HAUS CAREERS VOL I: FIFTH SPACE.
For our very first HAUS CAREERS event, we welcomed FIFTH SPACE: the team behind Power Station, a 29-acre waterfront development featuring 5.4 million square feet of residential, office, life science, and retail space, all interspersed with 7 acres of parks. The engaging conversation and panel were led by Max Goeggel ’25 — Founder of HAUS and an Associate at FIFTH SPACE, a San Francisco-based real estate development firm.
Thank you to Enrique Landa and the whole Dogpatch Power Station team for the tour of their amazing development site. We are so excited about your vision and the fact that you’re making it happen!
#dogpatch
#dogpatchpowerstation
POWER IN COMMUNITY tells a story about the legacy of workers who shaped the site and in turn, shaped San Francisco. With this site-specific work I wanted to communicate that the new building is a home for today’s workers, but it’s also been shaped by the legacy of workers who came before them. The sculpture is composed of gears, pulleys, and wheels salvaged directly from the decommissioned Power Station. Accompanied by designed metal signage and archival images of industrial workers who worked here over the last century.
Sculpturally, I wanted the worn wheels, gears, and pulleys to be visual anchors for storytelling because each repurposed object evokes the actual hands and tradespeople that shaped the city from the ground up.
POWER IN COMMUNITY
Steel, Aluminum, Wood, Found steel wheels and gears, Paint, Archival photos
18’ x 6’ 8” x 4”
2025
#sitespecific #publicart #sf #PotreroPowerStation #assemblage
Happy Black History Month!
Here’s an exclusive look inside The Sophie Maxwell Building at Power Station, in part given by Sophie Maxwell herself, along with Rashaida Nirobe, Founder of Sista’s with Tools; Tina Chang, Managing Director of Development at FIFTH SPACE; and Cheyenne Concepcion, the building’s artist and interior designer!
Remember, tonight is the night of the San Francisco Black History Month Closing Ceremony at City Hall. We look forward to seeing you all at 5:30!
Dogpatch enthusiasts check out this 2010 video of Crane Cove. Note and Seafood was@still operating and Building 49 looks weathered. A symbol of the work @sf_port did to make Crane Cove a gem of a public space.
#dogpatch #cranecovepark #sanfrancisco
The Mission Bay Elementary School will open for the 2026-2027 school year. Pre-k, T-K and Kindergarten! Eventually a Pre-K through 5th grade! A promise from the 1998 Mission Bay Redevelopment Plan! It’s here! Thank you @mariasu2018 and your amazing team at SFUSD, our elected and former elected leaders Assemblymember @matthaneysf BoE Commissioner Hydra Mendoza McDonnell (who took the lead at the Board of Education) & so many others and the most awesome community steering committee! We are almost there! The school is part of the Webster School Attendance Area. Families, check it out and apply today! #sfusd #elementaryschool #missionbay #eastcut #southbeach #dogpatch #potrerohill #community #families https://www.sfusd.edu/schools/enroll
CREATING ‘FUTURE HEIRLOOMS’ ⛓️
What stuck out to me when first meeting Sophie Maxwell was that the objects and clothing she adorns herself with speaks before she does. She’s an elegant, soft yet extremely smart and powerful woman who chooses her words carefully. It felt like her personal style became like a shield maybe or an amulet. This led me to think about heirlooms and how women pass on memories and lessons from one generation to the next through our adorning objects. To properly create this work, Sophie let us walk through her jewelry box 🤎
FUTURE HEIRLOOMS connects Sophie’s legacy to both her family’s heritage and to future generations who might live in the building. It tells a story in a form of communication unique to her. I wanted to capture this soft strength, this subtle form of communication.
Graceful arcs in repeating motifs of 3 honor the 3 generations of community stewardship and leadership Sophie’s family has brought to the neighborhood.
With this sculpture, I really wanted to capture the softness or delicacy of the power of women and the grace and legacy of Sophie Maxwell through soft sculpture.
s/o to the @elemental.studio.sf team who helped me fabricate & install the sculpture 🫶🏽⛓️
