1852 Sutter Street

1. 1977

   The Japantown Art & Media Workshop, founded in 1977, began in a Redevelopment Agency-owned building at this address; its silkscreen posters gave the community's revitalisation campaigns their visual identity.

   Japantown Historic Context Statement, May 2009
2. Jul 1984

   Permit 8407857

   Demolition.

3. Jun 1985

   Permit 8506742 $$$ $14,000

   Install new fire sprinkler.

4. 1987

   Current structure built.

5. Jan 1989

   Permit 8901527 $$$ $1,000,000

   Re-application for expired site #8407931.

6. Jun 1989

   Permit 8910556 $$$ $22,500

   Add fire sprinklers in addition & in sprinklered existing areas.

7. Sep 1992

   Permit 9215208 $$$ $25,000

   Level floors, sec gate, exit plan signs, intercom sys, etc.

8. Nov 1993

   Permit 9320157 $$$ $15,000

   Remove existing n/'b partition & install folding partition.

2 expired or cancelled permits are omitted. The statement's footnote calls this the site the Japanese Community and Cultural Center of Northern California now occupies; the text gives that centre's property as 1840 Sutter Street, and a third passage gives 1858 Sutter Street. It does not reconcile them.