A record-setting sale on Alta Plaza
IT’S BEEN THE most striking modern sculpture — or, depending on your perspective, the biggest eyesore — on Alta Plaza Park since it first appeared in 2006 at the top of the neighborhood. Now the home at 2606 Jackson, designed by star architect Olle Lundberg, is set to become the most expensive sale on the park as well.
The home — offered for $22.5 million just days ago for the first time since it was built — is already in contract, according to listing agents Stacey Caen and Joseph Lucier. [UPDATE: Final sale price: $24 million.]
Dog-walkers in the park had watched the home rise in the place of what had been two townhouses. “This is an extraordinary site,” Lundberg said at the time, “one of the best half dozen sites in San Francisco.” Nearly every room — and there aren’t many in this 7,000 square foot house — has views all the way through, from the park on the south to the bay on the north.
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The current home may be the most modern and most expensive, but it is not the first stately home in this location. Here is a look back through the ages at Victorian homes that once stood in that location.
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- Margaret H.December 28, 1969
Wonderful piece. I remember when the jazz clubs on Fillmore stayed open past two — this brought it all back. Thank you for keeping the memory of the neighborhood alive.
- David K.December 23, 1969
We've lived on Pine near Steiner for thirty-one years and it still surprises us how much this paper notices. Please keep going.
- Yuki T.December 15, 1969
A small correction — the mochi shop on Post opened in 1982, not 1985. My grandfather was there for the ribbon cutting. Love the coverage otherwise.
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