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District 6 · Block 3703, Lot 076 · ZIP 94103

Union Furniture Store

1017–1019 Market Street

  • Office building
  • 6 stories
  • 77,225 ft2
  • 10,123 ft2 lot area
  • 8 rooms
  • 20 bathrooms
  • Zoned C3G
  • Historic resource
  • Sold October 1, 2014
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  1. 1909

    Built.

  2. 1909

    Union Furniture Store, designed by Kenneth MacDonald Jr. and George Adrian Applegarth.

    Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
  3. 1960s

    The Donut Palace, an all-night eatery, traded here in the 1960s.

    Donna J. Graves and Shayne E. Watson, Citywide Historic Context Statement for LGBTQ History in San Francisco, San Francisco Planning Department, adopted by the Historic Preservation Commission November 18, 2015
  4. August 10, 1964

    Photographed, showing the Union Furniture Company.

    San Francisco Subjects Photograph Collection (SFP 162), San Francisco Public Library
  5. Jun 1984
    Permit 8405825 $$$ $3,440

    18" prejection awning to change face.

  6. Jun 1984
    Permit 8406537 $$$ $18,000

    Additions alterations or repairs.

  7. Aug 1991
    Permit 9115029 $$$ $40,000

    Reroofing.

  8. Sep 1997
    Permit 9717561 $$$ $200,000

    U. m. b. seismic retrofit.

  9. Nov 2012
    Permit 201211144258 $$$ $300,000

    Remove plaster from brick walls and ceiling. demolition corridor partitions, misc partitions remove doors and frames.

  10. Dec 2012
    Permit 201212055468 $$$ $650,000

    Building core improvement. renovate stairs enclosure, toilet & elevators; enclose rooms for new main eletrical service. future permits for sprinklers, fire alarm, mechanical, plumb & electrical submitted under separate permit. low rise building.

  11. Dec 2012
    Permit 201212115917 $$$ $90,000

    Replace all windows at reroofing building (southside) in kind, not visible from street.

  12. Jan 2013
    Permit 201301117798 $$$ $265,000

    Installtion of roof top mechanical equipment for future tenant improvement work.

  13. Feb 2013
    Permit 201302190463 $$$ $200,000

    Interior modifications, building shaft for future tenant use per 708 exception 7. create new floor openings between 1st floor and basement, rebuild front half of 2nd floor infilling openings and making floor one level. build new building lobby.

  14. Feb 2013
    Permit 201302281144 $$$ $125,000

    Replace 1st & 2nd fl storefront & entries on market st. enlarge & replace 1st fl windows on stevenson st.

  15. Mar 2013
    Permit 201303061620 $$$ $150,000

    Existing sprinkler system upgrade. install new back flow preventer and fire pump. ref app#201302190463.

  16. Mar 2013
    Permit 201303212740 $$$ $30,000

    Install new fire alarm system in core building.

  17. Apr 2013
    Permit 201304033713 $$$ $212,000

    Install 2 water source heat pumps, 3 exhaust fans, 28 fire smoke dampers. mechanical work for permit application 2012-1205-5468.

  18. May 2013
    Permit 201305298092 $$$ $189,000

    Tenant improvements to the 5th floor, includes construction of reception area, break area, one conference room.

  19. Jul 2013
    Permit 201307010885 $$$ $89,000

    Mechanical work for 201305298092. four heat pumps no fsds, over 2000 cfm. sprinklers and ls on sep permits. jjc.

  20. Dec 2013
    Permit 201312194666 $$$ $4,200,000

    Interior commercial tenant improvement & fit-out of existing building totalling approx 75, 000 sq ft. improvements comprise open office with distributed offices & mtg rms, pantrys, break area, new 1-story staircase element & storage rooms. (interim controls see attached).

  21. Dec 2013
    Permit 201312234932 $$$ $85,000

    Provide new pendent sprinklers for new ceilings in new tenant improvmenent rooms. modify existing upgright sprinklers at new full height interior partitons.

  22. Dec 2013
    Permit 201312275138 $$$ $800,000

    Install hvac system consisting of 45 water service heat pumps, 1 power exhaust fan, 2 split system heat pumps, 3 ceiling exhaust fans, 17 fsds, mechanical work for building permit appln #201312194666.

  23. May 2014
    Permit 201405206240 $$$ $28,000

    New fire alarm devices added to new tenant build out in an existing building to include: (2) power supplies (43) modules (16) smoke detectors (35) duct detectors (65) horn/strobes (10) strobes. ref p/a 201312194666.

  24. Nov 2014
    Permit 201411212279 $$$ $500,000

    Tenant improvement of existing 1-story commercial shell space to restaurant/cafe with beer and wine. new plumbing, electrical, new restrooms, office space for restaurant.

  25. Jan 2015
    Permit 201501276752 $$$ $8,000

    Sprinkler system t.i. dropped ceilings- protection above and below ceilings. add 23 heads and relocate 4- new end of line restraints. t.i. 201411212279.

  26. Feb 2015
    Permit 201502239003 $$$ $36,400

    Provide & install 2 water source nest pump systems including air distribution ducting, provide & install toilet exhaust system. work associated with t.i. permit application 201411212279.

DBI holds 44 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 44. 6 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 3 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.

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