Contractor, Pacheco License 570031
Richlen Construction
The city has issued 313 of the 316 San Francisco building permits that name Richlen Construction since 2018. The work is mostly commercial, led by offices. Their median plan-review permit for offices took 5.3 months from filing to issue, 36% slower than the citywide median. Their busiest neighborhoods are Financial District/South Beach, Chinatown and Bayview Hunters Point.
- Also filed as
- designer
- Issued by the city
- 313 of 316 filed since 2018
- Median plan-review time, offices
- 5.3 mo city median 3.9 mo
- Rank for offices
- No. 11 of 94 by offices issued
- Overall rank
- No. 20 of 226 contractors
What they work on
Every San Francisco building permit with Richlen Construction on the record since 2018, by project type. Most filed: 297 offices, 9 hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial, 6 restaurants and bars.
Residential and commercial, by permits filed
- Offices Commercial 294 of 297 issued 94% of filings.
- Hotels, clinics, schools and other commercial Commercial 9 of 9 issued 3% of filings.
- Restaurants and bars Commercial 6 of 6 issued 2% of filings.
- Apartments and multifamily Residential 4 of 4 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
- 2018
- 50 permits filed
- Latest filing
- Oct 2026
- 99% of 316 issued
One building per year, its height the permits filed. Each floor line marks 10 permits; the 2026 building is dashed because it counts permits filed through October 20, 2026.
Issued by the city: 313 of 316 permits filed
All San Francisco project permits since 2018 in this data
3 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. Richlen Construction has 6 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.
Richlen Construction, offices
5.3months
That is 36% slower than the citywide median for offices.
3 firms with medians over 9 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.
- 18 Magnum Construction Group Inc 321
- 19 Reliable Construction Inc 316
- 20 Richlen Construction 313
- 21 Sft Construction Corp 311
- 22 Ps2 Inc 310
All permits issued, 226 contractors Full ranking
- 9 Field Construction Inc. 334
- 10 Sabah International Incorporated 329
- 11 Richlen Construction 294
- 12 Pribuss Engineering Inc 210
- 13 Dpr Construction 194
Offices issued, 94 contractors
Where they work
The neighborhoods where Richlen Construction files the most permits, and how many contractors count each one among their top 4 neighborhoods.
- 01 Financial District/South Beach 49 contractors count Financial District/South Beach among their busiest neighborhoods
- 02 Chinatown 27 contractors count Chinatown among their busiest neighborhoods
- 03 Bayview Hunters Point 22 contractors count Bayview Hunters Point among their busiest neighborhoods
- 04 Tenderloin 20 contractors count Tenderloin among their busiest neighborhoods
Questions for the first call
- Which of your recent San Francisco permits are closest to my project in type, size and neighborhood, and can I see the permit numbers?
- How long did those permits take from filing to issue, and what did plan check send back?
- Who on your team draws the set, who stamps it, and who answers the city's comments?
Other contractors for offices
Firms ranked near Richlen Construction by permits issued for offices.
- 8 Hathaway Dinwiddie Co. 499 offices issued · 4.4 mo median for offices
- 9 Field Construction Inc. 334 offices issued · 4.2 mo median for offices
- 10 Sabah International Incorporated 329 offices issued · 1.4 mo median for offices
- 12 Pribuss Engineering Inc 210 offices issued · 1.3 mo median for offices
- 13 Dpr Construction 194 offices issued · 7.6 mo median for offices
- 14 Swinerton Builders 192 offices issued · 3.4 mo median for offices
- Sheet
- C-020 No. 20 of 226
- Drawing
- Permit record, Richlen Construction
- Contractor, Pacheco
- License
- 570031 check with CSLB
- Source
- San Francisco DBI building permits, since 2018
- 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 Richlen Construction has not paid to be listed. Project addresses are never shown.
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