Marina Businessman Carmignani Sells FiDi Building, Averting Foreclosure

At 214 California St. in the Financial District, the Italian restaurant now called Grasso SF is still seating diners, but the man who opened it is gone. Don Carmignani, the Marina businessman who made national headlines in 2023 after a brutal confrontation with a homeless man, sold the building just weeks before it was scheduled to be auctioned in foreclosure, according to public records viewed by the San Francisco Chronicle.

The property was purchased by 2012-4 California LLC, an entity registered to Robert Satrap, who is affiliated with the San Rafael-based painting and drywall company Russell Hinton Co. Both companies share the same address. A 26-year lease agreement was forged between the new owner and the drywall company, public records show. An employee confirmed to the Chronicle that the building has sold and that Carmignani is no longer involved with the eatery.

Carmignani's time at 214 California had been a pivot of sorts. In late 2023, months after the Marina District incident landed him on the front pages, he received a liquor license for Il Porcellino Grasso, a new Italian eatery at the address. The same building also housed his cannabis dispensary, 2ONE2 California Dispensary. The restaurant rebranded as Grasso SF and remains open; the dispensary appears to have shuttered, with its website down and its Yelp listing marked permanently closed.

The sale fits a broader pattern documented in public records: Carmignani has sold off several San Francisco properties over the past decade. That includes what records describe as a single-family home in the Marina District, sold in 2024. That same year, he purchased a home in Reno, Nevada.

The Chronicle attempted to reach both Carmignani and Satrap and did not hear back. No sale price for 214 California St. was available in public documents at the time of reporting.