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1650–1656 Post Street

Japantown · San Francisco, CA 94115

  • Built 1927
  • 5-unit building with a ground-floor store
  • 2 stories
  • Zoned NC-2
  • District 5
  • Historic status: historic resource
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10,594 sq ftBuilding area
5,375 sq ftLot area
5Residential units
  1. 1943

    The California Theater Club Restaurant stood here during the Second World War — a cocktail lounge with a Hollywood-style floor show and a chorus line, the Ella Cummings Dancettes. The building is gone.

    African American Citywide Historic Context Statement, adopted 2024
  2. Jun 1995

    Reroofing.

    Expired Permit 9509773 $$$ $10,000
  3. Apr 2013

    Mta permit.

    Issued Permit M384987 $$$ $1
  4. Jan 2014

    Remove existing partitions, doors and some shelving, add new elevator, main electrical, phone room for new ground transformer in sidewalk, scope includes new partition, doors and stair as well as replacing some rotted beams & plywood decking.

    Complete Permit 201401287250 $$$ $350,000
  5. Jul 2014

    Seismic upgrade shear walls a 1/2" water service, change 1 hr wall to 2-hr wall.

    Complete Permit 201407302580 $$$ $200,000
  6. Aug 2014

    Ground floor: the structural work shown on these drawings consist of underpinning near a new elevator pit of existing wood framed building. ref. elevator permit application 201401287250.

    Complete Permit 201408214380 $$$ $30,000
  7. Sep 2014

    Ab-12, use power door operators in lieu of lieu of level landings at doors. ab-17.

    Cancelled Permit 201409186748 $$$ $20,000
  8. Sep 2014

    Change of use: converting existing 2nd floor retail space (3, 475 sq ft) to four residential apartment one unit x (one bedrm), 2 x (one bedrm + den).

    Complete Permit 201409237117 $$$ $400,000
  9. Dec 2014

    Install fire sprinkler system complete. 137 pendant sprinklers and 47 upright sprinklers. work includes 4-inch underground ref permit application 201401287250.

    Complete Permit 201412234409 $$$ $62,000
  10. Mar 2015

    Electrical lighting for 201407302580.

    Complete Permit 201503049968 $$$ $30,000
  11. Apr 2015

    Install sprinkler monitoring/elevator recall system as part of building renovation ref 201407302580/201412234409.

    Complete Permit 201504274672 $$$ $12,000
  12. Jun 2015

    Demolish existing part of mezzanine and reconstruct existing mezzanine in kind.

    Complete Permit 201506229584 $$$ $15,000
  13. Aug 2015

    Tenant improvement to an existing grocery market to a women's spa use a-3 occupancy, including 565 sq ft additoin at the rear yard on ground floor. mep, sprinklers under separate permit.

    Complete Permit 201508033138 $$$ $350,000
  14. Oct 2015

    Mep deferred submittal to building permit 201508033138.

    Complete Permit 201510149659 $$$ $1
  15. Mar 2016

    Install 50 fire sprinklers from existing plugs. ref: base building sprinkler permit by potter fire #2014-12234409. ref permit #2014-0923-7117 s1.

    Complete Permit 201603182494 $$$ $25,000
  16. Jul 2016

    Streetspace.

  17. Jul 2016

    Replace existing pendent sprinkler head with new conceal pendent heads, total 61 heads, ref. 201508033138.

    Complete Permit 201607182559 $$$ $3,000
  18. Aug 2016

    Hot tub/cold tub equipment installation to an existing ti 201508033138.

    Cancelled Permit 201608114809 $$$ $5,000
  19. Oct 2016

    B, g, m, 2 floors: 13 evac maps- ref #201508033138 & #201409237117.

    Complete Permit 201610120010 $$$ $5,200

5 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline.

Not yet documented: the architect and builder, the early residents and the date of the last recorded sale. Submit an update