• The new Salesforce Transit Centre, located in downtown San Francisco, features several large-scale public art projects by notable artists including Jenny Holzer, Ned Kahn, Julie Chang and James Carpenter. One piece by Jim Campbell is thought to be the tallest piece of public art in the world.

• San Francisco’s new Central Subway features three new subway stations connecting the Moscone Convention Centre to Chinatown. Each station features new site-specific public art by local and national artists.

• The Treasure Island development includes 300 acres of expansive open space and parkland which will feature a diversity of public art projects and programs by local, national and internationally renowned artists. The budget for public art allocates $50 million over 20 years.

• The dissolution in 2012 of California’s Redevelopment Agency will lead to the transfer of a number of cultural assets to the City, including Hunters Point Shipyard Trust for the Arts, 706 Mission St., the Yerba Buena Centre for Arts, the Children’s Creativity Museum and other facilities. Additionally, public art which was formerly on Redevelopment property is being transferred to the City’s Civic Art Collection.

• Pier 70 is a 69 acre property owned by the Port of San Francisco on the City’s Eastern Waterfront. The city’s innovative approach to revitalising the Waterfront Site has a strong focus on the community, culture and activities that enliven the spaces. Including a cutting-edge waterfront arts facility, the project preserves the existing arts community located on the site. The developer, Forest City, and Port of San Francisco intend to partner with a local non-profit arts organisation, such as Community Arts Stabilization Trust, to build, own, and operate the arts facility.

• 5M is an arts and community oriented development at four acres in downtown San Francisco. In addition to new housing and commercial construction, the project includes three historic buildings, including the Dempster Printing Building on Minna Street, to be operated by the Community Arts Stabilisation Trust, providing below-market rate space to arts non-profits and youth-centred arts programming. 5M offers nearly 50,000 square feet of privately funded, but publicly accessible open space, where artists, community, business, and nonprofit sectors can intersect, connect and enjoy.

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