248–290 Front Street
Office building
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1850s
Through the second half of the nineteenth century the site held commercial buildings occupied at various times by a soap company, liquor-rectifying operations, a tobacco company and salt companies.
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1852
The site was filled in 1851–52 in the filling of Yerba Buena Cove — ten to twenty feet of fill over the cove floor, dune sand, refuse and storeship remains among it — and the first buildings, typically one- and two-storey commercial structures, were probably put up on it in 1852 after the fire of May 1851.
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1856
Part of this site was the ground of Fort Gunnybags, the Vigilance Committee's 1856 stronghold; a plaque marks the spot. The two brick buildings that stood over it came down for the office building of 2000.
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1906
Every building on the site was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire; the pair of brick commercial buildings that replaced them were part of the post-earthquake rebuilding.
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1909
A two-storey brick commercial building of the immediate post-1906 rebuilding, put up in 1909 by the P. J. Walker Construction Company; no architect is recorded on its plans. It was cleared for the office building of 2000.
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1913
A two-storey brick commercial building of 1913, designed by H. K. Lovell and built by the P. J. Walker Construction Company. It was cleared for the office building of 2000.
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1929
By 1929 a small service station stood on the Sacramento and Front corner of the site — ground that was still a vacant building lot in 1995.
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1979
Both buildings on the site were rated "C" — contextual importance — in the Foundation for San Francisco's Architectural Heritage survey published in 1979 as Splendid Survivors; the Planning Department's 1976 citywide survey had not rated them.
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Feb 1985
Sign - erect.
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1986
A former owner asked the Planning Department to reconsider the buildings' Category IV ratings because the Front Street facades had been altered and sandblasted; staff declined, finding the work had not lowered the buildings' integrity.
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1989
A high-rise was approved for the empty corner portion of the site; the lot stayed empty, and by 1995 the Planning Department was reviewing an application for an interim two-storey retail structure instead.
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Apr 1998
Erect a 9 story office/retail/parking structure.
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2000
Built.
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Mar 2000
Retail space first time tenant build out.
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Jan 2001
Oti-1 3rd floor, electrical, mechanical, sprinkler, lifesafty.
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Jan 2001
Oti-1 4th floor mehcanical, lifesafty, electrical, sprinkler.
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Jan 2001
Oti-1 4th fl/ electrical, mechanical.
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Jan 2001
Oti-2 3/f el me oti1 = 200101109528.
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Jan 2001
Oti-1 6th floor, el, me, l/s & sp.
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Jan 2001
Oti-1 5th floor, el, me, l/s & sp.
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Feb 2001
Oti-2 6th floor, ltg. mechanical.
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Feb 2001
Oti-2 5th floor ltg, mechanical.
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Apr 2003
Minor alterations to roof ferrace under previousing approved app#9807375s.
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Jul 2010
4th, 6th & 7th floors-demolition of existing non structural walls, millwork, ceiling & finishes. new non struct walls, millwork, ceiling & finishes. no change in occupancy, use or square feet. m.e.p, sprklers, fire alarm under seperate permit. note: there is a change of use on 7th floor only from b to b, a2.
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Aug 2010
Floor 4, 6, 7 -mechanical and electrical. design build drawings for 201007025862. provide lighting in new offices. adjust existing havac to accomodate new layout- 2 fsd's relocated- fire alarm and sprinklers separate permits.
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Mar 2011
Removal of e 1 hr photo, update ceiling and soffit. addition of refrigeration case, new beverage center, new checkout, cosmetic, pharmacy and employee room. new finish throughout. perform work to comply with complaint 201073301. refer by sffd.
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Jan 2020
Replace existing bms (building management system) controls with new revised controllers and software smoke controls upgrade. ref permit application 201802141220.
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Sep 2022
5th fl: ab 017: interior demolition of non-structural elements including interior partitions, doors, finishes, electrical outlets and switches. space shall remain unoccupied until future tenant build out. per ab017 t.i. mep & life safety modification under seperate future permit.
DBI holds 74 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 74. 1 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 8 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.
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