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District 3 · Block 0144, Lot 082 · ZIP 94133

490–498 Broadway

Hotel

  • 4 stories
  • 10,560 ft2
  • 6,006 ft2 lot area
  • Historic resource
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  1. 1900

    Built.

  2. 1950–1965

    The city's survey names El Matador at this address among the bars, cafes, bookshops and clubs of the North Beach Beat scene, whose period of significance it sets at about 1950 to 1965.

    North Beach Historic Context Statement, adopted 2022
  3. June 18, 1964

    Photographed, showing Vanessi's restaurant.

    San Francisco Subjects Photograph Collection (SFP 162), San Francisco Public Library
  4. October 11, 1986

    Robert Durden photographed the property, showing Vanessi's.

    Robert Durden Color Slide Collection (SFP 42), San Francisco Public Library
  5. Jan 1994
    Permit 9400890 $$$ $1,000

    Exploratory demol (correct notice of violation).

  6. Aug 1994
    Permit 9412330 $$$ $1,000

    Minor alterations to existing sprinkler system.

  7. Sep 1995
    Permit 9515169 $$$ $2,000

    Voluntary structural work to replace existing age damaged members.

  8. Dec 1995
    Permit 9521546 $$$ $30,000

    For record purposes only per wing lau--see 9504622.

  9. Oct 2000
    Permit 200010052442 $$$ $8,500

    New fire alarm system installation in glow american grill. new panel will act as master panel for en.

  10. Oct 2000
    Permit 200010132988 $$$ $3,500

    To erect non-electrical sign.

  11. Nov 2000
    Permit 200011024767 $$$ $4,000

    Double faced/electric/wall sign.

  12. Apr 2007
    Permit 200704189099 $$$ $3,000

    Ground floor - non-structural demolition. dry walls & county only.

  13. Jun 2007
    Issued Permit 200706133750 $$$ $2,500

    Addition of counter space and ada height counter on ground floor restaaurant space additional counter space not to increase occupancy load.

  14. Oct 2022
    Permit 202210194723 $$$ $2,000

    Installation of new buckeye hood duct system.

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. 1 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 14 expired permits are not shown. Bounce lists its luggage storage here as 494 Broadway, a number the city's addressing system does not hold: the surviving numbers on this block face are 475, 479, 483, 485, 487 and 490. The listing's own coordinates fall inside this parcel, whose recorded range is 490–498, so the business is placed here.

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