2501–2593 Sutter Street
136-unit apartment building
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1943
Westside Courts opened in the spring of 1943 with 136 units — four L-shaped and two U-shaped three-storey buildings arranged symmetrically around courtyards holding open space, drying yards and small play areas, with moulded concrete exterior stairs. Lester Hurd and James J. Mitchell designed it, and a 1946 survey of the city's public housing called it the most unusual and interesting design of any San Francisco Housing Authority project. It was the first public housing in the city made available to African Americans. Beniamino Bufano's granite St. Francis on Horseback, carved in 1935, was installed here in 1945.
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1943
Westside Courts, a public housing project built in 1943 and open to African Americans under the Housing Authority's neighbourhood-pattern policy because the surrounding area already had a Black majority. A Bufano sculpture stood in its central courtyard. It has since been rehabilitated inside and out by the San Francisco Housing Development Corporation.
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September 5, 1974
The 4,981-square-foot lot, with 37.5 feet of frontage, held a residential care home for 40 ambulatory patients, a use in place for about seven years; 37 patients lived there at the time. The City Planning Commission unanimously approved, with seven conditions, continuation of the residential care home, limiting it to 32 patients after 1 January 1975.
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Jan 1987
Bring building into code.
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Jan 1987
Bring building into code.
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Jan 1987
Bring building into code.
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Jan 1987
Bring building into code.
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Jan 1987
Bring building into code.
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May 1987
Bring building into compliance required by dahi.
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Jan 2002
Disabled access barrier removal upgrade to entrance doors toilet rms kitchen signage electrical controls.
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Nov 2015
Rad priority. exterior rehab: roof, windows, paint. interior rehab: hvac, electrical plumbing, cabinets, fixtures & finishes. add five addresses.
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Nov 2015
Rad priority. exterior rehab: roof, windows, paint. interior rehab: hvac, electrical plumbing, cabinets, fixtures & finishes.add five addresses.
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Nov 2015
Rad priority. exterior rehab: roof, windows, paint. provide stand alone trash enclosure. interior rehab: hvac, electrical plumbing, cabinets, fixtures & finishes, provide new laundry room.add five addresses.
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Nov 2015
Rad priority. exterior rehab: roof, windows, paint, new stand alone trash enclosure. interior rehab: hvac, electrical plumbing, cabinets, fixtures & finishes. (no work on day care space). add five addresses.
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Nov 2015
Rad priority. exterior rehab: roof, windows, paint. interior rehab: hvac, electrical, plumbing, cabinets, fixtures & finishes.add five addresses.
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Nov 2015
Rad priority. exterior rehab: roof, windows, paint. interior rehab: hvac, electrical plumbing, cabinets, fixtures & finishes.add five addresses.
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Apr 2017
B-3 - revision to permit application 201511051902: lounge space is converted to maintenance room & addition of unisex toilet to maintenance room @ b-3 (rad) basement. add exterior door & exhaust louver for bathroom.
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May 2017
Building 3 - installation of new fire alarm system including new fire panel, smoke detector, pull stations, low frequency sounders in all ulnits and monitor module to monitor water flow switch. ref pa 2015-1105-1902.
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Sep 2017
New 3 bin trash enclosure with accessible path to pneumatic hatch doors. additon of new concrete steps with canopy to access office entrance at building off sutter st. various civil site utility improvments.
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Sep 2017
Installation of new fire system with new control unit, readio communicator & power supply. install pull stations at every exit in partly sprinkled building combo cmoke det with lf sounded base will be install in every unit. install monitor module to tie-in exist flow switch. ref #201511051898.
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Nov 2017
Installation of new fire control system with new panel, radio communicator & power supply. combination smoke/co detector with low frequency sounder base will be installed inside every unit install monitor module to tie-in existing flow switch pa 2015-1105-1901.
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Apr 2018
Modify existing fire sprinkler. ref app#201709299943. n/a for maher.
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Apr 2018
Playground renovation only 2415 sq ft existing playground - replace playstructures install new surfacing, furnishing, maintenance shed, new hose bibb. located in existing publically funded housing development.
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Apr 2018
Installation of new fire alarm system with new control panel. radio communicator power supply in the basment in partly sprinklered building. install pull stations at every exists, low frequency sounder in every unit, notifcation devices throuhgout common areas. install monitor modules to tie in sprinkle.
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May 2018
Installation of new fire system with new control panel, radio comm poer supply, pull station at every exit in partly sprk building. comb smoke /co detectros with low freq sounder base in every unit. notifications devices in common area monitor mode for flow. 201511051899.
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Jul 2018
Installation of fire alarm ststem with new control panel, smk det, pull stations, radio communicator. low greq sounders in every unit, monitor module to tie-in to existing flow switch to new panel ref 201511051905 maher na.
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Jul 2025
Replace cracked and damaged concrete at parking lot (private) and driveway in kind. 4100sf.
DBI holds 44 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 44. 10 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits.
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