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District 5 · Block 0792, Lot 031 · ZIP 94102

San Francisco Ballet Building

455 Franklin Street

  • Office building
  • 4 stories
  • 62,140 ft2
  • 18,755 ft2 lot area
  • 26 rooms
  • 6 bathrooms
  • Zoned NC-3
  • Not a historic resource
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  1. Aug 1981
    Permit 8107141S $$$ $8,650,738

    Building use: ballet complex.

  2. 1982

    The San Francisco Ballet building, designed by architect Beverly Willis — the first building in the United States designed and built solely for a major ballet company.

    Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
  3. 1983

    Built.

  4. Mar 1983
    Permit 8301873 $$$ $70,000

    Construct office over 4th floor corridor.

  5. Dec 1986
    Permit 8615351 $$$ $10,000

    Hang temporary nutcracker structure for 4 weeks.

  6. Sep 1995
    Permit 9515742 $$$ $9,100

    New cabinets, carpets, interior finishes at box office.

  7. Sep 2000
    Permit 200009130448 $$$ $25,000

    Install cellular telephone equipment in cabinet on roof of building, mount 2 small antennas.

  8. Oct 2001
    Permit 200110039890 $$$ $3,250,000

    Site permit- horizontal addition to the exist on all floor. sprinklers under separate permit.

  9. Jun 2002
    Issued Permit 200206108640 $$$ $19,800

    1, 2 & 4/fl- relocate 130 fire sprinklers on 3 floors to accomodate new ceiling installation.

  10. Jun 2002
    Permit 200206249818 $$$ $106,000

    Fire alarm drawings on 5th floors.

  11. May 2003
    Permit 200305194959 $$$ $14,225

    Fire sprinkler tenant improvement @ existing buklding (practial work on 4 floors) approx: 200 hds.

  12. Jun 2003
    Permit 200306257959 $$$ $17,860

    New fire sprinkler system @ 5 story annex to existing building. per nfpa 13 throughout. using existing underg.

  13. May 2005
    Issued Permit 200505112082 $$$ $10,000

    Erect electric, wall, projecting, double faced.

  14. Jul 2008
    Permit 200807086219 $$$ $14,000

    Install safety anchor in compliance with cal/osha requirements on roof.

  15. Mar 2010
    Permit 201003258920 $$$ $10,000

    Installation of 1 illuminated wall sign.

  16. Aug 2012
    Permit 201208207777 $$$ $123,500

    Removal of existing at & t radio equipment of antennas. intallation of 11 new equipment cabinets (with appurtenant equip) on a new 13'x24' roof mtd. plat form. also installation of 9 new antennas (with apputenant equip) on roof with antenna screening.

  17. Apr 2014
    Permit 201404012149 $$$ $30,000

    Modification to an existing at&t facility consisting of removing & replacing 9 existing antennas with new antennas of similar dimensions, adding 1 new durcell cabinet, 3 new rrus, and 3 new a-2 modules at equipment platform on roof.

  18. Jun 2015
    Permit 201506037909 $$$ $55,000

    Add 2 split systems for it closet, 1 unit is redundant.

  19. Mar 2016
    Permit 201603152066 $$$ $65,000

    Modify to an existing at&t facility include: remove/replace 9 existing antennas with 9 new antennas within existing faux vents, install 9 new rrus at at&t equipment platform, misc. improvements to equipment include cable tray expansion, swapping surge suppressors & dtmas.

  20. May 2018
    Permit 201805189542 $$$ $15,000

    At&t wireless - swap 9 antennas, install 6 rrus, swap 3 rru's enlarge radomes total 2.

  21. Jul 2019
    Issued Permit 201907186213 $$$ $7,000

    Electrical modernization: provide 2 control relays for fireman's hat function for elev 1&2 combine 3 t.i. 201603152066.

  22. Dec 2021
    Permit 202112013408 $$$ $80,000

    Att modification. r& 9 panel antenas, r&r 3 rrus. r&r 6 rruw with 3 diplexers. install 1 pipe to pipe. install 3 dc power trunks to existing dc6. remove 12 155ah batteries. install 12 190 ah bat in existing dcrp battery cab. r&r 4 155ah with 8 new. add new 6648 baseboard in existing cabinet. add 2 new rectifiers.

  23. Dec 2023
    Permit 202312011748 $$$ $287,000

    Mcquay chiller replacement.

DBI holds 33 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 33. 3 expired or cancelled permits are not shown. The city's Modern & Postmodern styles context statement dates this building 1984; the assessor's roll records it as built 1983. A third year is on record for the ballet building: the citywide collection of professional biographies dates it 1982.

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