Billionaire’s Row is known as the three blocks of Broadway between Lyon and Divisadero streets in San Francisco, California, and right now it might be the world’s most elegant construction site.
Owned by the city’s elite, the strip of mansions has been undergoing quite the remodel as the high-profile owners show no sign of slowing down.
The question lies in what specifically these rich owners are reconstructing in their already glamorous homes, which could be a greater tell into how the rest of the nation’s remodeling market might soon be up to.
According to the San Francisco Standard, who covered each home undergoing construction services, Laurene Powell Jobs smashed the record for San Francisco’s most expensive home sale with her $71 million purchase on the Row in July. Now she’s making adjustments to the seven-bedroom mansion’s eating and washing spaces (kitchen and bathroom to you and me).
A permit for the remodel, which is estimated to cost $100,000, was issued Feb. 19. Jobs is known for her philanthropic investment firm, Emerson Collective, and contributions to the Democratic Party, including a $1.5 million donation to the Senate Majority PAC ahead of the 2016 election. Now, she is also the owner of what Architectural Digest described as “the most beautiful house in America.”
The previous owners, the Barnett family, hired Peter Marino, an architect known for modern buildings in New York and Tokyo. The result is a mix of contemporary and classic elements that doubled the property’s value. Apparently that wasn’t enough.
