Once the site of Grant Elementary School—demolished after closing in the early 1970s for failing to meet earthquake-safety standards—a rare 0.4-acre parcel in San Francisco’s affluent Pacific Heights neighborhood now holds a modern compound with two residences and sprawling gardens.
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Nicola Miner, daughter of Oracle cofounder Robert Miner, and her husband, writer and filmmaker Robert Mailer Anderson, purchased three vacant parcels for around $5 million in 1999. The land, which stretches from Broadway Street to Pacific Avenue, was acquired from a developer who originally paid the city $13.6 million before subdividing the property…