Moving/410 Clementina

Overview

• Building address is 260 5th St, quoted space opens on Clementina. The address is fuzzy, may be 400, 410, or 420 Clementina.
• pictures from 2009-07-22 visits
• quoted 7500 sf, subdividable. We discussed taking 5000sf.
• quoted $1/sf but they're willing to negotiate
• TMG, the owner, has much property in the soma/downtown area, including the former Cal Academy of Sciences building and the Burlington Coat Factory building across 5th street from this space
• space is on first floor, concrete plank floor with wood ceilings
• single extant bathroom is up a flight of stairs; owner is probably willing to build a bathroom in the space
• significant existing build-out:
  • multiple rooms with carpeted floors, one large concrete room with bare walls, plus a shop/dirty area near roll-up door
  • windows in odd places between rooms
  • server closet, with 30A outlets and installed UPS
• quoted space has a separate entrance door and a roll-up freight door.
• T1 installed, multiple PBX lines installed (PBXes still present I think).

Other Notes

• .32 miles (500m) from the nearest BART station
• Less food in the neighborhood than 83c.
• Safe-ish neighborhood at night. 6th street to be avoided...
• Owner brought price down upon review of our organization. Building is owned by a large real estate conglomerate, which may be willing to donate part of the space to NoiseBridge.
• Fibre in the building.
• Roof access sounds reliable and allowable.
• SOMA neighborhood may not jive with culture of NoiseBridge.
• Two art galleries as neighbors
• May be a future site of demolition, should the market turn around.
• Old HVAC system, may result in high maintenance costs.