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District 6 · Block 3722, Lot 020 · ZIP 94105

Merritt Building

606–612 Howard Street

  • Office building
  • 6 stories
  • 55,200 ft2
  • 9,199 ft2 lot area
  • 62 rooms
  • 18 bathrooms
  • Zoned C3OSD
  • Historic resource
  • Sold August 20, 1997
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  1. 1904

    Built.

  2. 1907

    Built as the Merritt Building.

    Transit Center District Survey, adopted 2012
  3. May 17, 1951

    The Office of the Assessor-Recorder photographed the property for tax assessment. Nanco; Spurgeon and Smith Company were at the address.

    Assessor-Recorder Photographs (SFP 23), San Francisco Public Library
  4. Feb 1982
    Permit 8200871 $$$ $15,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  5. Jul 1992
    Permit 9212470 $$$ $38,000

    Reroofing.

  6. Oct 1996
    Permit 9620692 $$$ $27,000

    Cti - i 3rd floor.

  7. Jan 1998
    Permit 9800451 $$$ $52,830

    Reroofing.

  8. Jun 2000
    Permit 200006061879 $$$ $100,000

    Oti-1 5/f el me ls sp 5/f.

  9. Jan 2002
    Permit 200201297999 $$$ $40,000

    Repair of natoma st sidewalk & sub-sidewalk structurl slab along building frontage, no increase in offi.

  10. Nov 2002
    Permit 200211252185 $$$ $50,000

    Temporary shoring & underpinning for new construction.

  11. Oct 2005
    Permit 200510065025 $$$ $35,000

    Suite 300 - partial demolition: 4 offices incl doors&walls.new low walls & partial full hight wall.electrical design build under separate permit. no mceh work all existing.

  12. 2008

    Recorded in the city's 2008 survey of the Transit Center District, adopted in 2012, as a contributor to the proposed New Montgomery, Mission & Second Historic District.

    Transit Center District Survey, adopted 2012
  13. Apr 2019
    Issued Permit 201904258898 $$$ $90,000

    Third floor tenant improvement: eliminate corridor new bathrooms, new lighting, new non-structural partitions, paint. new elevator panel upgrade, new entry (building) threshold. maher n/a.

  14. Jul 2019
    Permit 201907186212 $$$ $195,000

    Ti - new restrooms, remodel offices & corridor; new server room, re-lamp existing lighting scheme using existing j-boxes; replace existing in-suite hvac as necessary; paint, repair & re-coat existing floor; paint throughout.

  15. Jun 2020
    Permit 202006309402 $$$ $195,000

    Ti new toilets, new fixtures & new finishes, new lighting @ existing j boxes. sand & patch existing wood floor.

  16. Nov 2020
    Permit 202011249617 $$$ $80,000

    Suite 300. tenant improvements incl new meeting room with new doors, change in lighting layout.

DBI holds 109 permits for this parcel, most of them tenant improvements on individual floors. The timeline shows the 24 largest by stated cost, plus the earliest on file; the DBI query in the sources below returns all 109. 7 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 13 expired or cancelled permits are not shown. The 2008 survey of this district dates the building to 1907; the assessor dates the building on this parcel to 1904. The archive records two different addresses for this photograph, “608 Howard Street” and “606-612 Howard Street.”

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