2019 California Tax Incentive Rehabilitation Projects

Completed Tax Incentive Project Applications For FY 2019

COMPLETED APPLICATIONS	FY 19	FY 18	FY 17	FY 16	FY15	FY 14	FY 13	FY 12
Part 1	17	19	4	20	12	7	16	17
Part 2	15	23	15	8	6	7	14	30
Amendments	39	30	23	32	49	25	45	64
Part 3	9	3	10	5	7	15	10	8

TOTAL	80	75	52	65	74	54	85	119
REPRESENTED COUNTIES	11	10	9	19	6	11	10	12

COUNTIES WITH MAJORITY OF APPLICATIONS
COUNTY	PROJECTS
Los Angeles	27
San Francisco	24
24 Merced	7
Alameda	6

Melrose Baptist Church, Oakland

COUNTY	ADDRESS	CITY	OWNER	USE	CERTIFICATION	FLOOR AREA	QUALIFIED COSTS	TOTAL COST
Alameda	1638 47th Avenue	Oakland	2531 E. 16th Street LP	Residential	4/19/19	34, 173	$10,034,385	$12,275,653

The Melrose Baptist Church project includes the church, a school, a preschool and a residence. Only the church and school were determined to contribute to the significance of the property, although all plans for the property were reviewed.

Blaine and Olsen designed the church in a Spanish Revival style. It was built in two phases, a sanctuary in 1930 and a social hall with offices in 1939. Cecil Moyer designed the school building in the same style in 1949. After falling into disuse, the property has been repurposed as 57 apartments.

A notable feature of the project is that the sanctuary remains as a single unit to preserve its unique features.

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308/310 Tunnel Avenue, Richmond

COUNTY	ADDRESS	CITY	OWNER	USE	CERTIFICATION	FLOOR AREA	QUALIFIED COSTS	TOTAL COST
Contra Costa	308/310 Tunnel Avenue	Richmond	Martha Baeli	Apartment	3/22/19	2,700	$200,000	$340,000

This residence in the Point Richmond Historic District rehabilitated its rental apartment on the first floor and the owner residence above, with some work on the front and rear yards included. Only work to the rental unit was eligible to receive tax credits.

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Bank of Italy, Los Angeles

COUNTY	ADDRESS	CITY	OWNER	USE	CERTIFICATION	FLOOR AREA	QUALIFIED COSTS	TOTAL COST
Los Angeles	649 S. Olive Street	Los Angeles	649 South Olive LLC	Hotel	12/20/18	140,347	$90,222,823	$158,000,000

Built in 1928 in the Beaux Arts style, The Bank of Italy is significant in the area of commerce and finance for being the first purpose-built building for the Bank of Italy. It is also associated with Grace Stoermer, a female banking pioneer. It is additionally significant as an excellent example of the Beaux Arts style, designed by Morgan, Walls & Morgan.

After being vacant for several years, the office building has been repurposed as a hotel. The lobby has been restored after installation of modern seismic improvements, and the whole has retained its beaux arts presence in downtown Los Angeles.

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Commercial Exchange Building, Los Angeles

COUNTY	ADDRESS	CITY	OWNER	USE	CERTIFICATION	FLOOR AREA	QUALIFIED COSTS	TOTAL COST
Los Angeles	416-436 West 8th Street Street	Los Angeles	YSHRE LA LLC	Hotel	12/11/18	116,954 SF	$59,776,802	$59,776,802

The Commercial Exchange Building is significant for its association with the economic and social history of Los Angeles during the expansion of its core in the 1920s. It is further significant for being a distinguished example of the Renaissance Revival skyscraper style as part of major skyscraper development during L.A.’s economic growth. This historic rehabilitation also reused an office building as a hotel. The project features new storefronts compatible with the original style, a restored lobby with a vaulted polychrome sculpted ceiling, and retained marble-floored corridors with distinctive symmetrical side and transom lites at each doorway. Fun fact – in 1935 five feet were cut through the center of the building and the front half of the building moved back to facilitate wider sidewalks along Olive Street. The part removed is visible as a single line of windows on an Eighth Street façade of otherwise paired windows (inset).

