Belvedere's Lava House Site, a 2.75-Acre Lot With No House, Is Listed for $30 Million
The four parcels at 399, 401, 415 and 419 Belvedere Avenue are being sold together, with views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco skyline. A Chicago seat-belt magnate spent two decades trying to build a house there.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Vineyards in Napa Valley in autumn. Photo: Brocken Inaglory / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
At the southern tip of Belvedere Island, a slope covered in black lava rock is listed for $30 million, with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco skyline — but no house, SFGATE reported.
Known as the Lava House site, the four parcels at 399, 401, 415 and 419 Belvedere Ave. are being sold together. They cover about 2.75 acres, putting the asking price at nearly $11 million an acre. A Chicago seat-belt magnate spent two decades trying to build a house there, the site reported.
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