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District 6 · Block 3704, Lot 003 · ZIP 94103

Oakwood Hotel

40–48 Fifth Street

  • Hotel
  • 5 stories
  • 17,790 ft2
  • 3,746 ft2 lot area
  • 3 residential units
  • 74 rooms
  • 22 bathrooms
  • Zoned C3G
  • Historic resource
  • Sold April 28, 1989
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  1. April 18, 1906

    The brick shell of the Waldorf lodging house remained standing after the disaster.

    Central SoMa Historic Context Statement, adopted 2016
  2. 1907

    Built.

  3. 1907

    Rehabilitated by the McDougall Brothers as the Oakwood Hotel. Research by San Francisco Heritage records that the Waldorf's terra cotta cornice was salvaged and the lobby reconstructed.

    Central SoMa Historic Context Statement, adopted 2016
  4. October 1971

    The Oakwood was counted among the neighborhood's standard-condition residential hotels, with 74 units and five vacancies recorded.

    URS Research Company / Arthur D. Little, Inc., Yerba Buena Center Public Facilities and Private Development: Environmental Impact Report (draft), prepared for the City and County of San Francisco, 1973.
  5. Jun 1983
    Permit 8305771 $$$ $900

    Sign - erect.

  6. Feb 1988
    Permit 8801696 $$$ $8,300

    Replace store front, drop ceiling.

  7. Oct 1988
    Permit 8815155 $$$ $1,200

    Put up an 3x3-5"x18'ft. awning up on the store front liquors.

  8. Oct 1994
    Permit 9417247 $$$ $32,000

    Add new counters-remodel 2 handicap bth rms.

  9. Dec 1994
    Permit 9421380 $$$ $2,500

    Awning made of tubing 3/4" frame covered with vinyl sheet.

  10. Aug 1995
    Permit 9513669 $$$ $59,000

    Seismic hazard reduction-ccsf ord. 225 92.

  11. Jan 2001
    Permit 200101311032 $$$ $33,300

    One-stop: relocate restroom to make space of a small office, entrance door for ada compliance.

  12. Apr 2012
    Permit 201204067831 $$$ $5,800

    Comply with nov #201202591. repair fire damage in lightwell. non-structural. repair in kind.

  13. Aug 2018
    Permit 201808137170 $$$ $75,000

    Install (236) new sprinklers per nfpa #13. ti #201805017905.

  14. Mar 2019
    Permit 201903195687 $$$ $19,000

    New ifp-100-power supply-pullstation, smokes, radio.

  15. Jun 2024
    Permit 202406144520 $$$ $1,000

    Replace existing fire alarm system upgrade with notification to comply with sffd 1103.7.6.1, install lf sounders in all sleeping areas in units per sffd 1103.7.6.1, install a kirkland led annunciator and driver. as built scope of work.

  16. Sep 2024
    Issued Permit 202409039919 $$$ $75,000

    To obtain final inspection for work approved under permit application 2018-0813-7170. all work is complete.

DBI holds 48 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 48. 6 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 13 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.

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