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District 6 · Block 3778, Lot 005 · ZIP 94103

San Francisco Flower Terminal

575–599 Sixth Street

  • Store building
  • 2 stories
  • 55,199 ft2
  • 81,056 ft2 lot area
  • 15 residential units
  • 33 rooms
  • 31 bathrooms
  • Zoned SLI
  • Historic resource
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  1. 1936

    Shareholders of the California Flower Market raised the assessment on vendors and used the funds to buy a lot at 5th and Brannan streets, the future home of the market.

    Central SoMa Historic Context Statement, adopted 2016
  2. 1956

    Built.

  3. September 1956

    The San Francisco Flower Terminal opened, mayor George Christopher presiding — a three-acre complex of two principal warehouses and a mall of storefronts, designed by master architect Mario Ciampi so that the California Flower Market, the San Francisco Flower Growers and the Peninsula Flower Growers could share the site while staying as autonomous as possible. It was then the largest wholesale flower terminal in the United States and remains one of only four. It replaced a pipe yard, an auto truck yard and a scrap metal works that the U.S. Navy had leased during the Second World War.

    Central SoMa Historic Context Statement, adopted 2016
  4. Sep 2001
    Issued Permit 200109289528 $$$ $10,000

    Add walk-in cooler to existing space and extend existing second floor space.

1 expired permit is omitted.

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