The Asian Art Museum's civic record is the record of a building changing hands. In February 1990 the Asian Art Commission's executive committee endorsed a proposed Board of Supervisors resolution implementing the jurisdictional transfer of the Main Public Library building to the museum — the library was about to move across Civic Center. The environmental paperwork followed the transfer: a 1996 addendum extended the Main Library's environmental impact report, certified in 1992, to cover the museum project, and a full supplemental report was published for public comment in July 1998 with a hearing that August. The conversion permit, filed in May 1999, states the change without ceremony — "rehabilitation of old main library to new asian art museum" — at a declared construction value of $55 million. Work on the parcel has continued since: a $6.3 million renovation completed in 2018 added roughly 12,000 square feet of gallery space, and a $900,000 permit in 2022 replaced the pedestal paver system, stairs, ramps and handrails and repaired the waterproofing beneath.
Archive coverage for this place is limited — only 3 matched documents so far, so this summary stays short rather than padded.
200 Larkin St · City-owned · 185,000 sq ft · parcel 0353001 · District 5 · City Facilities registry
No city spending is recorded against this place by name. San Francisco publishes contracts, bond items and vendor payments at project level, and none of them names this site — so there is no figure to show, rather than a figure of zero.
Run by the Asian Art Museum, whose whole-department budget is $11.8M across 75 staff (FY2025) — citywide, not this place’s own. The City does not publish a running cost per building.
The 1998 draft supplemental environmental impact report for the museum project, published for comment that July.
Asian Art Museum : draft supplemental environmental impact report · 1998 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scansThe 1996 addendum extending the Main Library's certified environmental report to cover the museum conversion.
Asian Art Museum project : EIR addendum to the San Francisco Main Library FEIR · 1996 ↗Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library partnership scans
1 procedural record — minutes, agendas, calendars — not listed.
