Grinnell Company Building

1. 1924

   Built for Grinnell Company of the Pacific, successor to the General Fire Extinguisher Company, and photographed for the March 1935 issue of Architect & Engineer; the UMB survey noted its 'robust red' brick, and it carries roofline plaques bearing the letter G and the image of a fire sprinkler. Added to the Bluxome and Townsend Warehouse Historic District, correcting an apparent omission in the South of Market survey, whose DPR 523 A form gave no year of construction and photographed the company's separate steel-framed pipe shed instead. The same architects designed another contributor to the district, 650 5th Street.

   Central SoMa Historic Context Statement, adopted 2016
2. Apr 1997

   Permit 9706617 $$$ $500,000

   Convert to automotive service center-remove part.

3. May 1998

   Permit 9808129 $$$ $175,000

   Horizontal addition.

4. Oct 2000

   Permit 200010112737 $$$ $75,000

   Interior t.i including new partition walls, doors, hardware floring & finishes. fire sprinklers & al.

5. Oct 2000

   Permit 200010314462 $$$ $1,750,000

   Conversion of approx 35, 000 sq ft of existing auto service area into new office spc addition of appr.

6. May 2001

   Permit 200105219678 $$$ $400,000

   Mechanical shell work, ele. & plumbing under sep. permit, arch. & struct under appl#200010314462.

7. Jul 2001

   Permit 200107063094 $$$ $3,000,000

   Interior t/i on 2 floors new partitions/new ductwrk & lighting new finishes new equipment new stairs.

8. Jul 2001

   Permit 200107163700 $$$ $36,000

   Install new 1st floor sprinkler system (249 heads) and at core/shell improvements on both floors.

9. Aug 2001

   Permit 200108276922 $$$ $45,000

   Fire sprinkler tenant improvements-add/relocate 103 heads to new ceilings from exist 1n plugged outl.

10. Dec 2001

    Issued Permit M18158 $$$ $1,750,000

    Street space.

11. Jul 2002

    Permit 200207111133 $$$ $10,000

    Added mechanical system for server room on 1st floor.

12. Aug 2002

    Permit 200208305338 $$$ $60,000

    Rev. to phase 1 of 200201257796; ti on 2 floors, bathrm, partitions, doors finishes, lighting & mechanical.

13. Mar 2009

    Permit 200903174310 $$$ $86,000

    Reroofing.

14. Aug 2010

    Permit 201008098349 $$$ $10,000

    Respond to nov# 201052266. life safety upgrades only. no change of use under this permit. work consists of bracing & movable partitions, handrails, doors & disabled access.

15. Dec 2010

    Permit 201012166828 $$$ $80,000

    Provide complete general alarm notification to the existing sprinkler monitoring system- 8 indiating devices, 134 notifacation.

16. Dec 2010

    Issued Permit 201012176889 $$$ $60,000

    80x200x10. temp membrane structurak erected for five days.

17. Jan 2011

    Permit 201101128258 $$$ $10,000

    Interior renovations to existing cafe (450th).

18. Mar 2020

    Filed Permit 202003025891 $$$ $75,000

    Priority process - pursuant to case #2008.0586, change use of 601 brannan to last legal use of general office to post-secondary educational institutinal. abate/close enforcement cases 9114 & 2015-012595. conditional use authorization requested to institute post-secondary educational services use in.

DBI holds 62 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 62. 5 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 7 expired permits are not shown.