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District 6 · Block 3733, Lot 008 · ZIP 94103

S E Massengill Co Pharmaceuticals

250 Fourth Street

  • Hotel
  • 12 stories
  • 111,128 ft2
  • 10,400 ft2 lot area
  • 194 residential units
  • 194 rooms
  • Zoned C3S
  • Not a historic resource
  • Sold January 16, 2008
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  1. 1947

    Built as a drug wholesale building, one of the few commercial buildings put up in the Central SoMa area in the lean post-war years; today used by Olivet University.

    Central SoMa Historic Context Statement, adopted 2016
  2. 1975

    A one-year federal grant paid for a public health clinic opened here in 1975 to teach the city's gay men about sexually transmitted disease; openly gay staff ran testing on site and at the bathhouses. Threatened with demolition.

    Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson, Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco, San Francisco Planning Department, adopted by the Historic Preservation Commission November 18, 2015
  3. Oct 1985
    Permit 8511994 $$$ $75,000

    Make new enterance for restaurant, put partitions for store.

  4. Mar 1986
    Permit 8602395 $$$ $30,000

    Aseismic bracing, steel and concrete work.

  5. Apr 1986
    Permit 8604474 $$$ $200,000

    Alter entry walls, stairs, construct ramps, replace elevator.

  6. May 1989
    Permit 8907619 $$$ $18,000

    Complete non structural demolition & removal.

  7. Nov 1993
    Permit 9319248 $$$ $34,605

    Reroofing.

  8. Mar 2000
    Permit 200003033375 $$$ $450,000

    G/f renovation convert existing museum spaces to office use.

  9. Apr 2000
    Permit 200004187526 $$$ $30,000

    Loading dock modification with 2000/03/03/3375. demolition same concrete, new concrete sections & mechanica.

  10. May 2001
    Permit 200105149007 $$$ $82,000

    Oti-1 2nd floor el me.

  11. Aug 2001
    Permit 200108226574 $$$ $60,000

    Reroofing.

  12. Jun 2013
    Issued Permit 201306280802 $$$ $17,500,000

    To erect 12 stories, 1 basement, 208 units hotel, commercial & restaurant building.

  13. Dec 2013
    Issued Permit 201312204777 $$$ $26,500

    To demolish 2 stories, office building.

  14. Mar 2014
    Issued Permit 201403120536 $$$ $40,000

    Cantilever soldier pile shoring wall where existing basement wall will be used for temporary shoring. a waler system will be installed between piles.

  15. Sep 2015
    Issued Permit 201509015777 $$$ $1

    Revision to pa 2014-0312-0536 cantilevered soldier shoring will utilize basement will be used for temporary shoring.

  16. Feb 2016
    Issued Permit 201602169725 $$$ $96,000

    Tower crane erection operating submittal for 201306280802 and 201510301352.

  17. Sep 2016
    Issued Permit 201609238680 $$$ $10,000

    Revision to app#201306280802 s-2. window washing catwalk addition to penthouse steel framing plans.

  18. Oct 2016
    Permit 201610130196 $$$ $125,709

    Fire sprinkler t.i. for interior improvements arch ref permit application #201306280802 s4 - adds 243 heads. previously appproved sprinkler plans for core building approved under 201306280802 s5.

  19. Aug 2017
    Issued Permit 201708286124 $$$ $25,000

    Interior improvements for lower level, lobby level, mezzanine and 12th floor: interior lighting and associated title 24 to be submitted to sfdbi under separate permit. ref. p.a. #201306280802s4.

  20. Dec 2018
    Permit 201812128107 $$$ $12,000

    Furnish & install 2 ansul r-102 fire supression system in the main kitchen on the ground floor. furnish & install one ansul r-102 fire suppression systme in the kitchen areas on the 2nd floor and 1 ansul r-102 fire suppression system in the kitchen area on the 6th floor. ref app#201708286124.

  21. 2019

    Current structure built.

DBI holds 59 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 59. 5 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 6 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.

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