San Francisco
The California Academy of Sciences will lease 204,000 sf south of Market Street in San Francisco as a temporary home while eleven of the organization’s twelve buildings in Golden Gate Park are razed and a new 400,000-sf facility is built. The temporary location will open to the public in January 2004. The 204,000-sf facility will include a 32,000-sf lower level garage that will accommodate tanks and equipment for the ground-floor aquarium.