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One Montgomery Tower
Post Montgomery Center logo.jpg
Pacific Telesis Center.jpg
Former names Pacific Telesis Tower
Pacific Telesis Center
Alternative names Montgomery Tower
Post Montgomery Center
Montgomery Center
General information
Type Commercial offices
Location 120 Kearny Street
San Francisco, California
Coordinates 37°47′21″N 122°24′12″W / 37.7891°N 122.4033°W / 37.7891; -122.4033
Completed 1982 (1982)
Management Cushman & Wakefield
Height
Roof 500 ft (150 m)
Technical details
Floor count 38
Floor area 1,000,000 sq ft (93,000 m2)
Lifts/elevators 21
Design and construction
Architect Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

One Montgomery Tower (also known as Montgomery Tower and formerly Pacific Telesis Tower), part of the Post Montgomery Center complex, is an office skyscraper located at the northeast corner of Post and Kearny Streets in the financial district of San Francisco, California. The 500-foot (150-meter), 38-story tower was completed in 1982, and is connected to the Crocker Galleria mall. It houses around 2,500 office workers (as of 2019).

Despite the "One Montgomery" branding, the building's main entrance is on 120 Kearny Street, rather than on Montgomery Street. The building's structural steel columns are covered by a facade consisting of red granite and square tempered glass windows with aluminum frames, with small squares marking the intersections of each block of four windows (except for the first two floors, which use black granite and steel) .

One Montgomery Tower - San Francisco - April 2017 (6896)
One Montgomery Tower seen from the ground level (intersection of Kearny and Post) in 2017

The construction of the tower and Crocker Galleria in 1982 also involved the tearing down of the top ten floors of the adjacent Crocker Bank building on 1 Montgomery Street, with its new roof being converted into a privately-owned public open space (POPOS).

Notable tenants

  • Since 2017, the Wikimedia Foundation has been headquartered on the sixteenth floor.
  • a consulate general of the Netherlands
  • the San Francisco office of the law firm Shook, Hardy, & Bacon
  • Stitch Fix
  • One of the first cashierless Amazon Go stores opened on the ground floor of One Montgomery Tower in winter 2018/19.

See also

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