Tishman Speyer’s 960-unit mixed-use project in Central SoMa earns approval.

A massive, mixed-use project with 960 residential units south of Market earned approval from the city’s planning commission on Thursday. The approval marks another milestone in the wide-ranging plan to turn the city’s large-scale “Central SoMa” project into a hub of new housing and office space amid the San Francisco’s development boom.

Developer Tishman Speyer proposed the project at the end of 2017 with internationally renowned architects from Bjarke Ingels Group designing the two towers at 655 4th St.