Example Location Brief

Creative company with a Marin and SF workforce

A creative Office search balancing character, northern access, parking, and neighborhood scale.

This example shows how Rofo evaluates locations for a representative business profile. Your Best Fits will depend on your own business, team, access needs, and priorities.

Example business

The search behind this Brief

An architecture and creative-services company with employees in San Francisco and Marin. It values a distinctive environment, northern access, and practical parking more than regional transit.

Market: San Francisco
Space: Office

Best-Fit locations

Locations worth investigating

These locations are peers to investigate, not a numbered ranking. Each solves a different part of the example search.

Marina District

Good selective fit for smaller professional and client-facing users that value northern San Francisco geography and neighborhood visibility.

Why consider it

The Marina District is a northern San Francisco local commercial district for retail, wellness, medical, small office, and client-facing service users that want neighborhood visibility and affluent customer access rather than downtown office density.
GOOD employee access from San Francisco via sf-gateway:central-street-network.
GOOD employee access from Marin / North Bay via sf-gateway:golden-gate-bridge.

What space here can feel like

1839 Lombard St

A neighborhood-scale commercial building on the Marina's Lombard Street edge.

Marina neighborhood commercial context

Northern neighborhood blocks connect smaller offices and services to the distinct Chestnut and Union Street retail corridors.

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Presidio

Good selective fit for organizations and creative office users that value a campus-like historic setting, northern San Francisco access, and a quieter alternative to downtown.

Why consider it

The Presidio is a distinctive campus-like San Francisco commercial setting with historic buildings, open-space identity, creative office character, and northern-city access, useful for organizations that want a quieter alternative to downtown or neighborhood retail corridors.
GOOD employee access from San Francisco via sf-gateway:central-street-network.
STRONG employee access from Marin / North Bay via sf-gateway:golden-gate-bridge.

Things to weigh

Current suitable Office inventory and building-level availability remain unverified.

What space here can feel like

Historic campus workplaces

Reused historic buildings sit within a landscaped campus rather than a conventional street-grid office district.

Letterman-area office campus context

Larger campus-style office settings illustrate a quieter alternative to downtown and neighborhood commercial blocks.

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Jackson Square

Strong fit for smaller office users that want a polished, walkable, downtown-adjacent setting with more character than a tower core.

Why consider it

Architecture / design is supported by this district's reviewed business-environment pattern.
Business type: design creative

Things to weigh

Weak access for the San Francisco employee cohort.

What space here can feel like

Transamerica Pyramid Center

Executive, investment, legal, finance, and professional-service firms that value a recognizable north-downtown address.

212 Sutter St

Boutique finance, legal, advisory, consulting, and professional-service firms that want a central downtown address.

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Representative examples illustrate each location's commercial character and may not be currently available. This Brief evaluates location fit, not live availability, rents, permitted use, or leasing terms.

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