San Francisco's Salesforce Tower opens for business: Photos, social media reaction from first day

People react to the opening day of Salesforce Tower in San Francisco on Monday, January 8, 2017. People react to the opening day of Salesforce Tower in San Francisco on Monday, January 8, 2017. Photo: Twitter Photo: Twitter Image 1 of / 78 Caption Close San Francisco's Salesforce Tower opens for business: Photos, social media reaction from first day 1 / 78 Back to Gallery

San Francisco's Salesforce Tower officially opened on Monday, and the building received a welcome befitting of its new residence: gray skies, fog and intermittent rainfall.

At 1,070 feet high, the Salesforce behemoth is the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. The whole of San Francisco unfolds around it for those who to dare ascend the building's 61 floors to its glass apex.

Such a climb would have been fruitless on opening day, when a winter storm crawled into the Bay Area overnight and stayed through the afternoon.

The Salesforce Tower has been much discussed since the sloping steel building first began rising – and rising and rising – out of the Financial District. But the majority of public discussion has revolved around the facade of the hulking building and, naturally, its disruption of the San Francisco skyline.

But on a day such as this one, the conversation was not outward-focused, but inward. New tenants finally got to step inside their new digs, and it didn't matter so much that those across the Bay failed to see lights flicker on inside the building.

Many took to social media to celebrate the occasion, including the Salesforce CEO himself. He shared a photo of some of the building's newest residents, captioned: "Here they are: The first occupants of Salesforce Tower. Very historic. They Ohana are receiving their orientation on an amazing workplace. May they do well and do good!"

Click through the above gallery for a look inside the new building and reactions from its new tenants.

Michelle Robertson is an SFGATE staff writer. Email her at mrobertson@sfchronicle.com or find her on Twitter at @mrobertsonsf.



