(Pre) Development Watch: Reincarnation at Columbus and Powell
Monday, April 14, 2008, by Sarah Hromack

---

Following last week's reader query, North Beach neighbor Towse schooled us on the history of the building at the corner of Columbus and Powell, built in 1909 as the Washington Square Theater, it has subsequently been reborn as several other theaters, a taqueria, apartments, and even a 24-hour Rite Aid— this was pre-Peskin, of course— before resigning to its current state of dilapidation. Now, we place the eyesore on (Pre) Development Watch: According to the following (anonymous!) reader, however, the building won't be lying dormant for long:

As a neighbor within the right distance, I got a notice from the city a couple months ago about this building saying that the owners are undertaking an environmental impact study based on a new proposed plan to put restaurant space on the ground floor and 17 residential units above. Parking for the 17 units below ground. Most of the units will be 2 bedrooms with a couple of three bedrooms thrown in.

Neighbors, developers, and NIMBY's alike— who's got the deets?
· Ask Curbed SF: Graf Can't Mask North Beach Eyesore [Curbed SF]

---

All set here? Continue enjoying Curbed SF...
« On the Market: Glass, Glass, Glass at 30 Villa Terrace | Home | Ask Curbed SF: Calling All Gutter Punks to 3587 Clay Street »

Back to top

www.flickr.com More photos in Curbed SF

Links
SF Blogs & Media
SFist [RSS]
SF Bay Guardian
Guardian's SF Blog [RSS]
Beyond Chron [RSS
SF Examiner [RSS]
SF Gate [RSS]
SF Gate Culture Blog [RSS]
Metroblogging SF [RSS]
SF Weekly [RSS]
Valleywag [RSS]

Neighborhood Blogs & Community Media
Barbary Coast News [RSS]
Bernal Blog [RSS]
bluoz [RSS]
Civic Center [RSS]
District Five Diary [RSS]
Fog City Notes [RSS]
Hayes Valley Nabe Assoc.
Laughing Squid [RSS]
The N-Judah Chronicles [RSS]
Noe Valley Voice
North of Panhandle Nabe Assoc. Blog [RSS]
NFT: San Francisco [RSS]
Potrero Hill, SF [RSS]
Rincon Hill Blog [RSS]
SF Luxe [RSS]
SFTaxiBlog RSS]
San Fran Voice [RSS]
Sparkletack: The SF History Project" [RSS]
7x7 Magazine Neighborhoods

Real Estate Blogs
Burbed [RSS]
SFcondo.org [RSS]
The Front Steps [RSS]
Matrix [RSS]
Patrick.net [RSS]
Property Lines [RSS] The San Francisco Real Estate Blog [RSS]
SocketSite™ [RSS]

Real Estate &
Planning Resources
BAREIS
Clean Offer
Green Key RE (SF Green Housing)
SF Chronicle Real Estate
SF Cityscape
SF MLS
SPUR: SF Planning and Urban Research Association
SF Planning Department
Trulia
The Value of Architecture
Zillow

Architecture & Urbanity
Archinect [RSS]
Architecture for Humanity
AIA San Francisco
City Comforts
BLDGBLOG [RSS]
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Critical Spatial Practice [RSS]
Cyberbia [RSS]
Death By Architecture [RSS]
Dwell Blog [RSS]
Eichler Network
Forum for Urban Design [RSS]
Future Feeder [RSS]
Inhabitat [RSS]
Materialicious [RSS]
Pruned [RSS]
The Architects Newspaper
Treehugger [RSS]
Tropolism [RSS]
World Changing [RSS]

Design & Shelter
Apartment Therapy SF [RSS]
Core77 [RSS]
Design Addict
Design Boom
Design Observer [RSS]
Design*Sponge [RSS]
Josh Spear [RSS]
Land + Living [RSS]
Make Magazine Blog [RSS]
MocoLoco [RSS]
NOTCOT [RSS]
Rebar
Shelteriffic [RSS]

About Curbed SF
From the Golden Gate to The Mission, in San Francisco, it all comes back to our neighborhoods: where we live, where we work, where we eat, and where we play. Covering real estate sales, rental prices, and news-making deals and much more, it's all on Curbed SF. More about Curbed SF...

