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 If you're interested in exploring more of the city's green spaces, he also offers a guide to his "Top 10" landmarked trees in San Francisco.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. Mike Sullivan's self-guided walking tour of Salesforce Park is available for free on his website. "So eventually, the trees will slow their growth down, almost like a bonsai." "There are only three to four feet of dirt under this whole garden," he said.
In fact, he explained, the conditions of the garden will make it difficult for the trees to achieve the kind of growth they would in the wild. Sullivan disagrees: "I don't think the closure had much of an impact," he explained, noting that most visitors aren't trampling on the plants anyway. Ashley Langworthy, western region director for Biederman Redevelopment Ventures, even described the closure as "a blessing" for the park's plants and trees.
During the Transit Center's unexpected nine-month closure for repairs, officials touted one positive impact: the garden was allowed to grow without any human interference.
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