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Published by the CENTRAL CITY Intersection san francisco studY CENTER fights to pull August 2 014 out of crisis $200,000 in debt, group slashes staff, manor cuts performances house delayed By M a rjor i e Beggs san francisco ntersection for the Arts turns Plumbing 50 next year, a venerable age for any I nonprofit, especially one that has incu- woes, more In the shadow of tech bated thousands of artists in all disciplines, helping them to get their art in front of postpone audiences. But before it hits that milestone, Inter- reopening section has run out of money to fund its most visible operations — resident artists’ Page 2 theater and music performances, visual arts exhibitions, and youth and communi- ty education programs. Board Chair Yancy Widmer and then-Interim Executive Director Arthur Combs on May 22 blasted an email to In- tersection’s 16,000 followers: “Our finan- cial situation is deeply challenged, and it has become apparent that the current business model is no longer sustainable.” Intersection had nine staff, but June 1 it furloughed three key program direc- tors and a communications assistant and stopped producing its own works, except for a handful that were already in the pipe- line. The city’s oldest alternative arts space — where James Broughton and Allen Gins- berg read poetry, Spalding Gray did mono- logues and Robin Williams honed his com- edy shticks — is facing an uncertain future. So far, the only good news is that the 124 incubator arts projects are unlikely to be affected. Intersection serves as their fiscal spon- sor, a tax-exempt nonprofit tech bus “This may be that manages non-exempt firms' fee just another organizations’ finances and gives their donors tax-de- kicks in path in our ductibility for any contri- butions. It’s a way to launch trajectory.” new arts projects, sustain Tariff triples temporary ones and help Illustration Lise Stampfli Deborah Cullinan more established ones get with more Former Executive director firmer organizational foot- It’s been over three years since the Twitter tax break triggered a tech run on the central ing. parking cops city. Now, all of Market Street’s midsection falls under tech’s shadow. But not the Tenderloin. The projects do their own fundraising. Intersection, a fiscal spon- on duty sor since 1977, charges them 8% of the Page 3 grants, donations and contributions they receive as an administrative fee. Galeria de la Raza, Litquake and San Francisco Blues Snapshot of change Festival are among the groups Intersection has sponsored. “Intersection is fragile right now, but In central city, only the scary all our fiscal sponsor projects are safe,” Widmer told 150 supporters, project staff, board members and funders who TL is resisting gentrification convened July 15 to have “A Community Conversation” about Intersection’s future. By Jonat h a n New m a n a n d Geoff L i n k Twenty-five years later, traffic was “The money we manage for the projects blocked and the street dug up to build BART. was never in danger.” he health and vitality of the Market Street’s midsection — the sev- Randy Rollison, Intersection interim city for 175 years has been measured en-block stretch from Fifth Street to Van T by the pulse of Market Street — the Ness Avenue — saw a four-decade decline, 3-mile-long municipal artery stretching marked by empty buildings and closed from the Embarcadero to Twin Peaks. Early storefronts, from the ’70s till now. settlers called it the Path of Gold when Sier- That same stretch — dubbed Central ra miners with flakes of ore dropping from Market in a bland mix of bureaucratic and their bulging pockets trundled the street’s real estate parlance — has become the mea- plank walkways. sure of San Francisco’s renewed vigor, glow- It survived the 1906 quake and fire and ing from the self-proclaimed civic wisdom proudly supported the great rebuilding, site of tax breaks and economic strategies, ener- of Phelan, Flood and Palace edifices. gized by a concentration of newly located The l920s and ’30s brought playhouses tech companies and their expanding work- and grand movie palaces to the thorough- forces. fare. Some saw the flashing lights of the Market Street, in this early 21st century marquees and called it the Broadway of the decade that is dominated by tech, has tak- West. en on a new identity with a fresh-scrubbed, Photo Allen Willner When Jack Kerouac stumbled from the suburban personality that is rubbing off on Resident artist Aaron Davidman's solo Greyhound station on Seventh in the late the central city. This is a snapshot of that production, “Wrestling Jerusalem,” pre- ’40s he wrote of all-night cafeterias, pinball change three-plus years into the Twitter tax miered at Intersection in March. arcades and a vivid street scene throbbing break that triggered it. with sailors, hucksters, junkies and whores.
