Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Auditorium
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium (auditorium, run by the City Administrator): $95,832 paid to contractors for work here, $287.7M budgeted for its department in FY2025, 1,154 employees on the payroll, 1 contract, 7 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. Archived documents cover the auditorium as a city convention and events venue, including a 1994 draft transition plan for the Department of Convention Facilities on the "Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and Brooks Exhibit Hall sites" and a 1965 study of the economic performance of the Civic Auditorium-Brooks Hall complex, alongside 2000 Finance and Labor Committee minutes on permits to operate there. It falls under the City Administrator (ADM), whose FY2025 budget line totaled $288M. An Arts Commission contract, "Papa-Civic Auditorium Main," records about $96K paid to Decker Electric Company. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.
Wikimedia Commons · Chad Cook · CC BY-SA 4.0Archived documents cover the auditorium as a city convention and events venue, including a 1994 draft transition plan for the Department of Convention Facilities on the "Bill Graham Civic Auditorium and Brooks Exhibit Hall sites" and a 1965 study of the economic performance of the Civic Auditorium-Brooks Hall complex, alongside 2000 Finance and Labor Committee minutes on permits to operate there. It falls under the City Administrator (ADM), whose FY2025 budget line totaled $288M. An Arts Commission contract, "Papa-Civic Auditorium Main," records about $96K paid to Decker Electric Company.
99 Grove St · City-owned · 113,437 sq ft · parcel 0812001 · District 6 · City Facilities registry
What the City actually paid, across 1 contractor. Contractors big enough to have their own page are linked; the rest are named only.
Every line opens that contract’s own page, with its spend curve and its subcontractors. Agreed amounts are ceilings, not spending.
Run by the City Administrator, whose whole-department budget is $287.7M across 1,154 staff (FY2025) — citywide, not this place’s own. The City does not publish a running cost per building.
A 1993 economic study of a proposed new Bay Area arena, which counted the Civic Auditorium as one of only three winter venues in the region — and reported that touring shows found it markedly less successful than Oakland.
Analysis of the economic impacts of a proposed new arena · 1993 ↗Internet Archive — Democracy's LibraryA 1994 environmental impact report for the new courts building, mapping the auditorium among the public buildings that frame Civic Center Plaza.
San Francisco Courts Building : final, environmental impact report · 1994 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansComments and responses on the draft courts building report, recording the seismic strengthening then planned for most major Civic Center structures.
San Francisco Courts Building : draft environmental impact report : draft summary of comments and responses · 1994 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansA 2001 environmental review of the administrative building at 525 Golden Gate Avenue, set within the Civic Center rebuilding that also produced the new Main Library.
525 Golden Gate Avenue city administrative building : final environmental impact report · 2001 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
See 2 more documents
- Draft transition plan for the Department of Convention Facilities : Civic Auditorium and Brooks Exhibit Hall sites · 1994 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
- The Economic performance of public facilities in Yerba Buena Center · 1965 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
1 procedural record — minutes, agendas, calendars — not listed.
