725–727 Geary Street

1. 1907

   Built as store and rooming house with 28 rooms and 9 baths, to the design of the architects Banks and Copeland. Two storeys over a basement, brick structure, stucco facade, two-part commercial composition, Renaissance/Baroque ornamentation.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
2. October 1971

   The building was operating as the Lyle hotel, a residential hotel whose 23 units showed 5 vacancies.

   URS Research Company / Arthur D. Little, Inc., Yerba Buena Center Public Facilities and Private Development: Environmental Impact Report (draft), prepared for the City and County of San Francisco, 1973.
3. Jan 1983

   Permit 8300525 $$$ $1,500

   Enlarge show window, add new entrance, etc.

4. Mar 1986

   Permit 8603637 $$$ $8,000

   Parapet.

5. Dec 1998

   Reinstated Permit 9826019 $$$ $80,000

   Seismic upgrd work &disability work to unreinforced building ord.

6. Jun 2004

   Issued Permit 200406025334 $$$ $25,000

   Remove batrhrub, add shower, remove wall to open up lobby.

7. Jul 2004

   Permit 200407088327 $$$ $8,961

   0.

8. Dec 2004

   Issued Permit 200412030683 $$$ $1

   Reduce scope of work. revert back to existing condition of lobby. revision to permit application 2004/06/02/5334.

9. Oct 2005

   Issued Permit M34619

   Streetspace.

10. Apr 2019

    Permit 201904016770 $$$ $1,000

    Recommencement and completion of work approved under permit application 2017-0906-7112.

11. Sep 2019

    Issued Permit 201909202255 $$$ $25,000

    Code compliance or violations 201798811 create hallwy that will open up the rear fire escape for all tennants//this shall be a rated hallway.

12. Sep 2023

    Issued Permit 202309116313 $$$ $15,000

    Per ordinance 51-16, abe 201912029053. remove 4" step. ada entrance door, push buttons, & ramp at 1" to 12" max. remove existing door and existing windows for ada entrance.

13. Sep 2023

    Issued Permit 202309287631 $$$ $1

    To comply with accessible business entrance program per ordinance 51-16. to request for technicial infeasibility. new ada entrance and list cannot be done due to lack of space and existing bearing wall. abe201912029053.

4 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits are omitted from the timeline. 7 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.