Mayor Edwin M. Lee and District Six Supervisor Jane Kim announced The Market, a new food market operator, to locate on the ground floor of 1355 Market Street known as Market Square in the Central Market neighborhood. The Market signed a 30-year lease with Shorenstein Properties and will include a 22,000 square foot food emporium that will provide a diverse range of food products and offerings to Central Market’s growing number of businesses and residents. The Market will also create more than 200 job opportunities for local residents. 

"The Market is an innovative store that will provide unique food choices to a growing neighborhood, while offering opportunities to entrepreneurs to sell their products," said Mayor Lee. "The Market will complement the innovative companies, new small business employers, art organizations and residential development in the neighborhood and bring more than 200 jobs into the community, and I am thrilled to welcome The Market to Central Market."

"The Market is an exciting addition to Central Market, offering local San Francisco vendors an opportunity to showcase and sell local food products," said Supervisor Kim. "District Six is an incubator for small businesses from local makers to tech start-ups. We look forward to working with The Market to connect them to the community to create local jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities."

Food entrepreneurs and owners of The Market, Bruce Slesinger and Tom Collom, will provide high-quality food with a focus on natural and specialty foods and feature "shops within a shop," partnering with local purveyors and micro entrepreneurs to provide a selection of prepared foods, produce, sandwiches, and beverages. It will also include service counters for the deli, fresh meat and fish. The Market will work with the City’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) as well as local job-training organizations to hire more than 200 employees upon its opening next year.

"The Market will redefine the way we shop for food and create a unique destination in the newly-revitalized Central Market neighborhood," said Collom. "We are thrilled to bring this concept into the area where people will have the opportunity to select from a range of food offerings. The Market is the next generation of the food store for a new generation."

Slesinger and Collom currently own and operate Small Foods located at 522 2nd Street where its food emporium concept has created a unique food experience. Small Foods first location is in a 2,500 square foot early 1900’s brick warehouse building in the South End Historic district of San Francisco. 

The Market will provide grab & go foods, a local coffee roastery and café, a creamery, on-site baking by artisan bakers, an oyster and sushi bar, a wine and tapas bar, a fire roasted pizza bar, an extreme salad bar, and even a beauty bar. The 30-year lease of the space is a partnership with Shorenstein, the company that owns and operates 1355 Market Street. Construction of the ‘The Market’ is scheduled for completion in October 2014.

About Market Square

1355 Market known as Market Square is a 1.1 million square foot of office and retail complex spanning an entire city block in the heart of San Francisco’s Central Market neighborhood. Since acquiring the two-building property, formerly known as the Western Furniture and Merchandise Mart, for its ninth investment fund in March 2011, Shorenstein Properties has invested significant capital to position Market Square as a high quality corporate location appealing to both creative and professional tenants. The first building to be redeveloped, 1355 Market, is almost fully leased and is the headquarters of Twitter, One Kings Lane and Yammer. A 125-seat Bon Marche restaurant will open later this year. Shorenstein is in the process of redeveloping the second building, 1 Tenth , which when completed will have a new façade and modernized building systems and offer 338,000 square foot of Class A office space.

About The Market

Slesinger and Collom are also founders of Bruce and Tom (BAT) Architects and will lead the creative effort and store branding for The Market. Working together for over 20 years, they have created retail branding and architectural image development for retail companies Worldwide. Slesinger and Collom have also identified a successful local retail food operator with over 20 years of experience including expertise in the culinary arts to be on the Executive Management Team and act as General Manager for The Market.