Historic Firehouse to Become New Dogpatch Restaurant, Someday

From GrubStreet.com,

Local tech entrepreneur Wayne de Geere (a Web 1.0 millionaire) recently purchased Firehouse Station #16, the 1925 structure at 20th and Tennessee in Dogpatch. The Scoop reports that he's looking to put a restaurant on the ground floor, with two residential units above, after some significant renovations of course. But yes, Dogpatch is hot, and any chefs who think they'll be in the market for a job in 2011 or later should be pricking up their ears.

Writes SFGate's Inside Scoop,

Firehouse Station #16 in the Dogpatch was built in 1925, but has been dark the last several years. Last week, the historic brick building at 909 Tennessee Street was purchased for $1.3 million.

The buyer is Wayne de Geere, a local tech entrepreneur guy who did quite well in the first dot-com boom.

But here’s where it gets interesting — at least for Inside Scoop and restaurant industry purposes. Reportedly, de Geere wants to install a restaurant on the ground floor and two residential units above.

You hear that, restaurateurs and chefs? Everyone says the Dogpatch is — or is going to be — the new hotness, and that brick building could be a very interesting space. The caveat is that it still needs to be rezoned and a 2010 appraisal said it needed “significant repairs for any type of use.”