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District 5 · Block 0332, Lot 004 · ZIP 94102

Olympic Hotel

230–232 Eddy Street · Tenderloin

  • 12 stories
  • 84,026 ft2
  • 7,906 ft2 lot area
  • 180 residential units
  • 225 rooms
  • 179 bathrooms
  • Zoned RC-4
  • Historic resource
  • Sold November 26, 2002
Photo of Olympic Hotel
Photo by Tichnor Brothers, Publisher, cropped, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
  1. 1927

    Assessor’s “built” date.

  2. 1928

    Olympic Hotel, designed by F. Frederic Amandes and Charles O. Clausen.

    Architecture, Planning & Preservation Professionals: A Collection of Biographies, adopted 2021
  3. 1928

    Built as the Olympic Hotel, mid-priced hotel with 225 rooms and 179 baths, dining room, lounges, parking garage, to the design of the architects Clausen and Amandes. Thirteen storeys over a basement, steel frame and concrete structure with stucco facade, three-part vertical composition, Renaissance/Baroque ornamentation.

    National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
  4. Oct 1983
    Permit 8310731 $$$ $25,000

    Install sprinkle & fire escaper.

  5. Oct 1986
    Permit 8613622 $$$ $12,000

    Come-off existing sprinkler system & sprinkler restaurant.

  6. Nov 1990
    Permit 9024232 $$$ $63,000

    Reroofing.

  7. Dec 2000
    Permit 200012087505 $$$ $11,500

    Provide new concrete and metal stair and landing to replace bottom portion of exist bridge connectio.

  8. Mar 2001
    Permit 200103235139 $$$ $4,000,000

    Renovations to existingbldg consisting of new-replacement windows, new roof, upgrades to plumbing, etc.

  9. Jan 2003
    Permit 200301084765 $$$ $35,000

    Previous app 200103235139 s1 add 187 heads to the residential units closet. fromex existing approved.

  10. Jan 2003
    Permit 200301165363 $$$ $48,000

    New fire alarm throughout.

  11. Oct 2006
    Permit 200610306383 $$$ $75,000

    Tic of existing commercial space to provide new office, upgrade mechanical system and add electrical outlets, phone jacks, computer hook ups.

  12. Dec 2006
    Permit 200612079336 $$$ $3,000

    Tenant improvement for respite center first floor, 2 add/relocate, 2 sprinkler heads.

  13. Feb 2007
    Permit 200702053383 $$$ $3,600

    Install 1 pull station, 1 smoke detector, 1 duct smoke detector, 2 horn/strobes, 2 strobes, devices being added to e fa system.

  14. Sep 2013
    Issued Permit 201309096293 $$$ $120,000

    Construct new structural concrete ramp -structural. remove existing concrete ramp.

  15. Aug 2015
    Permit 201508255230 $$$ $1,500

    1st & 2nd floors: add 3 fire sprinkler to unsprinkled rooms. maher na.

  16. Jul 2017
    Issued Permit 201707273122 $$$ $115,042

    Addition of (34) evacuated tub solar collectors, (1) 2900 gal solar storage tank, pumps and misc controls. existing plumbing permit pp20170321902.

  17. Nov 2017
    Permit 201711143971 $$$ $25,000

    Replacement of existing exterior stair landing with new, in-kind; stair & landing are required means of egress. n/a maher.

  18. Jul 2018
    Permit 201807245307 $$$ $350,000

    Addition of new ext bld maintenance system on the roof. no increase to cabinet or size of condiditoned space. per ab-093 table 1 green bld reqs of the sq ft green bld code do not apply.

  19. Sep 2018
    Permit 201809211110 $$$ $50,000

    Installation of emergency responder radio coverage system.

  20. Apr 2019
    Permit 201904178187 $$$ $10,000

    Connecting errcs system to existing fire alarm system.

  21. Aug 2019
    Permit 201908138705 $$$ $100,000

    Like for like replacement of existing fire alarm system.

  22. Aug 2019
    Permit 201908169048 $$$ $6,000

    Inkind repair of damaged 5'-long metal fire escape ladder at top and behind the parapet. repair in-kind ladder of existing fire escape behind parapet to roof, approx 5 feet in length. repair does not change existing egress, repair occurs behind southern parapet.

  23. Jun 2021
    Permit 202106081954 $$$ $10,000

    Sq ft errcs rebanding and equipment upgrade.

  24. Sep 2022
    Permit 202209222999 $$$ $1,000

    As-built rev to 2019-0813-8705 - add 2 smoke detectors per fire inspectors request in community room; replaced 7 existing power supplies like-for-like. no residential room will be removed, converted or demolished. replace mini horns with lf sounders to comply with sffc 1103.7.6.1.

  25. Jan 2023
    Permit 202301260775 $$$ $75,000

    (22) double hung windows in kind wood in wood out tod sash with ogee luggs. (windows are street facing).

DBI holds 28 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 28. 1 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 2 expired or cancelled permits are not shown. This building's context statement dates the work 1928; the assessor's roll records the parcel as built 1927.

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