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. Feb 2005

   Issued Permit 200502145412 $$$ $1,200,000

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

2. Aug 2011

   Permit 201108233049 $$$ $84,965,000

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

3. Apr 2012

   Permit 201204178476 $$$ $600,000

   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.

4. Aug 2012

   Permit 201208157388 $$$ $20,000

   Erect temporary crane for construction. ref 20110823049 new building.

5. Sep 2012

   Withdrawn Permit 201209058996 $$$ $327,750

   Installation of fire fighter breathing air system in entire building.

6. Jan 2013

   Permit 201301309071 $$$ $1

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

7. Feb 2013

   Permit 201302130146 $$$ $37,500

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

8. Sep 2013

   Permit 201309055995 $$$ $17,700

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

9. Nov 2013

   Permit 201311252762 $$$ $40,000

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

10. 2014

    Built.

11. Sep 2014

    Permit 201409176545 $$$ $250,000

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

12. May 2015

    Issued Permit 201505227029 $$$ $8,000

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

13. Aug 2015

    Permit 201508073623 $$$ $3,000

    Installation of ul300 fire system. ref app#201409176545.

14. Sep 2015

    Permit 201509247949 $$$ $11,000

    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.

15. Nov 2018

    Issued Permit 201811166067 $$$ $10,000

    2 new roof top ladders mounted to penthouse wall.

16. Dec 2020

    Suspended Permit 202012020065 $$$ $7,000

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

17. Jun 2021

    Issued Permit 202106293433 $$$ $20,000

    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.

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. 8 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.

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.