On a recent afternoon, young professionals in microclimate business-casual ambled through the park. Millennium Tower, a ten-year-old, fifty-eight-story luxury development near the park’s eastern tip, tilts to one side, because it is sinking. The buildings that surround it are a kaleidoscope of black and aqua glass. Its lush, verdant lawns, deliberately overgrown, are two googly eyes short of a Jim Henson character. It is a linear park-longer than it is wide-and is elevated about seventy feet above the sidewalk. It contains a prehistoric garden of cycads, ferns, and Wollemi pines plots dedicated to the plants of Chile, South Africa, and Australia and a small wetland hydrated with gray water. It is a lush, five-and-a-half-acre rooftop arcadia of rolling meadows and meticulously landscaped, climatically harmonious, drought-tolerant flora. Salesforce Park, in downtown San Francisco, sits atop the Salesforce Transit Center, above Salesforce Plaza, in the shadow of Salesforce Tower. Photograph by Karl Mondon / The Mercury News / Getty
Salesforce Park, a lush rooftop arcadia of rolling meadows, quietly reopened this past July, after being shuttered upon the discovery of cracks in structural steel beams.
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