26–50 Van Ness Avenue

1. 1908

   Recorded in the city's survey of the Van Ness Avenue automobile corridor as the White Garage and showroom; altered in 1964. Designed by MacDonald & Applegarth.

   Van Ness Auto Row Support Structures survey, adopted 2010
2. 1960

   A five-storey office building replaced a two-storey concrete commercial building here, part of the redevelopment moving up Market Street from the Civic Center.

   Market & Octavia Historic Context Statement, adopted 2007
3. Aug 1987

   Permit 8711286 $$$ $225,000

   Install non-bearing partitions, finishes, plumbing & electri.

4. Feb 2000

   Permit 200002182269 $$$ $220,220

   Oti-1, el, me, ls, 3rd floor.

5. Apr 2000

   Permit 200004076669 $$$ $384,100

   Oti-1 el me ls 2 floor.

6. Jun 2000

   Permit 200006273785 $$$ $348,300

   Oti-2, el, me, 2nd floor.

7. Mar 2001

   Permit 200103285454 $$$ $441,000

   Tenant improvement, new finishes, ceillings, partitions, doors, lights etc.

8. Dec 2003

   Permit 200312091899 $$$ $384,600

   Reroofing.

9. Apr 2009

   Issued Permit 200904035496 $$$ $126,200

   Life safty renovation which includes 335 smoke detectors, 25 addressable heat detectors, 19 duct detectors, 12 relays, 7 wall mounted speaker, 14 ceiling mounted speakers, 4 wall mount speake/strobes, 194 ceiling mounted speaker/strobes & 21 ceiling mounted strobes.

10. 2010

    Identified in the city's survey of the Van Ness Avenue automobile corridor but not formally evaluated on a state historic resource form.

    Van Ness Auto Row Support Structures survey, adopted 2010
11. Jun 2014

    Issued Permit 201406269651 $$$ $259,000

    3rd floor, ste 3900: the scope of work includes the selective demolition of existing office space and the construction of new interior tenant improvements, the new tenant improvements include offices and a conference room; maher n/a.

12. Dec 2019

    Issued Permit 201912139539 $$$ $230,000,000

    Existing walls to remain - new high rise building with appoxi 853, 400 gsf/515'-4" tall with family/office mixed use type 1 construction. including a grd floor residential lobby, 5000 s.f. retail space, 2 below grade basement parking, 7 levels of office with terraces, residences from level 11-47. total 348 units.

13. Dec 2020

    Permit 202012221577 $$$ $750,000

    Alteration to remove floors & walls per drawings. reference permit application 201912139539.

14. Mar 2021

    Issued Permit 202103227002 $$$ $1

    Temporary shoring + excavation consisting of an internally braced csm shoring wall. ref permit application 201912139539.

15. Aug 2022

    Issued Permit 202208100237 $$$ $1

    Rev 202103227002: supplemental level 3 bracing of existing support of excavation system for extended design live. nc 4.7.25.

DBI holds 208 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 208. 5 of them are nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permits. 13 expired or cancelled permits are not shown.