SF New Developments

Developer returns with $230M tower
by J.K. Dineen

In the late 1960s, Alvin Dworman was a force on Cathedral Hill, a neighborhood-changing developer who built Cathedral Hill Tower, Cathedral Hill Plaza and assembled the site for the area’s defining landmark, the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, built in 1971.

Now 40 years later Dworman’s Adco Group is again looking to put a defining stamp on the neighborhood. The developer is proposing a $230 million, 407-foot elliptical condominium tower at the hill’s apex, a ghostly white glass structure that would be visible from much of the city.

Adco has hired Skidmore Owings & Merrill to design the 38-story building, which SOM design partner Craig Hartman described as a light and luminous “bell tower marking the presence of the cathedral.” The new tower would be built at 1481 Post St., adjacent to Cathedral Hill Plaza, a 169-unit rental property.

The project would also include 6,000 square feet of retail and a 5,000-square-foot cultural space, which the developer envisions as a cultural and educational space modeled after the 92nd Street Y in New York.

“We’ve come full circle back to where we started,” said Linda Corso, general manager of Cathedral Hill Plaza.

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