➤ C o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 6 ➤ C o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 4 4 months, $400,000 till Manor House reopens
By Tom Ca rt e r owner and baker and farmers’ market purveyor who was looking for a second he discovery of faulty plumb- restaurant and accepted the challenge ing and other deficiencies at of providing affordable meals at 210 T the shuttered Manor House Jones St. Restaurant will cause a delay of at least Atkins signed a seven-year lease with four more months and cost upward of TNDC in December, intending to open $400,000 to fix before the once low- a few months later. But during cleanup cost dining haven for hundreds of poor the plumbing problem was discovered. folks in the Tenderloin can reopen. Orlin acknowledged “the great de- Lease-holder John Atkins told The lay” and was eager that the humble eat- Central City Extra that problems had ery open “as soon as possible.” been discovered during an extensive “But once you find one thing cleanup earlier this year. (wrong), it leads to another and another,” “We had plumbing issues,” Atkins she said of the 1926 building. The restau- said at his baked goods stall in Heart of rant had been renovated in 2004. the City Farmers Market. “None of us A more thorough on-site examina- knew what (else) needed to be done.” tion will soon be conducted, then bids The nonprofit developer TNDC brought accepted, a construction contract signed in experts, he said. “They looked at ev- and time-consuming permits pulled. erything” and, lo, more things needed TNDC will cover the “huge cost,” attention. and Atkins won’t be charged rent until
“When a restaurant stays closed a the restaurant is ready for business. “We Photo Lenny Limjoco 2008 certain amount of time, things may have don’t want to burden him with pay- to be done. There will be a renovation. ments.” Robert Mathena and Johnny Martin were among the throngs of Manor It will take four months, start to finish.” But these are details yet to be rene- House regulars when Mimi Yee ran the restaurant that featured affordable meals. Cost estimates range from $200,000 gotiated in a new, long-term lease, she to $400,000, Liz Orlin, TNDC’s chief op- said, adding how happy TNDC is with where it’s located. In recent years, its erating officer, told The Extra. “No one Atkins. cleanliness evaluations from the Depart- Eva Langman anticipated it would take a lot of work,” “We are thrilled to have him, and ment of Public Health inspectors scored [email protected] when Atkins took over the restaurant we’re excited to have him there,” Orlin higher than Manor House did when it or 415.666.5072 last year, she said. “We thought it would said. was open. Atkins’ business card calls it be a relative quick turnaround.” But At- Atkins said he was going to raise a “boutique cafe” that also does cater- Kick your writing up a kins found that the plumbing, grease prices, The Extra reported in March, ing. It features his baked goods, which notch with my support. traps, even the walls posed problems. but that the hikes would be reasonable. he also sells at Heart of the City and the Over a decade’s experience Then TNDC brought in contractors and Yee’s prices, he said, were too low for Alemany Farmers Market. architects to evaluate what needed to be today, reflective of an economy 15 years Atkins doesn’t know if he’ll keep the as freelance writer & editor done. ago. Manor House name. For now, the icon- of poetry, prose and Manor House closed Feb. 18, 2013, “The $3.50 breakfast, no way I can ic restaurant is a darkened shell and its non-fiction, I’ve guided when Mimi Yee, who managed it for 17 do that,” he said. “The variables have $3.50 belly-filling breakfasts and gener- years, serving a sometimes rough crowd gone up. I can’t afford to give it away, but ous $4.95 lunches delivered by quietly progress on memoirs, web six days a week, announced she was I’m not there to gouge anyone.” helpful Chinese American waitresses are content, critical essays & Atkins has a thriving hole-in-the-wall another fading memory of the changing quitting because of the failing health of dissertations. Meticulous, her husband John, the head cook. TNDC restaurant in Cow Hollow called Golo, hood. Chained and padlocked, it sports searched for months for a successor, the name deriving from the first two two signs: “Closed” and “No Dogs Al- well-versed and patient. before findingA tkins, a small-restaurant letters of Gough and Lombard streets, lowed.”
