San Francisco’s Transbay Terminal Closes Permanently

San Francisco’s Transbay Terminal, the site of countless San Francisco arrivals and departures since 1939, will close permanently at midnight tonight (August 6th), to be replaced for the next several years by a nearby temporary terminal. The temporary terminal, at Howard and Main streets, will be in use until officials can finish building the new $4.2 billion Transbay Transit Center at First and Mission streets in 2017. The temporary terminal will serve several bus lines, including AC Transit, Muni, Greyhound, WestCAT Lynx, Greyhound, SamTrans and Golden Gate Transit. The transit center project is part of a wider redevelopment proposal surrounding the new transportation terminal, bounded roughly by Mission, Main, Folsom and Second streets. Plans call for nearly 2,600 new homes, 3 million square feet of new office and commercial space and 100,000 square feet of retail. One of the most prominent elements of the redevelopment involves a possible 1,000-foot office high rise built by Hines Group next to the transit terminal

Transbay Terminal closes today [San Francisco Business Times]