101–105 Turk Street

1. 1906

   Built as the Grand Hotel, stores and mid-priced hotel with 123 baths and 156 rooms, to the design of the architect C. A. Meussdorffer. Brick structure, three-part vertical composition, Renaissance/Baroque ornamentation.

   National Register of Historic Places nomination, National Park Service
2. August 3, 1906

   Wittman, Lyman Company, Charles Stockholm, Van Emon Elevator Company and and others contracted to put up a four-storey brick building.

   The San Francisco Call, 3 August 1906, p. 11
3. July 17, 1907

   Otis Elevator Company contracted for one passenger elevator on a building for the Woodward Investment Company, at $2,515.

   The San Francisco Call, 17 July 1907, p. 15
4. 1970s

   The Turk Street Follies, a sex theatre.

   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
5. October 1971

   The Grand hotel at 57 Taylor Street was operating as a residential hotel, its 116 units showing 10 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.
6. Nov 1982

   Permit 8209225 $$$ $47,000

   Additions alterations or repairs.

7. Nov 1993

   Reinstated Permit 9320879 $$$ $250,000

   Urm upgrade per 92-225.

8. Jun 2013

   Permit 201306048610 $$$ $60,000

   Space #55-renovate existing vacant art gallery space into an art/music gallery. existing a-3 occup & existing gallery use & musical performances will added to space. tenant improvement include new walls, new theatrical trusses, new doors & renovation of elecl & mechanical systems. new occ load verification req.

9. Aug 2019

   Permit 201908209315 $$$ $181,000

   Volutary upgrade of fire alarm with like for like panel and addition of wireless low frequency sounders in all sleeping areas to meet code 1103.7.6.1 n/a for maher.

10. Jan 2021

    Permit 202101293628 $$$ $35,000

    One unit: rehabilitate existing kitcen, rehabilitate existing bathroom. install washer & dryer in existing closet. no framing work, no structural work.

11. Nov 2021

    Permit 202111293192 $$$ $60,000

    #334. convert existing kitchen to bedroom. relocate kitchen, rehab existing bathroom, install washer and dryer.

12. Nov 2022

    Filed Permit 202211035869 $$$ $30,000,000

    Erect a 18-story over one basement level, type i, mixed use building with 116 residential units and assembly.

13. Nov 2022

    Filed Permit 202211035866 $$$ $300,000

    Demolish an existing 1-story, type 5b, commercial building at 105 turk st address, as wll as surface parking in order to build a residential building on the property. existing 5-story residential building on the same lot to remain.

14. Apr 2023

    Issued Permit 202304185899 $$$ $252,599

    Alteration of sub-sidewalk basement roof slab to install new sidewalk.

15. Jun 2023

    Permit 202306210534 $$$ $15,000

    One unit: remodeling existing one kitchen. remodeling existing one bathroom. no moving walls. no exterior work.

DBI holds 114 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 114. 10 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 14 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.