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2 CENTRAL CITY EXTRA / AUGUST 2014 Tech shuttle fee more than triples Fewer stops, more parking cops push price to $3.55
By M a r k He di n during the morning commute and three stops.” temporary decommissioning of five me- hours in the evening, although 92 of the The new pilot plan also tweaks the ters due to bus zone expansion. huttle buses, a flash point for 98 approved stop points have a green cost of administrative staff. This time So far, the only shuttle stops in the frustration over the fast-changing light to be used all day — and night. the trajectory is downward. Instead of Tenderloin are two near the Main Li- S face of San Francisco, will pay a bit There's also an overtime budget equal spending $417,347 on eight positions, brary. more than expected for the privilege to three full-time positions. the new plan is to spend $304,331 on The Extra also asked Holland why of operating freely at Muni bus stops The pilot’s budget builds in a cush- nine positions, ranging from a project di- the MTA needed 18 months to study a and white curbs reserved for passenger ion with 49.3% of all salaries for over- rector at 15% time to an assistant direc- situation that’s been around for years pickup and dropoff. The Metropolitan head — real estate, electricity, account- tor spending an inexplicable two hours and grown so controversial. Transportation Agency previously said ing and human resources costs, Holland per month supervising the supervisors. “The 18-month timeframe was se- the fee to pay for its 18-month study of said, which comes to almost $1 million A 15% time principal administrative ana- lected to allow sufficient time for all us- the situation would be $1 per shuttle over the 18-month study — $967,781. lyst has been added. ers (shuttle providers, Muni operations “stop event,” but upped that to $3.55 So, if all goes as planned, when the Nonlabor costs were similarly and the public) to adjust to the opera- before the pilot program began Aug. 1. study concludes the city will have spent trimmed by requiring the shuttle pro- tional changes and for staff to conduct The buses are so big there’s no $2.6 million on parking cops and their viders to install GPS devices on each ve- the evaluation,” Holland said. “The 18 place for them to pull over and load and supervisors, almost a million more than hicle, saving $166,000 from the cost of months allow for analysis of data collect- unload passengers except white and the entire study was initially projected collecting their data. ed and development of a longer-term Muni zones, and enough are coming and to cost. One other expense the fees will pay proposal.” going during commute hours that their “It really is a new plan for enforce- for that initially was not included is the She went on to cite another MTA pi- presence could throw Muni off sched- ment,” Holland said. “In addition to the projected 56 hours per day of lost park- lot, the just-completed citywide SFpark ule. PCOs that will have this as a larger part ing meter revenue — about $70,000 study, that informed decisions on park- The 11 participating shuttle compa- of their beat, all PCOs will be trained over the 18 months — and more than ing meter and garage rates. That took nies will no longer be subject to the $273 how to enforce the pilot’s network of $15,000 for “meter bagging fees” — the two years to complete, she said. fine the rest of us risk incurring when stopping in a Muni zone — although, as The Extra reported in May, that’s not such a big deal because they have al- 3 wins for The Central City Extra ready been given a pass. Shuttle compa- nies paid $12,195 for bus zone tickets over the past three years, while regular drivers were fined a total of $3.6 million. The shuttle fee does nothing to off- set the big buses’ impacts, such as the $1.08 in estimated street damage they cause for every mile they travel in San Francisco. The fee is intended to only zero-out the costs for gathering and ana- lyzing the data needed to formulate rec- ommendations once the study wraps up at the end of January 2016. Under state Prop. 218 enacted in 1996, the city can’t charge more. This January, the program was esti- mated to cost $1.7 million. By July, that forecast had more than doubled to $3.5 million, as it became clear that more park- ing control officers would be needed. The MTA also determined that it could lower the program’s data collection cost. “We had an imperfect estimate be- The Extra staff took home plaques from the 2013 Peninsula Press Club awards May 31 in three categories: Overall Excellence, cause of imperfect information in the third place behind S.F. Business Times and Palo Alto Weekly, and first place awards for Paul Dunn and Mark Hedin. number of stop events,” MTA public rela- tions officer Kristen Holland said. The $1-per-stop figure was based By M a rjor i e Beggs dailies category. ary, May and November issues won the Reporter Mark Hedin won First on an expected 4,121 daily pickups or entral City Extra once more paper third place for Overall Excellence Place in the News subcategory for “Gen- - dropoffs at 200 of the city’s 1,382 red took home awards from the San among nondailies, a tribute to our ap trified,” his comprehensive November proach that news is a community ser- bus zones or at white passenger loading Francisco Peninsula Press Club’s zones. But the shuttle companies’ appli- C story of nonprofits displaced from the vice and our designer Lise Stampfli. “Evening of Excellence,” its 37th year of mid-Market and Tenderloin neighbor- After 14 years of publishing The Ex- cations were for about 40% fewer daily honoring Bay Area professional journal- hoods. The piece captured a crisis for stops, 2,449, and the number of Muni ists in print, online and broadcast media. tra, the nonprofit San Francisco Study service providers that continues to zones affected fell to half. This year, winners were selected from Center is proud to continue providing worsen. - The original plan was to have eight among 392 entries from 11 Bay Area the central city stories of special con Another First Place, for Feature of cern. Many are also of citywide signifi- parking control officers and a senior counties who distinguished themselves a Light Nature, went to reporter Paul cance. officer all working quarter-time. The re- in 2013. Dunn’s October “Farmers on the roof.” The Extra is a member of the San vised budget calls for the equivalent of The Extra’s three awards at the May The centerspread survey of the Ten- Francisco Neighborhood Newspaper 10 officers at 75% time — three hours 31 event were in the Newspapers Non- derloin’s successful and mostly rooftop Publishers Association, which is cele- community gardens was illustrated with brating its 25th anniversary with a blow- CENTRAL CITY Dunn’s photos. out at the Exploratorium on Oct. 22. The Extra’s submission of its Febru-
