Frontier Tower is turning a high-rise into stacked housing, work, and community space for AI, crypto, biotech, and longevity builders. Unlike rotating popups, the bet is permanence inside an existing city rather than a remote campus. It is often framed as a blueprint for inter-city network societies that stay plugged into a major metro. A 16-floor San Francisco tower converting into a vertical coliving village for frontier tech builders.
A self-governed vertical village in a 16-floor building in San Francisco, serving as a lab for frontier technologies. Open-minded, curious people interested in frontier technologies like AI, biotech, crypto, or arts & music. How is the tower organized? Most floors are divided by field of work.
Others are common convenience spaces. d/acc lounge for cross pollination. Coworking and library. Ethereum and decentralized tech.
Health and longevity. Frontier @ Accelerate. AI and autonomous systems. Neuro and biotech.
Frontier maker space. Arts and music. Movement floor and fitness center. Robotics and hard tech.
Private offices. Event and hackathon space.
Location
Frontier Tower is located at 995 Market Street, in downtown San Francisco.
The next location for a Frontier Tower is chosen according to a competition between cities.
Duration
Frontier Tower runs permanently as a co-living and co-working place for members, though the residency program is yet to be launched.
Pricing
- $190/month billed monthly
- Access to the spaces
Founding Citizen
Access to the spaces, special voting rights, and priority access to events Access to the spaces, special voting rights, and discounted hotel stays Builders under 25, as well as university teachers, students, and researchers can apply for a scholarship
- $150/month billed annually
- $500/month billed monthly
Amenities
- Co-working spaces
- Workshops, hackathons and events
Frontier Tower doesn't provide accommodation yet
- 24/7 secure access
- Audiovisual setup and lighting
- Access to all Frontier Tower amenities and event spaces
- Wellness perks: kombucha, premium coffee, and healthy snacks
- To lease an office, one must also have an active Founding Citizenship
History
Frontier Tower is inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In the 1990s, tens of thousands of people left East Berlin, leaving unoccupied buildings which came to serve as hubs for creative communities to emerge.
2025
Deep Ink Ventures and Berlinhouse materialized this vision and bought the 16-story building for $11 million.
Throughout the first year, the place hosted network state-related events, like the Viva Frontier Tower pop-up village, and is expected to launch a residency program soon.
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Ashlee Vance
@ashleevance
Last year, three German dudes bought a abandoned office tower in downtown SF. They've since turned it into the most tech-infused office in the world in the form of Frontier Tower.
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@olivercingl
Frontier Tower has got to be the coolest place I've been to in SF. 16 floors full of builders, humanoid robots, longevity stuff, anything you can think of. You can just work on something on one floor, you have a question about AI, go to the AI floor to get help, then you need help with robotics so you go the robotics floor.
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@frontiertower
The real reason founders move to SF isn't the capital. It's the hallway conversations. So we built a hallway.
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