San Francisco’s newest public space reflects Big Tech’s influence—and a city’s anxieties. Salesforce Park, in downtown San Francisco, sits atop the Salesforce Transit Center, above Salesforce Plaza, in the shadow of Salesforce Tower. It is a lush, five-and-a-half-acre rooftop arcadia of rolling meadows and meticulously landscaped, climatically harmonious, drought-tolerant flora…

…A robust, wellness-oriented calendar offers a range of creative and athletic diversions: salsa, Tai Chi, yoga, meditation, hiit boot camps, Zumba, power walking. There are children’s crafting classes, adult knitting circles, and a literary series, “Writers in Salesforce Park.” That evening was “Thursdays on Vinyl,” a ninety-minute d.j. set, organized in partnership with HUSHconcerts, a leader in the silent-disco space.

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