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CENTRAL CITY EXTRA / AUGUST 2014 3 Snapshot of change in the shadow of tech ➤ C o n t i n u e d f r o m p a g e 1 about a year ago. The rates are down cess to conference rooms, comfortable a bit — from $4.50 a square foot to common lounges, kitchens and private The tech presence in mid-Market around $4 — for both main and sub- phone booths when the need arises for is like a balloon. How big it is depends leases, but there isn’t much invento- personal conversation away from open on who’s doing the blowing. And, in ry,” he said. Lange joked that many office settings. this case, size does matter. The sea of of the small tech startups take 12- to WeWork, a Delaware-registered lim- tech is deep, wide and rising. The pull 24-month leases. “They think they’ll be ited liability company, bought 25 Taylor of its tides — dragging out the old and bought by big investors, make millions for $16 million in 2012. The building floating in the new — is gentrifying the and move on. The established tech is a minority parcel in a commercial central city, starting with Market Street. companies want five- or 10-year agree- condominium controlled by SHN, the The midsection of the city’s grandest ments with options to renew.” theatrical enterprise helmed by Carole boulevard is being transformed as both Twitter and the big tech companies Shorenstein Hays. ends push toward the middle. employ more than 4,000 here, but you The building had been empty for Market is under construction from don’t see their workers on Tenderloin 17 years since the owners cleared out all tenants, mostly nonprofits, including Tenderloin Times, The Extra’s multilin- gual predecessor. Massive Internet-serv- Two or three years ago there were dead spots on Market from Seventh to 11th streets. Now, ing electrical systems were installed, “it’s filled with new people and new activity. It shows that if the city works hard enough, and floors all opened to sunlight. We- Work transferred ownership of the good things happen. Look, tech is not all bad, Twitter is not all bad, but I’m not sure the building to another WeWork LLC, re- isolation of workers with in-house meals, fitness centers and laundries is the ideal approach. serving for itself a 10-year master lease. That will change with time, particularly with tech workers residing near their jobs. They’ll want One hundred fifty companies, aver- aging four employees each, occupy the to go out to neighborhood spots. That’s when a community, a neighborhood, gets built. You’ll space, according to Tim Pauly, WeWork see people strolling, sidewalk cafes with people relaxing outside under umbrellas.” community manager. Tenants range from sole entrepreneurs — lawyers, Henry Karnilowicz, heads Council of District Merchants Associations, South of Market Business Association accountants, apparel designers, pho- tographers — to tech enterprises, some small like Hotwire PR and Party Corps, Fifth to Sixth. Sixth to Seventh remains streets unless in a group, part of an ar- some well-established like Imgur, Buzz- But early efforts failed, the sidewalk problematic, but not for long with piec- ranged tour of the perilous hood. Feed and Silicon Valley Bank, the invest- planter box trees died and the special- es like the Renoir Hotel and Hollywood No need to. A big bus brings them ment capital specialist that rents an ly painted crosswalks faded. Gray Area Billiards finally falling into place. Eighth to work and takes them home. A free entire floor. Foundation for the Arts, heralded as to Van Ness is mostly spoken for, espe- lunch is an expected perk and in-house When you rent space from WeWork an early anchor, lost its lease. Tranquil cially from 10th Street west. gyms and game rooms are de rigueur you become a member, entitled to perks visits were not the hallmark of the cor- Streets South of the Slot have been in the industry. Why go outside when including indoor bike storage, bottled ner of Turk and Taylor, once described overrun, but the blocks immediately everything you need is near your work- water and free beer as well as inclusion by Tenderloin Station’s former captain, north of Market are proving slow to station? in an exclusive WeWork app that con- Gary Jimenez, as “ground zero for vio- gentrify. Tech dominates Mid-Market’s west nects you not only with the people and lence, a killing field.” It was the scene Tech has barely touched the Ten- end. Seven of the 18 tech companies events in this building, but 10,000 other of wild gunplay in March that wound- derloin, though the disquieting effects in the OEWD report, including Twitter, WeWork members nationwide. ed eight bystanders. Only the deeply of its presence are pervasive here, up- Square, Uber and, soon, Dolby, are locat- Rentals are month-to-month only rooted 21 Club, the city’s premier dive rooting long-established nonprofits, ed one block apart in three buildings and the average tenant stays less than a bar that used to host poetry readings, shredding the city’s safety net. that comprise more than three quar- The Chamber of Commerce, Mar- ters of the 2 million square feet of cen- ket Street Association and SoMa Busi- tral Market office space. ness Association have experienced no Zendesk is the big dog on the east The tech