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District 6 · Block 3722, Lot 022 · ZIP 94105

San Francisco Furniture Exchange

170–180 New Montgomery Street

  • Office building
  • 8 stories
  • 172,178 ft2
  • 21,418 ft2 lot area
  • 143 rooms
  • 18 bathrooms
  • Zoned C3OSD
  • Historic resource
  • Sold April 28, 1995
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  1. 1920

    Built as the San Francisco Furniture Exchange.

    Transit Center District Survey, adopted 2012
  2. June 3, 1930

    Photographed.

    San Francisco Subjects Photograph Collection (SFP 162), San Francisco Public Library
  3. Nov 1981
    Permit 8109561 $$$ $2,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  4. Feb 1982
    Permit 8201044 $$$ $600,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  5. Sep 1982
    Permit 8207631 $$$ $700,000

    Building use: office.

  6. Apr 1983
    Permit 8303660 $$$ $75,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  7. Nov 1983
    Permit 8311638 $$$ $60,000

    Interior partit. temporary interior walls & doors.

  8. Mar 1984
    Permit 8403201 $$$ $200,000

    Demolition.

  9. Feb 1986
    Permit 8601261 $$$ $160,000

    Construct non structural walls with sheet metals studs.

  10. May 1986
    Permit 8605474 $$$ $400,000

    2nd time tenant improvement, no change in occupancy.

  11. May 1986
    Withdrawn Permit 8605604 $$$ $1,700,000

    2nd time tenant improvement/no change in occupancy.

  12. Sep 1996
    Permit 9617916 $$$ $57,000

    Reroofing.

  13. May 2004
    Permit 200405184205 $$$ $325,000

    Install new fire sprinkler system.

  14. May 2005
    Permit 200505162548 $$$ $350,000

    Fire / life safety upgrades including new sprinklers, upgraded fire alarm, new fire / smoke dampers.

  15. Sep 2005
    Issued Permit 200509122609 $$$ $50,000

    Minor fire alarm work to all floors. new smoke detectors & speaker / strobes.

  16. 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
  17. Jul 2012
    Issued Permit 201207255756 $$$ $25,000

    Addition of full height walls to create computer labs on 4th & 7th floors. accessibility upgrades on th 5th floor restrooms. no exterior work, no change of use.

  18. Aug 2016
    Filed Permit 201608266139 $$$ $53,000

    This permit is for a change of use from office to office/post secondary education institution. ** maher: n/a **.

  19. Feb 2020
    Filed Permit 202002285773 $$$ $85,000

    Priority process - abate / close enforcement case# 2015-013540. pursuant to case# 20080586, change of use from last legas use of general office to a post-secondary institution use. permit includes exterior work such as legalization of windows & panel replacement. bike parking added in building.

DBI holds 99 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 99. 4 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 9 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.

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