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Construction Starts on $1.6B Transit Center

SAN FRANCISCO-Scheduled to open in 2017, this structure will connect the city and Bay Area, and will be the first new high-speed rail station in the United States.

By Robert Carr | Updated on August 16, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO-Construction has begun on the $1.6 billion first phase of the new Transbay Transit Center and Park in the Downtown. The complex, designed by architect Pelli Clarke Pelli, will connect the city and the Bay Area via 11 public transit systems, as well as serve at the first US high-speed rail station as part of the California High Speed Rail line.

Fred Clarke, senior principal at the firm, said the project will also spur development in the blocks surrounding the site at First and Mission streets. “We want this to be a great transit center, one by which the city is perceived, but it must also be a great neighbor,” he said in a statement.

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