presence makes real the contradictions of gentrification . . . working to improve life uptick in membership from the influx end, with 200,000 square feet in two “for Tenderloin residents, knowing that one byproduct is displacement. The answer . . . is ‘eq- of new businesses. Thus, the traditional buildings —111,500 square feet at 989 uitable development,’ where we encourage economic growth while advocating for including advocates of commerce have nothing Market that it shares with Zoosk and to add to recent mayor’s Office of Eco- 88,000 square feet down the block. residents in its benefits and protecting them from some negative impacts. [It's] similar nomic and Workforce Development NerdWallet just took over the last to the late ’70s and early ’80s, when developers proposed luxury hotels and commercial reports on mid-Market, the only official big office building on mid-Market’s east projects and our TL predecessors responded with the SRO Hotel Anti-Conversion Ordinance enumeration of tech’s presence here. end, 45,000 square feet at the old Mar- OEWD’s “Central Market Turn- shall’s across from Westfield Centre. and the North of Market Special Use District. Throughout its history, TL residents and their around 2011-2014,” released in May, Not far away is an operation that supporters have demonstrated remarkable political savvy and power.” lists 21 new companies — 18 tech, hints at the scope of tech-related busi- two co-working spaces and the ven- nesses in the neighborhood. Don Falk, executive director, TNDC ture capital firm Benchmark — with WeWork, which opened at 25 Tay- mid-Market locales. lor St. a year ago, is not a tech company, But it makes no mention of the but a landlord controlling more than year. Many, according to Pauly, move on seemed able to survive. scores of app developers, program- 20 buildings in six cities nationwide to longer-term leases at larger quarters But the new companies and new ming schools and other “sharing econ- with plans to open new sites in Lon- in the central city. workers in the area are encouraging omy” wannabes occupying modest don and Amsterdam. It calls its holdings “We are creating a community, a signs for those with patience. Arts quarters in previously vacant buildings. co-working spaces, similar to Impact sense of nonisolation,” Pauly said. To groups are putting down roots and gain- Anonymous now, but toiling in hopes Hub, which opened at Fifth and Mis- that end, he cited the social, creative ing stability, often crediting their chance of becoming the next big thing, these sion streets six years ago. It has more and learning events WeWork promotes to thrive on the willingness of tech tech entrepreneurs are uncounted. than 44,000 square feet over the entire for members each week, all fully de- workers to spend discretionary income. With over 90% occupancy, com- seven floors at 25 Taylor St. — abutting tailed on the in-house app. Chefs pres- The nonprofit Center for New Mu- mercial office space is scarce, with the Golden Gate Theatre — for people ent their wares at after-hour dinners, or sic at 55 Taylor St. has been open nearly companies large and small hovering who need a desk or private office. experts like Josh Anon, an artist/techni- two years, nurturing new musicians in over the few spots still available. Art A one-person, 40-square-foot space cal director formerly at Pixar, tell how its performance and rehearsal spaces Lange, a commercial real estate broker costs $650 to $800 a month. Offices for to use the art of storytelling to pitch and collaborating with the Window at Hancock Properties, runs it down. six or more — 240 square feet and up startups and enhance websites. Gallery to showcase hand-crafted musi- “Commercial rates were very high — start at $3,100. All tenants enjoy ac- There seems to be an active cock- cal instruments, some functional, some tail culture with tenants hosting mojito whimsical. and wine tasting meetups after work Executive Director Adam Fong says I feel the tech presence in the Tenderloin has been mostly positive. The tech movement has hours. WeWork organizes group din- the center has held 180 musical events ners at Tenderloin spots and last month since March 2013 and is surviving on ”helped to promote the neighborhood and our vibrant community, but it has also exposed an hosted the Chamber of Commerce pre- $160,000 from paid memberships, tick- area of weakness that I don't think anyone was quite prepared to handle. Many community senting Supervisor Jane Kim discussing et sales for the shows and small grants advocates sounded the alarm on the vulnerability of the commercial real estate market in the prospects for business in District 6. from foundations, including the Bill Step outside WeWork and onto the Graham Memorial Foundation. So far, the Tenderloin, and predicted the cost of housing would skyrocket, but I don't think we were Taylor Street Arts Corridor, proclaimed more than 110 individuals and 25 orga- prepared for the realities of how nonprofits and small businesses were affected.I don't thus four years ago by the Newsom ad- nizations have signed on. ministration, envisioned as a multiblock Fong cites OEWD, Northern Califor- blame the tech companies for that, though... I think the city could have abated it.” sweep filled with storefront galleries and nia Community Loan Fund and Urban arts workshops that would draw visitors Solutions for help getting started, and Dina Hilliard, executive director, Tenderloin CBD from Union Square to the Tenderloin. feels tech companies and their em-
4 CENTRAL CITY EXTRA / AUGUST 2014 Photos Paul Dunn WeWork is a beachhead in the Tenderloin for the little guys of tech and the professionals trying to break into the industry. They rent month-to-month at $16-plus per square foot for a space 4 feet wide and 10 feet deep, about a fifth the size of an SRO unit that rents for less. That's 10 times what offices used to cost around here. But no landlord then gave the tenants free beer. Above: the seventh-floor common lounge and kitchen. Far left: Peter Mortensen of Antedote works in one of the tiny offices.
