In the biggest SF home sale of 2022, a mansion has reportedly been bought by Manchester United owners
A red-brick mansion on the ridge of Pacific Heights just sold for $34.5 million, making it the most expensive home sale in San Francisco so far this year.
Just days after the sale of Mark Zuckerberg’s Liberty Hill home claimed the same titlethe sale of this mansion on the prestigious Gold Coast stretch of Broadway has taken over.
The buyer of the property at 2790 Broadway, an LLC named Sprinkle Wonderland, is linked to the billionaire Glazer family, reports The Real Deal. The LLC closed the 12,000 square foot mansion on July 11 records show. That shakes out at a cost of around $2,840 per square foot for the 14-room home.
The Glazer siblings – Avram, Joel, Kevin, Bryan, Darcie and Edward – own 2020 Super Bowl champions Tampa Bay Buccaneers and English soccer giants Manchester United. Their father, First Allied Corporation founder Malcolm Glazer, had an estimated fortune of $4.7 billion when he died in 2014. according to Forbes.
Built in 1927, the Beaux Arts Residence was designed by architect Arthur Brown Jr., responsible for San Francisco City Hall and Opera House. Its first residents included Frank Fuller Jr., heir to the Whittier and Fuller paint and glass fortune. The address made headlines in 1928 when Fuller crashed his small plane in Monterey, killing two passengers. Fuller narrowly survived and returned home to Pacific Heights.
2790 Broadway, San Francisco.
Google EarthIt was then inhabited by the American ambassador to Italy, the industrialist James D. Zellerbach. His dispatches on the state of communism in Europe in the late 1950s were avidly covered by the press, often accompanied by a photo of Zellerbach in his office in the mansion, overlooking the bay.
The mansion was recently home to famous art collectors Norah and Norman Stone, who filled the space with sculptures by Jeff Koons and other works of modern art. When the sprawling living space couldn’t hold any more art, the couple built a 6,000-square-foot “art cave” on their Napa Valley estate, according to Architectural Digest, which profiled the house and the couple in 2016. Norman Stone died last year.
Despite a cooling market in San Francisco, the past two months have seen a flurry of activity at the top. Ahead of the $31 million sale of Zuckerberg’s Mission home, the city saw its most expensive condo sale ever when former Secretary of State George Shultz’s two Russian Hill penthouses were sold. sold for $29 million last month.
If the Glazers move to the prestigious stretch of the Gold Coast, they will be within blocks of new neighbors Larry Ellison, Marc Benioff and Senator Dianne Feinstein,