Moscone Center
Convention center
Moscone Center (convention center, run by the City Administrator): $372.4M paid to contractors for work here, $287.7M budgeted for its department in FY2025, 1,154 employees on the payroll, 1 contract, 3 capital projects, 6 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. The Moscone Center's record centers on building and expanding it. A 1991 environmental report notes the 1978 review analyzed the George R. Moscone Convention Center, which "was opened on December 10, 1981," and a 1992 report describes voters approving the underground expansion of exhibit and meeting space. A 1988 Board of Supervisors journal logs ordinances financing the expansion, and 2001 Finance Committee minutes record a design agreement with Gensler amended to a total not exceeding $15,026,326, with floor area growing from 570,000 to 780,000 square feet. City permit data lists 145 permits totaling about $559 million declared, including a 2015 renovation declared at $266,061,486. It falls under the City Administrator, whose FY2025 budget line is $288M. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.
Wikimedia Commons · Guilhem Vellut · CC BY 2.0The Moscone Center's record centers on building and expanding it. A 1991 environmental report notes the 1978 review analyzed the George R. Moscone Convention Center, which "was opened on December 10, 1981," and a 1992 report describes voters approving the underground expansion of exhibit and meeting space. A 1988 Board of Supervisors journal logs ordinances financing the expansion, and 2001 Finance Committee minutes record a design agreement with Gensler amended to a total not exceeding $15,026,326, with floor area growing from 570,000 to 780,000 square feet. City permit data lists 145 permits totaling about $559 million declared, including a 2015 renovation declared at $266,061,486. It falls under the City Administrator, whose FY2025 budget line is $288M.
747 Howard St · City-owned · 2,337,073 sq ft · 9 buildings on site · parcel 3724035 · District 6 · City Facilities registry
+ 2 more contractors
What the City actually paid, across 6 contractors. Contractors big enough to have their own page are linked; the rest are named only.
Every line opens that contract’s own page, with its spend curve and its subcontractors. Agreed amounts are ceilings, not spending.
Run by the City Administrator, whose whole-department budget is $287.7M across 1,154 staff (FY2025) — citywide, not this place’s own. The City does not publish a running cost per building.
The response volume for the Yerba Buena environmental review, answering comments that the document should name Mayor Moscone's select committee and record that voters approved the centre's expansion under Proposition CB-2.
Yerba Buena Center : subsequent environmental impact report : summary of comments and responses · 1992 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansThe 1991 subsequent environmental review, updating the 1978 Yerba Buena analysis to cover the convention centre expansion and everything else built since 1982.
Yerba Buena Center : draft subsequent environmental impact report · 1991 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansA 2004 environmental review of a 15- or 25-storey mixed-use tower at One Hawthorne Street, in the blocks behind the convention centre.
Final mitigated negative declaration : [case no. 2004.0852E : One Hawthorne Street : demolition and construction of a 15- or 25-story residential mixed-use building] · 2004 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansThe Controller's comprehensive annual financial report, the city's audited accounts — including the $100 million renewable energy revenue bond approved by voters in 2001.
Comprehensive annual financial report · 1998 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
2 procedural records — minutes, agendas, calendars — not listed.