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Grether & Grether

COUNTY	ADDRESS	CITY	OWNER	USE	CERTIFICATION	FLOOR AREA	QUALIFIED COSTS	TOTAL COST
Los Angeles	730 S. Los Angeles Street	Los Angeles	Duns Capital LLC	Residential	12/18/18	70,767	$16,225,855	$26,559,464

The Grether & Grether building is significant for its contribution to the industrial and commercial development of Los Angeles’ manufacturing district. It is also significant as an exemplary Beaux-Arts building designed by John Montgomery Cooper.
This mid-rise industrial building is adaptively reused for 72 apartment units. Character-defining features retained and restored include the light brown brick and cast stone base façade, repaired ceramic tile entrance floor, wood Chicago windows, and skylights at second story decks.

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Long Beach Professional Building

COUNTY	ADDRESS	CITY	OWNER	USE	CERTIFICATION	FLOOR AREA	QUALIFIED COSTS	TOTAL COST
Los Angeles	117 E. 8th Street	Los Angeles	Global Premier Regency Palms LP	Residential	6/6/19	64,089	$16,288,307	$28,867,254

The Long Beach Professional Building was built in 1929 and is individually listed on the National Register as an excellent example of a pre-Depression high rise art deco style tower. It’s original use was as professional offices but was repurposed as an assisted living facility early in the 21^st century. It has been rehabilitated as a 56 unit residential care facility. Original features repaired or restored include the art deco concrete façade, the elevator lobby, and remaining original windows. Inappropriate replacement windows and window infill is removed and replaced with compatible windows.

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Francis House

COUNTY	ADDRESS	CITY	OWNER	USE	CERTIFICATION	FLOOR AREA	QUALIFIED COSTS	TOTAL COST
Napa	1403 Myrtle Street	Calistoga	Richard and Dina Dwyer	Bed & Breakfast	12/18/18	4,890	$3,000,000	$4,500,000

Francis House was built in 1886 in the Second Empire style for James H. Francis, a Calistoga merchant and rancher. It is believed to be the only stone residence in Napa County, a material more commonly used in local wineries.
It was remodeled into a hospital in 1918, and functioned as Calistoga’s hospital until 1964. It remained unused and damaged from weather intrusion over time until only the stone exterior remained intact.
The project proposed reuse as a bed and breakfast, including new construction of support services on the property and amenities like an outdoor pool and outside dining. The project took advantage of its missing interior to expose the native stone inside.
The rehabilitation was well received in Calistoga as it provided a reuse for an otherwise rundown property.

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Gibb, Daniel & Company Warehouse

COUNTY	ADDRESS	CITY	OWNER	USE	CERTIFICATION	FLOOR AREA	QUALIFIED COSTS	TOTAL COST
San Francisco	855 Front Street	San Francisco	855 Front LLC	Office	5/16/19	16,473	$7,587,736	$8,181,592

The two story with basement brick warehouse was originally built in 1855 on flat landfill adjacent to the bay, which is now one block to the west. The warehouse was damaged in the 1906 earthquake, but was immediately repaired. Repair work is visible in photos from the two-tone brickwork on the façade.
It was used as a warehouse until 1972, when it was converted into offices. The current rehab proposed to retain the office use, but to open up the interior so more of it is visible, as the warehouse was originally.
The warehouse has retained many original features despite several iterations, such as metal door shutters and wood post and beam structure. The rehabilitation successfully opens up the interior through the use of glass office and conference walls and open stairs.

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Washington Firehouse

COUNTY	ADDRESS	CITY	OWNER	USE	CERTIFICATION	FLOOR AREA	QUALIFIED COSTS	TOTAL COST
Yolo	317 3rd Street	West Sacramento	D & S Development	Restaurant	2/4/19	6,400	$2,763,200	$2,883,200

The Washington Firehouse, completed in 1940, was designed in the Streamline Moderne style by George Sellon, who also served as the first California State architect. It functioned as a firehouse and then a police substation until the late 1980s. The space was available fore community meetings prior to the proposal for the current reuse, a ground floor restaurant with a bar and assembly space above.
The project makes good use of remaining features such as large overhead doors to open for inside-outside dining, plywood paneled walls, and curved Moderne tower.