Example Location Brief

Design showroom

A customer-facing Flex search combining display, office work, and operational support.

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

A design showroom combining customer presentations, office work, and light operational support rather than conventional warehouse use.

Market: San Francisco
Space: Industrial / warehouse / flex

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.

Showplace Square / Design District

San Francisco's clearest showroom, design-trade, and customer-facing Flex environment.

Why consider it

Reviewed fit for showroom, design trade, customer facing.

Things to weigh

Loading and production utility vary and should not be inferred from district identity.

What space here can feel like

650 Townsend

Technology, creative, and product teams that need adaptable team space rather than a formal tower environment.

888 Brannan

Technology, creative, product, design, and brand teams that want larger adapted floorplates with workplace character.

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Central Waterfront

Strong practical Flex context for prototyping, product development, office/production, and maker users.

Why consider it

Strong practical Flex context for prototyping, product development, office/production, and maker users.

Things to weigh

Power, loading, technical infrastructure, and use remain property-specific.

What space here can feel like

Production and fabrication buildings

Practical PDR buildings support fabrication, maker, prototyping, service, and small production uses.

Office-production hybrid environments

Adaptive operational buildings combine workspace, product development, assembly, and light production.

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Dogpatch

Adaptive reuse and Mission Bay adjacency support creative production and innovation-oriented Flex users.

Why consider it

Adaptive reuse and Mission Bay adjacency support creative production and innovation-oriented Flex users.

Things to weigh

Operational capability varies substantially by building.

What space here can feel like

Pier 70 Building 12

Creative, product, maker-oriented, and innovation teams that want an office environment with visible industrial character.

Pier 70 Building 101

Creative, design, production-adjacent, and innovation teams that want a visible connection to San Francisco industrial history.

Explore Dogpatch

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.

Your business will be different

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