The West Coast’s tallest tower may be sprouting into the San Francisco skyline.
Seven years after Salesforce Tower replaced the Transamerica Pyramid as the city’s highest skyscraper, a developer is planning to transform the former PG&E headquarters near the Embarcadero into a structure that would dwarf the Salesforce high-rise by 15 stories.
Hines — the company that co-developed Salesforce Tower, which rises 1,070 feet — filed an application Friday calling for a slender 1,225-foot tower to replace an office building at 77 Beale St. The tower, which would be more than 150 feet taller than the Salesforce building, would include 1.6 million square feet of office space, along with retail and restaurants opening onto a new mid-block public garden…