Apple Cart Cider LLC registered a San Francisco business address at 640 Terry A. Francois Blvd with a declared May 2026 start date — but more than two months later, no alcohol license, building permit, or health permit for the Thrive City taproom appears in any public database.

Apple Cart Cider LLC — the legal entity behind Sonoma County craft cider brand Golden State Cider — registered a San Francisco business location at 640 Terry A. Francois Blvd, the Thrive City complex adjacent to Chase Center, with a declared start date of May 12, 2026, according to San Francisco business registration records. More than two months past that date, none of the permits required to legally serve alcohol there appear in public databases.

The California ABC shows no active or pending license for Apple Cart Cider LLC at the San Francisco address. The company's only documented ABC license — No. 00650518 — is tied to its Santa Rosa operation, with a listed expiration date of June 30, 2026. That date has already passed; whether the license was renewed does not appear in available records. The prior licensee at 640–650 Terry A. Francois was Mission Bay Wine & Cheese LLC, whose On-Sale General license (No. 00653279) expired October 31, 2025, per the California ABC database. No transfer or renewal to Apple Cart Cider LLC appears in public ABC filings. Under California law, a new operator must apply for its own license — it cannot inherit a departing tenant's. The ABC's standard review process routinely runs 60 to 90 days under favorable conditions.

No building or construction permits for a taproom buildout at the address appear in the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection's public tracking system, searchable by address at dbiweb02.sfgov.org/dbipts. San Francisco's Department of Public Health, which must approve food and beverage operations before opening, maintains no public-facing permit search portal, so that gap cannot be documented directly. The DBI record makes the point on its own.

Golden State Cider CEO Chris Lacey has run the company since Christopher and Ariel Jackson acquired it from founders Jolie Devoto and Hunter Wade in May 2022, per Brewbound. The company has not publicly announced a revised timeline for the Thrive City location.

A city business registration is a low bar — a fee and an address, not a license to pour. The two documents that would confirm this project is actually moving — an ABC application for Apple Cart Cider LLC at 640 Terry A. Francois, and a DBI permit for the buildout — are both absent from the public record. What to watch: whether an ABC application for the SF address surfaces in the state database, whether a DBI permit application follows, and whether the Santa Rosa license (No. 00650518) was renewed after its June 30 expiration or quietly allowed to lapse.