mission Street is a north-south arterial thoroughfare in Daly City and San Francisco, California that runs from Daly City's southern border to San Francisco's northeast waterfront. The street and San Francisco's Mission District through which it r ...

, on the border between

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and the

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. Designed by architect

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, the building stands and has about of office space. It also has two levels of underground parking and a large plaza. About of the building is leased to the major tenant

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. This is one of many new highrise projects completed or under construction on Mission Street since 2000.

Construction and design

''SF Curbed'' describes the building, designed by

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, as a "circa-2002, 31-story minimalist tower wrapped in black steel."Pelli, architect of Salesforce Tower and Transbay Transit Center, dies at 92"
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, Abigail Clukey (July 20, 2019) Pelli took visual inspiration from the

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.Francisco's Best Skyscrapers (And One Fogscraper)"
, ''

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'', Andrew Dalton (June 11, 2014) Says ''

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'', the plaza at 560 Mission Street as "outdoor slip of manicured heaven: terraces of grass, groves of bamboo, potted maples in between. Plus plenty of tables and a circular metal sculpture turning gently above a thin sheet of water," saying it has " only bamboo, Japanese maple and grass growing, along with a granite-lined pool and granite and stainless-steel sculpture."buildings and manicured spaces -- a corner of the city has become a lot more comfortable"
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'', John King (November 24, 2004)

Plaza

The building's public space has been noted in the press, called one of the "best privately owned open places" in the city by ''Curbed.''best privately owned public open spaces in SF"
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'', Breanna Reeves (February 19, 2020) 560 Mission Street Plaza

The Privately Owned Public Open Space at the foot of the tower consists of a parklet containing a water feature with seating, a bamboo grove and the kinetic sculpture ''Annular Eclipse'' by

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. Landscape design for the parklet was done by Christian Lemon at the firm Hart Howerton. __NOTOC__

Tenants

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* Arup

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Construction and design

Plaza

Tenants

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