Salesforce Tower

The Salesforce Tower may have replied to an online petition launched by Lord of the Rings fans in epic fashion.

Soaking in views of the Bay Area from the peak of San Francisco’s tallest building will soon be available to the public — for free.

The Salesforce Tower in San Francisco opened for business back in January, but the skyline-altering skyscraper was christened with an official grand opening ceremony Tuesday morning.

The Salesforce Tower in San Francisco opened for business back in January, but the skyline-altering skyscraper was christened with an official grand opening ceremony Tuesday morning.

Hundreds of snapshots put together to showcase the construction of the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco. (Video credit: Alex Orellana)

In late April, artist Jim Campbell sat in a corner of Blooms Saloon on Potrero Hill, hovering over his laptop with a clear sightline of the 1,070-foot Salesforce Tower jutting above the distant San Francisco skyline.

The new light installation by artist Jim Campbell atop the Salesforce Tower will turn on permanently starting Tuesday night.

Months of construction boiled down to a few seconds.

The 1.4 million square-foot Salesforce Tower is now the tallest structure in San Francisco and the second-tallest building west of the Mississippi River, following L.A.’s Wilshire Grand, COMMERCIALCafé reports.

San Francisco’s skyline has continuously evolved over the years, and thanks to a new 61-story building, the city’s horizon has once again been altered forever. Video courtesy of COMMERCIALCafé.

The inflatable chicken that bears an uncanny resemblance to President Donald Trump, and shows up at protests around the country, was spotted in San Francisco over the weekend.

At its current rate, San Francisco’s troubled Millennium Tower could tilt another 10 inches toward the Salesforce Tower in the next two years, lawyers for the homeowners warned in a legal filing urging a speedy trial over the sinking building.

The troubled Millennium Tower in San Francisco has tilted two and half more inches in just the first half of this year, according to new monitoring data reviewed by NBC Bay Area.

A new geotechnical consultant hired by Millennium backs the developer’s claim that Transbay terminal’s construction for the recent sinking of the Millennium Tower but acknowledges other nearby project could be contributing to the problem, according to a report that the city disclosed Friday.

Crews began to bore the first of three test holes, each more than 200 feet deep, outside the Millennium Tower on Monday to better assess soil conditions in the areas where the building is sinking and tilting along Mission and Fremont streets. Mark Matthews reports.