The property is bounded by Lakeside Drive, which terminates and joins Harrison Street at the site, 20th-, 21st-, and Webster-streets.

The building's roof garden was designed by San Francisco-based landscape architecture firm, Theodore Osmundson & Associates, and was the first built in the United States after World War II.

[6] It is much more likely that his son Edgar, who was in charge of Kaiser industries and a major power broker in the Bay Area by the time the building was commissioned, was the person who occupied any residential apartments.

In the summer of 2020, San Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced it would place for sale its downtown San Francisco headquarters complex, which has become increasingly expensive to operate, and relocate its headquarters to Kaiser Center, which it intends to purchase.

A deal to sell the San Francisco complex was reached in the spring of 2021, subject to approval from the California Public Utilities Commission.