Owner Metropolitan Life, Cushman & Wakefield, Studio TMT, and Richlen Construction invested two years in the development of 425 Market Street lobby's project.

The 5,880 square foot main floor lobby Design-Build project followed building Met Life, and Cushman & Wakefield’s LEED terms.

If you're driving on Fremont Street or walking, take a look into the newly finished 425 Market Street Building's Lobby!

425 Main Street Lobby's Security Desk
425 main street building's view of the front's remodel by richlen construction

The challenge working on the lobby at 425 Market and Fremont Street during business hours was coordinating tenant and public traffic...


Fremont Street is a main artery to the Financial District. Nearly 37,000 vehicles pass by the 38 floor multi-tenant office tower daily. To manage the foot traffic, Richlen built full height barricades closing entrances off when working on each side. Business occupants and guest entered the high rise, and utilized two corridors of PEL’s during the remodel. This allowed for construction to be completed in two (2) phases, and helped with the limited site staging of material and equipment. Richlen commends the twenty-one (21) Subcontractors that demonstrated extraordinary cooperation throughout the project. An example of limited mobility in a given workspace was inside the elevator cabs! In order for the safety of the workforce and the product(s), installation took place in two shifts.


All selected light sources captured the essence of the lobby's sustainable renovation. Due to the amount of lights (163), the lobby’s lighting fixtures required their own schedule. Lamps, Lanterns, fluorescent, LED lights; Watts ranged from 1.5 to 234. The actual energy calculation; total breaker load 8388 with overall power density 1.500. This is one of the reasons the Class A building continues to win awards by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).


Other build facts included:
  • Our team of Accredited LEED Professionals made conscious efforts to reclaim materials for reuse. Existing stone pavers from the interior were salvage and re-used in the Plaza and Fremont exterior Entryways. The Elevator Cab call buttons were also reused. Though this wasn’t a LEED project, all companies helped reinforce Richlen’s responsibility to our environment by meeting and surpassing local disposal requirements for recycling.
  • New Entry Vestibules, Tempered "Herculite Type Doors (1 pair total ea. side), New Tempered All Glass Revolving Doors (2 pair ea. side)
  • Two (2) New Guards Desk(s) incorporating an electronic Tenant Directory on the front and three (3) screens (elevator control systems, camera monitor and tenant access card monitor).
  • Six (6) New Security Bollards and Systems at Entries to Passenger Elevators Lobbies with Card Readers
  • Seven (7) New Elevator Lobby Cameras
  • New Elevator, Excavate Elevator pit, New Forms and Concrete
  • New Common Retail Entry with Tempered Glass Doors, Sandblasted Emulating 3M Scotchcal film with Tenant Logo
  • Reconfigured and Performed Structural Glass Wall Seismic Bracing
  • New Pilkington Planar Type Structural Glazing System
  • Two (2) Structural Glass Wall to Ceiling Systems each 76'8" by 15'1". Tested to withstand 85 mile per hour winds.
  • New Acoustical and Drywall ceilings throughout Lobby
  • Enhanced HVAC Systems
  • New Lighting Fixtures
  • New Lobby Seating