The Commonwealth Club has been in San Francisco for nearly 110 years, but have just now bought their own building. The civic organization has purchased 110 the Embarcadero for $5.5 million, and plans to rehab the space to include multiple auditoriums and meeting spaces, club offices, reception spaces, a members café and roof deck and sky garden. An additional $5.5 million to $6 million would be spent on refurbishing the building. The club, which was founded in 1903 and hosts debates and lectures, recently has been located within a shared building at 595 Market. If you remember, 110 Embarcadero was once a Hines proposal for a new "hanging garden" Pelli Clarke Pelli 123-foot tall office building, but that got shot down by preservationists who said the former home of Local 38-79 of the International Longshoremen's Association was historic. [SF Business Times/previously on Curbed SF]
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