Email Curbed SF

Full Content Feed

Archives
Select a category... 2007 Curbed Cup A. Quincy Jones About Curbed Adventures in Advertising Affordable Housing Architects Architects Links Architecture Ask Curbed SF Bars & Nightlife Bathrooms Bernard Maybeck Broker BlogWrap Bubble California: Elsewhere Cartography Cashing Out or In? Chan Watch City College City Life Claude Oakland Codes & Regulations Commercial Real Estate Condo Watch Construction Watch Culture Curbed Curbed Cup: San Francisco Curbed Inside Curbed LA Curbed National Curbed Obituaries Curbed SF Awards '07 Curbed SF Price Spotter Curbed SF Reader Comment Thread Curbed SF SWL 337 Planning Challenge CurbedWire Data Porn Demolitions Design & Shelter Destructoporn Development du Jour Development Watch Digital Real Estate Downtown Outreach Program East Bay East Bay: Berkeley East Bay: East Bay East Bay: Oakland Eater SF Eater Tastings Environment Environment/Global Warming Federal Building Finance/Interest Rates Floor Plan Porn Food & Drink Fun With Democracy Fun with Probate Games, Contests, and Polls Green Architecture & Design Greener Than Thou Gubernatorial Vision Holiday Special Hotels Interior Porn International Joe Esherick John Dickinson Kickbacks Kirk Hammett Landmarks Linkage Listings Market Analysis Marketing McMansions Media Mid-Century Modern Mint Plaza Museums National New Construction On the Market One Rincon Open House Report Open Houses Other Blogs Parking Parks/Public Spaces Politics Preservation Price Choppers! PriceSpotter Public Transit Quicklink Re-listed! Reading Entrails Real Estate for Rent Real Estate for Sale Real Estate Miscellany Real Estate Resources Real Estate Sold Real Estete Brokers Realtors Realty Porn Rent, Renters, Renting Restaurants Retail Rumblings & Bumblings Rumblings & Bumblings Schools Seawall Lot 337 SF SF: Bayview SF: Castro SF: Central Waterfront SF: Chinatown SF: Civic Center SF: Cole Valley SF: Corona Heights SF: Diamond Heights SF: Dogptach SF: Duboce Triangle SF: Embarcadero SF: Eureka Valley/ Delores Heights SF: Fillmore SF: Filmore SF: Financial District SF: Fisherman's Wharf SF: Glen Park SF: Golden Gate Park SF: Hayes Valley SF: Hunters Point SF: Japantown SF: Marin County SF: Marina SF: Mission Bay SF: Mission Bay SF: Mission Dolores SF: Nob HIll SF: Noe Valley SF: NoPa SF: North Beach SF: Pacific Heights SF: Peninsula SF: Potrero Hill SF: Presidio SF: Richmond SF: Rincon Hill SF: Russian Hill SF: Sea Cliff SF: SoMa SF: South Beach SF: South Park SF: The Embarcadero SF: The Haight SF: The Mission SF: The Presidio SF: The Richmond SF: The Sunset SF: The Tenderloin SF: Treasure Island SF: Twin Peaks SF: Union Square SF: Upper Market SF: Visitacion Valley SF: West Portal/St Francis SF: Western Addition Silicon Valley Skid Row Snapped SF Starchitecture Storefronting Sustainable Agriculture taxes That's Rather Hideous That's Rather Lovely The Catch The Catch The Curbed SF Awards The Curbed Solution The People's Guide The Ploy The Sea Ranch Title & Escrow Tommy Church Top Top Train Spotting Tranny Shack Transbay Terminal & Towers Transbay Transit Center Transportation Treasure Island Ugly Buildings Um, Fabulous! Urban Greening Urban Metamorphosis Urban Planning Victorians Visionary Retail Weekends When Architects Fib Where Are They Now? William Wurster Wine Country Year-end Look

Search Curbed SF

Curbed SF
Editor
Sarah Hromack

Contributing Editor
Jimmy Stamp

Logo/Banner Design
Khoi Uong

Publisher/GM
Kyle Crafton

Head of Technology
Eliot Shepard

Other Curbed Sites
San Francisco
Eater SF

New York
Curbed NY
Eater NY
Racked NY
The Beach (seasonal)

Los Angeles
Curbed LA
Eater LA


Contact Us
Email Curbed SF