Steph Curry may be nearing the twilight of his playing career, but his plans to build a 25,000 square-foot headquarters for his businesses in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood show the four-time NBA champion is not going anywhere.
On Thursday, Curry’s offcourt collective, 30 Ink, made public details and renderings of the ground-up office building they are building at 600 20th St. The company plans to raze the 9,200-square-foot, two-story masonry and concrete building that currently occupies the site and replace it with with a five-story structure that will include a ground-floor community and event space.
Thirty Ink’s offices, which include Curry’s eight businesses and 13 entities, are currently located on Howard Street in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. The company focuses on endeavors spanning across athlete management, brand, lifestyle, impact, media, philanthropy and technology. The company’s mantra is “elevate the under.” The various companies have 60 employees.
Tiffany Williams, chief operating officer for 30 Ink, said the company has previously had offices in Oakland and San Mateo but was attracted to Dogpatch for its historic character, and proximity to Chase Center and other businesses that collaborate with Curry’s organization. The location, across the street from the historic Bethlehem Steel building now home to luxury home furniture store Restoration Hardware, is on a block bounded by 20th Street between Illinois and Third streets.
The news that 30 Ink had bought the building was first reported by the Chronicle in May of last year.
“This is a pivotal step for 30 Ink in terms of our evolution — it cements our commitment to be in the Bay Area and San Francisco specifically,” Williams told the Chronicle. “Stephen’s career is winding down — he has more years behind him than ahead of him — and we are saying that work doesn’t stop. We are going to be here and continue working and growing and elevating the under.”
Williams said future announcements will flesh out plans for the ground floor.
“We want to create a space that the public feels like is theirs as well. There will be several floors that will be run-of-the-mill office space but we want to create space on that ground level that is inviting to the community, where they can come in and feel that 30 experience.”
The project was approved last April. Construction will take about 18 months once the building permits are obtained. Williams called the current structure, which will be demolished, “a black slate with four walls and in some cases maybe not even that.” San Francisco architecture firm OTJ is doing the design.
“We wanted something that we can build up and make our own from start to finish,” Williams said.
The announcement comes as San Francisco has struggled with office vacancy and commercial real estate development has mostly stopped since the pandemic. Williams said that 30 Ink’s willingness to construct a new headquarters shows that “we are not afraid to do work and build in San Francisco.”
“We hope that attracts more businesses to seek out opportunities in the city,” she said.
According to documents on file with the department, the new building will span about 25,000 square feet and feature 2,680 square feet of lab space, close to 9,000 square feet of office space, roughly 3,300 square feet for arts activities and a single, three-bedroom unit on the fifth floor will be used for out-of-town business partners. A roof deck and green roof space are also part of the plan.
