Three floors at 1070 Bryant Street.
A 1918 heavy-timber industrial building in SoMa, rebuilt as a permanent showroom: components at the bottom, systems in the middle, people and process at the top.
The dense floor
Electromechanical parts, interconnect, displays and sensing — the highest SKU count in the building. This is the floor you come to when you know roughly what you need and want to see forty versions of it side by side.
Displays are organised by category rather than by supplier, so the connectors sit with the connectors regardless of who makes them. Every case has catalogs and cards in a rack beneath it, and the sample library at the back holds labelled drawers of loose parts you can pull, measure and photograph without asking anyone.
- Sample library
- Drawer displays
- Glass cases
- Catalog racks
- Category wayfinding
Powered and running
Larger systems on live power — arms, grippers, AMRs, motion rigs and machine-vision cells. Floor space and three-phase service drops so a supplier can actually run their equipment instead of showing you a rendering of it.
Two demo bays are bookable by the half-day for a supplier who wants to bring in a cell and run it against a real part. If you want to see whether a gripper handles your specific geometry, this is the floor where you bring the geometry.
- Live demos
- Service drops
- Motion rigs
- Vision cells
- Conveyor loops
Where the deal gets done
Process and material suppliers, finish and tooling sample libraries, private rooms where a supplier can sit down with a buyer, and call booths for factory calls across time zones — the 4pm-in-SF, 7am-in-Shenzhen call is a fact of life here, so we built rooms for it.
And the roof deck, with a view over SoMa to the skyline, where the mixers, teardowns and supplier nights run. See the calendar.
- Meeting pods
- Call booths
- Supplier rooms
- Roof deck
- Cafe bar
Receiving, bulk
and the workshop.
The lower level does the unglamorous work: a receiving bay for supplier stock and samples, bulk displays for anything too heavy or too long for a glass case — linear rails, industrial motors, drive shafts — and a workshop bench where staff can open a sample up.
It is also where mail forwarding runs. Packages addressed to an exhibiting supplier's SFbei suite arrive here, get logged, and go out the same week.
- Receiving bay
- Bulk displays
- Workshop bench
- Mail room
- Freight access
1070 Bryant Street, San Francisco.
By car
1070 Bryant, between 9th and 10th. One block from the 101 on-ramp; street and lot parking on Bryant and Brannan.
By transit
A short walk from Civic Center BART and the 9, 12, 19 and 27 lines. Caltrain 4th & King is a ten-minute ride.
Hours
Planned Monday to Friday, 9am–6pm, with late opening on event nights. Confirmed closer to launch.
Three floors.
One afternoon.
Pre-register as a builder and you can walk the whole building as often as you like, free, from opening day.