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Architect, San Francisco License C9223

Huntsman

The city has issued 560 of the 587 San Francisco building permits that name Huntsman since 2018. The work is mostly commercial, led by offices. Their median plan-review permit for offices took 6.6 months from filing to issue, 68% slower than the citywide median. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, Chinatown and Mission Bay.

Also filed as
designer, engineer, permit expediter
Issued by the city
560 of 587 filed since 2018
Median plan-review time, offices
6.6 mo city median 3.9 mo
Rank for offices
No. 2 of 372 by offices issued
Overall rank
No. 4 of 1,543 architects and designers

What they work on

Every San Francisco building permit with Huntsman on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 558 offices, 11 apartments and multifamily, 8 retail and shops.

Residential and commercial, by permits filed

2% residential
98% commercial
Permits by project type, filed and issued
  1. Offices Commercial 534 of 558 issued 95% of filings.
  2. Apartments and multifamily Residential 11 of 11 issued 2% of filings.
  3. Retail and shops Commercial 7 of 8 issued 1% of filings.
  4. Restaurants and bars Commercial 5 of 5 issued 1% of filings.
  5. Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 2 of 4 issued 1% of filings.
  6. Home remodels Residential 1 of 1 issued <1% of filings.

Permits over time

Permits filed each year, drawn as a street with one building per year, and how many of all their permits the city has issued.

Busiest year
2019
144 permits filed
Latest filing
Oct 2026
95% of 587 issued
Permits filed per year: 2018: 87, 2019: 144, 2020: 61, 2021: 38, 2022: 67, 2023: 53, 2024: 46, 2025: 55, 2026: 36. The 2026 figure runs through October 20, 2026.

One building per year, its height the permits filed. Each floor line marks 20 permits; the 2026 building is dashed because it counts permits filed through October 20, 2026.

Issued by the city: 560 of 587 permits filed

95%

All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data

93% issued

27 not issued as of October 20, 2026. Source: SF Department of Building Inspection permits via DataSF.

How fast their permits come through

Filing to issue for permits that went through plan review. Huntsman has 16 of those across all project types; the citywide comparison is for offices, their most filed type, where 1,360 of 26,216 permits went through plan review and the rest were approved over the counter.

Huntsman, offices

6.6months

That is 68% slower than the citywide median for offices.

Median months from filing to issue for plan-review permits. Huntsman, offices: 6.6 months. San Francisco, offices: 3.9 months. Middle half of city permits: 1.8 to 8.1 months.
6.6 months for offices, faster than 15 of 44 other architects and designers ranked for offices that have a median for it Each circle is a firm's median for its plan-review permits for offices. Dashed line: the median of all San Francisco plan-review permits for offices, 3.9 months. Shaded: the middle half of those permits, 1.8 to 8.1 months.
0 3 6 9 12 15+ months Revel Architecture & Design: 4.9 months Gensler: 5.4 months Rmw: 3.5 months Asd | Sky: 2.6 months Brereton Architects: 3.4 months Forge Architecture: 8.2 months Smith Group: 2.7 months Studios Architecture: 7.2 months Costa Brown Architecture: 12.1 months Ia Interior Architects: 7.7 months Rapt Studio: 9.6 months Som: 2.4 months Msa Architecture+Design: 5.0 months Perkins & Will: 5.1 months Tmda: 2.6 months Woods Bagot: 4.2 months Maccracken Architects: 19.3 months Dowler Gruman Architects: 6.5 months Hok: 4.9 months Gensler Architect: 5.9 months Quezada Architecture Inc: 6.4 months Mbh Architects: 14.7 months Michael Castro: 5.5 months Tef Design: 13.6 months Wrns Studio: 8.1 months Russell + Lopes Architects: 7.5 months Vocon: 5.1 months Bohlin Cywinski Jackson: 10.3 months Mbh: 3.7 months Shubin Donaldson: 5.4 months Polytech Assoicates: 2.5 months Mithun: 4.3 months Archtectural Resources Group: 4.1 months Brick: 4.6 months Ssdp: 5.2 months Studio Architecture: 14.9 months Page & Turnbull, Inc.: 8.5 months Red Cloud Wireless: 5.5 months Stantec Architecture Inc.: 18.6 months Pacific Das: 2.3 months Natoma Architects Inc.: 10.3 months Atelier 424: 2.6 months Studio Gang Architects: 2.9 months Owow Design: 4.3 months Huntsman 0 3 6 9 12 15+ months Revel Architecture & Design: 4.9 months Gensler: 5.4 months Rmw: 3.5 months Asd | Sky: 2.6 months Brereton Architects: 3.4 months Forge Architecture: 8.2 months Smith Group: 2.7 months Studios Architecture: 7.2 months Costa Brown Architecture: 12.1 months Ia Interior Architects: 7.7 months Rapt Studio: 9.6 months Som: 2.4 months Msa Architecture+Design: 5.0 months Perkins & Will: 5.1 months Tmda: 2.6 months Woods Bagot: 4.2 months Maccracken Architects: 19.3 months Dowler Gruman Architects: 6.5 months Hok: 4.9 months Gensler Architect: 5.9 months Quezada Architecture Inc: 6.4 months Mbh Architects: 14.7 months Michael Castro: 5.5 months Tef Design: 13.6 months Wrns Studio: 8.1 months Russell + Lopes Architects: 7.5 months Vocon: 5.1 months Bohlin Cywinski Jackson: 10.3 months Mbh: 3.7 months Shubin Donaldson: 5.4 months Polytech Assoicates: 2.5 months Mithun: 4.3 months Archtectural Resources Group: 4.1 months Brick: 4.6 months Ssdp: 5.2 months Studio Architecture: 14.9 months Page & Turnbull, Inc.: 8.5 months Red Cloud Wireless: 5.5 months Stantec Architecture Inc.: 18.6 months Pacific Das: 2.3 months Natoma Architects Inc.: 10.3 months Atelier 424: 2.6 months Studio Gang Architects: 2.9 months Owow Design: 4.3 months Huntsman

