In 1956, trucking entrepreneur Malcom McLean loaded the first payload of standardized shipping containers aboard the refitted tanker ship Ideal-X and watched as they departed Newark for Houston. The implementation of his intermodal dream signaled a sea change for the movement of goods around the world, one in which truck/ship/plane/train all ( Read more... )

The results of the international Transbay design competition were released today. As the site's entitlement promises to make this the tallest building on the west coast (1200' - 1400' to the Transamerica Pyramid's 854'), and its zoning allows for intermodal transit center, retail, commercial, residential and hotel uses all in the same development, ( Read more... )