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District 3 · Block 0288, Lot 014 · ZIP 94108

240–244 Kearny Street

Office building · Union Square

  • 10 stories
  • 16,630 ft2
  • 1,515 ft2 lot area
  • 3 residential units
  • 27 rooms
  • 9 bathrooms
  • Zoned C3O
  • Historic resource
Land$296,631
Improvements$608,081
Total assessed$904,712
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  1. 1906

    Built.

  2. 1979

    The Foundation for San Francisco's Architectural Heritage rated the Marston Building "B" in the 1979 downtown survey it published as Splendid Survivors — the second of its four grades, for buildings it judged individually important for their architecture, their history and their setting. The Department of City Planning's 1976 Architectural Inventory did not rate it.

    333 Bush Street draft initial study, SF Dept. of City Planning, 1981
  3. May 29, 1980

    The building was on the City Planning Commission's list of architecturally or historically significant buildings in the downtown, adopted May 29, 1980.

    San Francisco Department of City Planning, 333 Bush Street: Environmental Impact Report: Draft, 1982.
  4. Dec 1988
    Permit 8819252 $$$ $46,995

    Alterations & interior renovations.

  5. Dec 1988
    Permit 8819592 $$$ $2,000

    Remove store front- non bearing walls.

  6. Mar 1991
    Permit 9104535 $$$ $66,888

    Remove for use as deli add counter & kitchen equip g/f /bsmt.

  7. May 1991
    Permit 9108478 $$$ $4,000

    Install class 2 hood.

  8. Jun 1991
    Permit 9111182 $$$ $2,185

    Awning.

  9. Jul 1991
    Permit 9112226 $$$ $3,000

    Reroofing.

  10. Feb 2013
    Issued Permit 201302260975 $$$ $5,000

    Voluntary panel upgrade in fully sprinkled building. replace control panel at the same loction on like for like basis. replace 11 existing smoke detectors and 10 pull station with new at the same location. 10 existing horns will remain at the original location. local alarm only.

  11. Jun 2013
    Issued Permit 201306139430 $$$ $1

    As builts, remove smoke detector on 1st floor. remove waterflow switch from mezzanine floor, nollovac bell. add 3 smoke detectors on 3rd, 6th, 9th fl. electrical rooms as previously installed tie existing horns on 1 circuit. as builts to 201302260975.

  12. Apr 2016
    Permit 201604064132 $$$ $170,000

    Tenant improvement of existing ground floor & basement restaurant space. new, non-structural partitions & finishes, lighting, millwork & kitchen equipment.new plumbing, electrical & mechanical work.

  13. May 2016
    Permit 201605187755 $$$ $1,600

    As builts to ref pa 2013 0226 0975. install 2 relay & 2 monitor modules to tie-in. 2 duct detectores (installed by others) in the basement & 1st floor to tie into existing control panel. local system only.

1 nominal $1 street-space or sidewalk permit is omitted from the timeline. 2 expired permits are not shown. The draft EIR's survey figure calls the building the 'Harston Bldg.'; its Appendix B spells it 'Marston Bldg.'

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