$1.8M
paid to contractors for work here in FY2026 · preliminary
The War Memorial Opera House is an opera house in San Francisco, California, United States, located on the western side of Van Ness Avenue across from the west side/rear facade of San Francisco City Hall. Wikipedia ↗
301 Van Ness Ave · City-owned · 315,700 sq ft · District 5
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Contracts for work here
The 2 contracts paid in FY2026
War Memorial Opera House roof replacementPioneer Contractors Inc · 2025–2026 · $7.2M agreed$1.7M
Elevator modernization at War Memorial Opera HouseW.e. Lyons Construction Co. · 2025–2027 · $823,634 agreed$163,222
Who gets paid for this place
Paid in FY2026, 2 contractors.
Contracts only. The City's War Memorial and Performing Arts Center department runs it with the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall and the Veterans Building (Herbst Theatre): $30.2M adopted budget and 103 people paid $10.7M in FY2025.
In the archive
5 documents about it, at the Internet Archive.
1975An environmental report for the performing arts centre built on the parking lot south of the Opera House.
San Francisco Performing Arts Center : Van Ness Avenue and Grove, Franklin and Hayes Streets : final environmental impact reportFrom the Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library ↗1975The trustees' own statements of activities, itemising repairs from the gold curtain to the carpeting.
Statements of activities, past fiscal yearFrom the Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library ↗1965The 1965 rehabilitation study of the War Memorial Center by three architecture firms for the trustees.
Report on rehabilitation and modernization of San Francisco's War Memorial CenterFrom the Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library ↗1942A WPA anthology of music criticism on who filled the city's opera house and its treasury.
An anthology of music criticismFrom the Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library ↗1850A Federal Theatre Project history of the city's earlier opera houses and stages.
Annals of the San Francisco stage, 1850-1880, Volume 1 p.2From the Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library ↗Other cultural sites