Most of the tech is on Market, very little in the Tenderloin. But they now represent a portion “of our community, they have very real interests. They have different backgrounds from the people with single and double diagnoses and different economic status. … The newcomers want to be engaged some, but largely sit on the sidelines. They want to help, but they don’t know what their place is. In mid-Market some were victims of crime.”
Jason Cherniss, Tenderloin police captain
the weekends.” homeless. “You know, they don’t want Christopher Graves, the co-owner poor people in this town, anymore.” There’s been more of an open dialogue with tech companies of late, whether that’s because of Littlejohn’s Candies across Market Asked how she knows who can af- “folks have had more access to them or there’s been more presence. We are eager also to Street from Square, has lived in the area ford to live in a NEMA apartment, she look at some bigger projects, particularly the stabilization fund that Market Street for the for 12 years. He opened his shop in says, “You’re not 25 years old. You’re not late 2012. “I know this neighborhood. wearing jeans and a T-shirt and you’re Masses proposed. We are eager to see how this could directly impact the displacement Other businesses are coming here, and not carrying an $800 device in your that’s the No. 1 issue in San Francisco. We did have Twitter and Yammer participate in a that’s a very good sign,” he said. hand.” “Talking Tech in the Tenderloin” roundtable discussion. We did have some representatives A middle-aged woman pauses to “We’re located in the tech corridor, cross Market Street at Tenth. To ease no doubt,” said Sadie Simpson of NEMA from the CBA companies – Twitter, Yammer and Zendesk — at our art auction. They either her way, she uses a walker that’s loaded developer Crescent Heights. “We defi- attended or sponsored.” with small luggage and plastic-wrapped nitely have tech-savvy buildings, but I bundles. believe all sorts of people are leasing, Jackie Jenks, executive director, Hospitality House She points to NEMA’s residential tow- some obviously work in tech compa- ers and street-level windows wrapped nies, but some are lawyers and some with slogans — “Rent, don’t vent” and are in finance downtown.” ployees support the center’s goals. “We Mason Social House and now at Farm- “Amenities, not enemies.” NEMA prom- Expect more Market Street chang- have tech executives on our board of er Brown’s. The Warfield and Golden ises community terraces, 24/7 lobby es when AVA’s 273 residential units at directors — Dennis Yang, president of Gate Theatre are doing business. So’s personnel, a spa and fitness center 55 Ninth St., in the shadow of Twitter Udemy, a SoMa-based online learning Mikkeller Bar. No one said this would and a heated saline pool to prospec- headquarters, is fully occupied. It will and teaching marketplace — and tech happen overnight, but now the neigh- people who live and work in mid-Mar- borhood is changing,” he said. ket are supporting our shows,” he said. CounterPULSE has already staged The TL’s leading indie theater small shows at the Dollhouse, which It hasn’t affected us at all. If you stand in the front door of EXIT, I can see Bloomingdale’s company — the venerable 35-year-old will undergo renovation in September “and Nordstrom, the largest urban mall in the Western U.S. Things that happen at Fifth and EXIT Theatre whose 21st San Francis- and become the group’s permanent co Fringe Festival kicks off Sept. 5 — home next year, thanks in part to the Market and Ninth and Market don’t reach into the Tenderloin, in my experience of 40-some is now joined by PianoFight that will Community Arts Stabilization Trust, years. It doesn’t have that kind of spillover. The Tenderloin is a complex place, it changes soon launch small theatrical produc- which purchased the 80 Turk St. lo- block to block. On ours, we don’t have a single apartment building, so the fact that studios tions in the old Original Joe’s building cale. mid-block on Taylor with plans to open Daniel Patterson, owner of Coi in are $1,500 doesn’t affect us. Things that happen a block and a half away don’t impact us. a restaurant and bar, as well. It’s been North Beach — a two-star Michelin This is the largest transportation nexus in the Western U.S., between BART and every major a long process. PianoFight leased the winner with a $195-per-person menu space in 2011 and began refurbishing — has opened Alta CA on the ground county and most of the Muni stops within a few blocks of here. The transportation affects last year. Rob Ready, one of three found- floor across from Twitter. The prices the Tenderloin. The fact that there used to be a BofA computer center and now it’s Square, ing partners, believes the past three are lower, although $14 cocktails and I don’t know that that’s made any difference to me. It really takes an awful lot to impact years have not been wasted. $16 burgers don’t necessarily bespeak “We’ve got our funding in hand. economy dining. the Tenderloin. Removing parking on Turk hasn’t affected Eddy. The more you get into the We’ve raised about $1.2 million through Next door, Phillip Ma, whose epon- center of the Tenderloin, the less