Posted on 10.31.19
How San Francisco's Salesforce Transit Center, dubbed the 'Grand Central of the West', went from the 'safest building in the world' to a $2.2billion construction debacle six weeks after it opened when workers found cracked steel beams
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk, October 29, 2019
By: Megan Sheets
When the Salesforce Transit Center and Park opened last fall, the $2.2billion architectural marvel promised to revolutionize commuting in the Bay Area as the cornerstone of an expanded and improved network of trains, buses and streetcars.
Six weeks after a triumphant ribbon-cutting at the so-called ‘Grand Central of the West’, that promise was upended when workers uncovered a pair of substantial cracks in the building’s beams. Read more.
