After years of watching remote work dominate the Bay Area tech scene, developers are doubling down on a wild bet: what if offices were so luxurious that people actually wanted to show up?

Enter 88 Spear Street, aka The Spear, a 13-story building near the Embarcadero that’s getting a $100 million makeover to become what developers are calling an “office resort”. Presidio Bay Ventures, the firm behind the project, dropped $41 million on the property back in 2023 and is now banking on the idea that amenities and fresh renovations will be enough to get workers back into the office.

Cyrus Sanandaji, managing principal at Presidio Bay Ventures, is pushing this vision hard. “The office resort is our answer to what the future of the office needs to look like”, he told KTVU. “It’s something you can’t get at home. It’s giving people something to look forward to every day through little moments of delight”.

To be fair, the amenities they’re planning sound pretty solid. There’s a rooftop restaurant and lounge coming from PLEASE Management, the team behind the nearby Holbrook House, promising Californian wood-fired cuisine opening early next year. On the ground floor, you’ll find a new Arsicault Bakery location for your morning coffee fix. Beyond that, the building will feature wellness services (yes, including IV treatments), a spa, a golf simulator, skill-building workshops, and content creation studios. Tenants also get access to event spaces on the rooftop.

Coworking space Canopy has already signed on, and move-in for other tenants is expected around November 2026.

Here’s the thing though: this isn’t the first time a tech company has tried to bribe workers back to the office with shiny perks. During the first dot-com boom, companies loaded offices with video games, kegerators, and foosball tables, treating work like one giant playground. Even massive companies like Google and Meta threw free, fancy cafeterias at the problem. It didn’t really stick after the pandemic gave everyone a taste of remote work.

Remember Expensify? The fintech company actually invested in a free cocktail bar for employees back in early 2023. Seemed promising until it wasn’t. Six months later, they shut it down, with the CEO straight up saying, “we’re just never going back to a regular 9-5 office culture”.

So will The Spear be different? Maybe. The project does signal that developers believe San Francisco office space still has a future if it’s nice enough, following similar trends like the renovation of the Transamerican Pyramid. Whether rooftop dining and IV drips are actually enough to lure workers back full-time remains to be seen. But hey, at least you’ll get a good croissant out of it.