you’ll see impact, except for housing prices. Within the grants, private equity, loans and a recent ymous coffee and wine bar MA*Velous Kickstarter campaign that brought sits in the shadow of Twitter headquar- Tenderloin, residential hotels are still what they were before.” in more than $131,000,” he said. Tech ters, opened before the tax break was companies and the industry have been signed in March 2011. His business Richard Livingston, managing director, EXIT Theatre helpful in fundraising. “They have been is flourishing and he credits Twitter, supportive and generous. When we Square and NEMA, the hundreds of just- hold fundraisers, they’re there,” he said. opened housing units at Tenth and Mar- tive renters of its 754 units, including be joined by 400 residential apart- Ready believes new cultural forces ket, with creating a new dynamic. 460-square-foot studios that start at ments Emerald Fund is building at the are already visible in the neighborhood. “Market Street at this end was scary $2,670 a month and two-bedroom site of the old CSAA building at 100 Van “You have Cutting Ball Theater produc- then,” he said. “You’d see people stand- units on the upper floors of its 30- and Ness Ave., and the 162 units it will soon ing shows at the EXIT, CounterPULSE ing in the middle of the street scream- 40-story residential towers that go for construct a block away at 101 Polk. will be staging performances at the old ing. Now, it’s becoming a neighbor- as much as $6,480. For NEMA’s 90 af- Mid-Market prices now, for housing Dollhouse on Turk Street, there’s music hood. People live here, work here. Even fordable housing units, the monthly and everything else, hark back to the at the Center for New Music and 50 tourists come here. There’s activity on rent is $939 for a studio and $1,066 for days when gold dust just fell from the a one-bedroom. prospectors’ pockets. “You can’t afford to live there,” she I’ll tell you straight up: It’s the zoning out of people who lived here for years. says. “I know. I made an application, but Mark Hedin conducted all the inter- “Disrespect from the young — under 30 — they look at us like we’re losers.” they told me it was all full.” Her name views that accompany this story ex- is Mary, she says, and she used to work cept Henry Karnilowicz by Jonathan Emmett, a legal counselor, disabled, has played music on Market Street for years. for Muni, but got laid off. She lost her Newman. Geoff Link edited the quotes. apartment, became disabled and now is
CENTRAL CITY EXTRA / AUGUST 2014 5 Arts community shows Intersection it’s not alone
➤ C o n t i n u e d f r o m p a g e 1 where art, much of it racy, intersected with anti-Vietnam War activism and the executive director, told The Extra after socially conscious religion of the Rev. the meeting that the fiscal sponsorship Ted McIlvenna. fees — about $120,000 a year — are He was one of the triumvirate of the organization’s largest source of un- ministers who directed Glide’s church restricted income. and enterprises and set Glide on its That won’t get Intersection course of social activism. A year later, through the final months of this fiscal Intersection moved to a North Beach year, which began July 1. The previ- church, then on to the Mission District ous year’s budget was around $3 mil- at 776 Valencia St., a former mortuary. lion. Rollison expects this year’s to be After that site buckled in the ’89 Loma $400,000 to $450,000, excluding the Prieta earthquake, Intersection took activities of the sponsored projects. The over 446 Valencia St., once a furniture deficit going into the year was revised store, and called it home for 14 years. down to $200,000, half what had been “For the record, we moved here to reported when the restructuring news Mission Street to explore what Intersec- broke two months ago. tion could become, really what’s being Photo Marjorie Beggs Still, Intersection’s operational talked about here today — new models board Chairman Yancy Widmer addresses 150 supporters at the July funds are deeply compromised. In July, for the organization,” Cullinan told par- Intersection Intersection had 16 residents artists or ticipants in the space group. “We had community meeting to brainstorm the organization’s next moves. arts companies on its roster. Rollison problems on Valencia Street and had to says Intersection won’t be able to gen- let go of what we’d known. This may just ing, has reverted to its original status as make it through the crisis. erate or produce any new projects this be another path in our trajectory.” The a fiscally sponsored project. Schulman agrees. She, too, was un- year, not even from what it calls its five organization was “fragile when I came Sean San José, Campo Santo direc- aware its situation was so dire, and she “legacy” resident artists: Campo Santo, (1996) and when I left,” she added. tor since 1996, also was Intersection’s wants to give Intersection every oppor- Erika Chong Shuch, Howard Wiley, Dan Her reputation and skills as an ace performing arts program director be- tunity to regroup: “Intersection has re- Wolf and the Living Word Project. fundraiser pulled Intersection through fore the purge. The company’s future is invented itself several