1500–1550 16th Street

1. 1952

   Built as the John P. Lynch Company building, later the Pfizer chemical plant.

   Showplace Square / Northeast Mission Historic Resource Survey, adopted 2011
2. Jun 1982

   Permit 8204715 $$$ $20,000

   Building use: offices.

3. May 1991

   Permit 9107459 $$$ $25,000

   Tenant improvement, arts activity.

4. Oct 1991

   Permit 9120136 $$$ $24,500

   Remodel & enlarge existing mens & women's locker bathroom facilty.

5. Nov 1991

   Permit 9121560 $$$ $13,000

   Reroofing.

6. Mar 1992

   Permit 9203752 $$$ $56,866

   Reroofing.

7. Jun 1997

   Permit 9710140 $$$ $60,000

   Provide mens/womens handicapped restrms/accessible lunchrm.

8. Jul 1997

   Permit 9713056 $$$ $40,000

   New accessible ramp/staircase/interior partitions.

9. Oct 2009

   Permit 200910219473 $$$ $78,000

   Tenant improvements of existing office. alteration of existing walls. replace existing restrooms w.new 8-vanities, 6-toilets, 3-urinals & 8-showers for accessible restrooms. mechanincal system under separate permit.

10. Jan 2010

    Permit 201001134701 $$$ $65,000

    Heating and air conditioning.

11. Nov 2011

    Permit 201111108706 $$$ $20,000

    Convert 3 existing offices to dance and music class rooms per plan. no work done to exterior.

12. Aug 2013

    Permit 201308154465 $$$ $18,000

    Installation of a manual & automatic fire alarm system including fire alarm control unit, manual pulls station, smoke detector, monitor modules & notification devices.

13. Aug 2014

    Permit 201408113528 $$$ $50,000

    T.i. of existing office. add non-bearing walls for new office rooms. relocate one new restroom, remodle existing breakroom & storage area. reconfigure two existing stairs. n/a maher ordinance.

14. Dec 2022

    Filed Permit 202212087933 $$$ $27,000,000

    Erect a 5-story, type 1b, laboratory building with a below-grade parking garage.**comply with maher ord#155-13, route to dph**.

15. Dec 2022

    Filed Permit 202212087897 $$$ $300,000

    Demolish a 1-story, type 3, office/gym building.

16. May 2025

    Permit 202505206897 $$$ $3,000

    Exploratory work to determine approx. fifteen footings' size/depth/location. all holes to be filled back with slurry. no structural work.

17. Jun 2025

    Permit 202506269545 $$$ $320,000

    1500 16th st was gym, now change of use as #201/2nd fl to business services. 1st/f #101 to be whole sale. 1st fl/#102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107 to be whole sale. demolition e) wall & partitions. construct n) walls, partitions, ada ramps, restrooms, skylights. replace exterior windows & storefronts.n)lights/panels.

18. Aug 2025

    Permit 202508253856 $$$ $10,000

    Install new fire alarm system to monitor fire sprinkler system and provide occupant notification and elevator control functions as required. ref t.i. 202506269545.

19. Sep 2025

    Permit 202509225810 $$$ $12,000

    Revision to permit application 202506269545: 4 storage rooms removed in one unit. 1st floor restroom layout changed: one sink counter added; one unit: restroom layout changed. no exterior work, no change of use, no sidewalk work, and no structural work. fire sprinkler/fa under separate permit.

20. Oct 2025

    Permit 202510157394 $$$ $21,735

    Install new fire sprinkler per nfpa 13 @ new added bathrooms & corridor and relocate sprinkler at break areas. connect to existing system total sprinklers 35. ref permit application 202509225810.

DBI holds 57 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 57. 1 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 5 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.