2 firms with medians over 15 months are drawn at the right edge.

Where they rank

Ranked by permits the city has issued since 2018, first across every project type, then for offices alone.

  1. 2 Xie Associates 628
  2. 3 Gensler 591
  3. 4 Huntsman 560
  4. 5 Rmw 488
  5. 6 Asd | Sky 406

All permits issued, 1,543 architects and designers Full ranking

  1. 1 Revel Architecture & Design 621
  2. 2 Huntsman 534
  3. 3 Gensler 457
  4. 4 Rmw 431
  5. 5 Asd | Sky 372

Offices issued, 372 architects and designers Offices ranking

Where they work

The neighborhoods where Huntsman files the most permits, and how many architects and designers count each one among their top 4 neighborhoods.

  1. 01 Financial District/South Beach 386 architects and designers count Financial District/South Beach among their busiest neighborhoods
  2. 02 Chinatown 127 architects and designers count Chinatown among their busiest neighborhoods
  3. 03 Mission Bay 109 architects and designers count Mission Bay among their busiest neighborhoods
  4. 04 South of Market 216 architects and designers count South of Market among their busiest neighborhoods

Questions for the first call

  1. Which of your recent San Francisco permits are closest to my project in type, size and neighborhood, and can I see the permit numbers?
  2. How long did those permits take from filing to issue, and what did plan check send back?
  3. Who on your team draws the set, who stamps it, and who answers the city's comments?

Other architects and designers for offices

Firms ranked near Huntsman by permits issued for offices.

  1. 1 Revel Architecture & Design 621 offices issued · 4.9 mo median for offices
  2. 3 Gensler 457 offices issued · 5.4 mo median for offices
  3. 4 Rmw 431 offices issued · 3.5 mo median for offices
  4. 5 Asd | Sky 372 offices issued · 2.6 mo median for offices
  5. 6 Brereton Architects 370 offices issued · 3.4 mo median for offices
  6. 7 Interior Architects 179 offices issued

See all 372 architects and designers ranked for offices

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Drawing
Permit record, Huntsman
Architect, San Francisco
License
C9223 check with CAB
Data as of
Oct 2026
Scale
Not to scale

Built only from public San Francisco Department of Building Inspection records (permits, permit contacts), updated 2026-10-20. It is not a review or an endorsement, and Huntsman has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.

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