55–59 Ninth Street

• Caruso's Dream — Brian Goggin and Dorka Keehn
  Glass, steel, wood; front building façade; artwork is always accessible.
  Installed 2014.

1. Jan 2000

   Sign.

   Expired Permit 20000119413 $$$ $3,000
2. Aug 2004

   Erect a new office, parking, assembly, fuel storage building.

   Cancelled Permit 200408111247 $$$ $32,000,000
3. Feb 2005

   Excavation, shoring & underpinning for 55 9th st. (site permit permit application 200408111247).

   Issued Permit 200502145412 $$$ $1,200,000
4. Apr 2005

   Remove 15"-20" of concrete from entire lot of an existingslab on grade parking lot for site preparation.

   Expired Permit 200504069288 $$$ $20,000
5. May 2005

   Erect tower crane for construction of new building.

   Cancelled Permit 200505031428 $$$ $15,000
6. Aug 2011

   To erect 17 stories, 273 units residential, retail & parking building.

   Complete Permit 201108233049 $$$ $84,965,000
7. Apr 2012

   Excavation shoring, soldier beam with tieback and wood lagging; cantilever soldier beam and wood lagging. no shoring or underpinning work on adjacent properties. construction under separate submittal.

   Complete Permit 201204178476 $$$ $600,000
8. Aug 2012

   Erect temporary crane for construction. ref 20110823049 new building.

   Complete Permit 201208157388 $$$ $20,000
9. Sep 2012

   Installation of fire fighter breathing air system in entire building.

   Withdrawn Permit 201209058996 $$$ $327,750
10. Jan 2013

    Revision to issued addendum 1 - for foundation improvement, reference approved & issue permit application 2011-08-23-3049 s-1.

    Complete Permit 201301309071 $$$ $1
11. Feb 2013

    Artwork installation along 55 9th st. reference approved & issued permit application 201108233049-s.

    Complete Permit 201302130146 $$$ $37,500
12. Sep 2013

    Evacuation signs (59) for b1, b2, 1 - 17 floor & roof.

    Complete Permit 201309055995 $$$ $17,700
13. Nov 2013

    Erect an electric single faced indirect new sign (portion letters attached to letters have 3 sides.

    Cancelled Permit 201311071436 $$$ $23,000
14. Nov 2013

    To erect two electrical sign "ava sign".

    Cancelled Permit 201311081475 $$$ $3,700
15. Nov 2013

    Interior non-structural, tenant improvement. leasing office for building. reference issued & approved permit application 2011-08-23-3049.

    Complete Permit 201311252762 $$$ $40,000
16. Sep 2014

    To build out a newly constructed retail space to create a restruarant with kitchen, bathroom, bar area and coffee bar.

    Complete Permit 201409176545 $$$ $250,000
17. May 2015

    Add 10 sprinklers & relocate 31 sprinklers on ground floor only. ref. appl. #2014.0917.6545. maher n/a.

    Issued Permit 201505227029 $$$ $8,000
18. Aug 2015

    Installation of ul300 fire system. ref app#201409176545.

    Complete Permit 201508073623 $$$ $3,000
19. Sep 2015

    1st floor: fire only permit, add 4 duct detectors, 2 monitoring modules, 10 speaker/strobes & 4 strobes to the existing system due to a tenant improvement.ref. building 201409176545; maher n/a.

    Complete Permit 201509247949 $$$ $11,000
20. Nov 2018

    2 new roof top ladders mounted to penthouse wall.

    Issued Permit 201811166067 $$$ $10,000
21. Dec 2019

    Ground floor demolition of fixtures and finishes of e restaurant. no ext changes, no structural work.

    Cancelled Permit 201912048690 $$$ $12,000
22. Dec 2020

    Replace existing entry lobby door with new power-assist door. entry lobby door is for residential lobby only.

    Suspended Permit 202012020065 $$$ $7,000
23. Feb 2021

    Reduce height of existing metal sidewalk planters along 9th street. add new in-grade planting areas at specified areas adjacent to building. add new veritical extension to existing fense & street gate at north property line.

    Cancelled Permit 202102084252 $$$ $75,000
24. Jun 2021

    To replace the errcs bda head end unit as well as the donor "roof" antenna to comply with sq ft frequencies. all other components remain unchanged.

    Issued Permit 202106293433 $$$ $20,000

DBI holds 38 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 38. 5 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits.

The thirteen suspended pianos were unveiled on 23 February 2014, built from salvaged safety plate glass forty to sixty years old and Douglas fir milled out of the foundations of the demolished 1939 Transbay Terminal. At night they light in sequence with a recording of Enrico Caruso, who sang at the Grand Opera House the night before the 1906 earthquake and described it afterwards as his bed rocking like a ship at sea.