times, and there’s At the community meeting, Widmer several financial crises, notably in the secure, he assured The Extra, and now, a lot of trust in its strength to do it said the cause of the financial problems mid-1990s when the dot-com boom “out in the world,” he expects to “more again. Also, among funders, we’re most was “a perfect storm” that blew in last pushed out operations, then again in fully forge our relationship with Magic grateful for its fiscal sponsor program.” year: “We lacked enough unrestrict- the mid-2000s when the recession hit Theatre, American Conservatory The- The city’s thriving arts community ed income, and, like many small and and public and private funding dipped. ater and others.” depends on it: Intersection and Danc- mid-sized nonprofits, we had few re- As one of the transition team mem- ers’ Group each has about 120 projects, serves. Funding that we expected and bers, San José believes there’s no “lack but only Intersection sponsors in all art ARTS SOLIDARITY community contributions didn’t come of possibilities” for Intersection to “Deborah always says, ‘You have disciplines. through. And we had a significant lead- to be out on top of fundraising all the ership change.” Deborah Cullinan, exec- time,’ and it’s true,” says Frances Phillips, utive director since 1996, left in 2013 program director of the Creative Work to lead Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Intersection test case: ‘Wrestling Jerusalem’ Fund, head of arts funding for the Wal- Widmer expressed confidence that ter & Elise Haas Fund. But she knows “Wrestling Jerusalem,” written and performed by Aaron Davidman, was Intersection would weather this storm Intersection more intimately than that. one of Intersection’s last performances before the organization went into re- and asked the audience for ideas. The She was Intersection executive director structuring mode. A piece about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it was praised crowd split into five groups to discuss from 1988-94. The Haas Fund first sup- by Chronicle theater critic Robert Hurwitt as “a remarkable solo perfor- shared space, visual arts, performing ported Intersection in 1986, a grant to mance,” the portraits presented “riveting.” arts, community engagement and fund- help it get established at 776 Valencia. Contemporary and political, the play fits the Intersection model of pre- raising. Another meeting is scheduled “So many people at the community senting relevant artists whose work matters. Davidman’s 15 characters are for Aug. 19. meeting were Intersection peers — the based on his own internal wrestling to make sense of Middle East hostilities executive directors of other arts groups,” and on the people he interviewed during his travels there. The nascent play BELOW MARKET RENT Phillips, one of several funders in the au- had public readings around the country during the six years he was develop- Organizations in financial trouble dience, later told The Extra. “They may ing it and before he brought it to Intersection in early 2013. usually cut staff, then worry about how have come to find out more about Inter- “At the time, I was lining up funding and looking for a fiscal sponsor,” he to keep a roof over the heads of whoev- section’s plans, but it mostly showed the recalls, “but then Intersection asked me to consider becoming a resident art- er is left. Gentrification is exacerbating solidarity of the arts community.” ist, a sort of test case for what they wanted to do more of — they’d give me those concerns for central city nonprof- Phillips says she knew Intersec- in-kind support by providing the space and technical assistance, and I’d raise it arts groups and service providers. In- tion was in financial trouble in March the rest of the funds needed.” tersection, however, doesn’t seem to be but didn’t know how bad it was until The solo production — 13 performances with minimal staging — cost fretting about possibly losing its site at the May public announcement. She’s about $120,000, which Davidman says includes the box office, Intersection’s 925 Mission St. part of a funders’ group that convened contribution, and what he raised from foundations and individuals, each Widmer and Rollison expect to be to try to help the floundering organi- worth a quarter of the total. able to keep paying rent in the Chroni- zation. In late July, the Walter & Elise He’s no novice at fundraising. Beginning in 2001, he was artistic director cle building, at least until Intersection’s Haas Fund gave Intersection a grant for of Traveling Jewish Theatre, a company founded in 1978 whose first fiscal lease is up at the end of 2015. It’s an operating support and a consultant to sponsor was, ironically, Intersection. unheard-of $10,000 a month for 6,200 analyze its last five years’ financial -op “When I brought the play to Intersection, fundraising for it was some of the square feet — $1.60 a square foot in erations. Grants from other funders, not easiest I’ve ever done. The overhead was low and it was project-specific.” a market that today is charging $4 or yet announced, will pay the consultant Davidman remains an Intersection resident artist, but has no new produc- more. Intersection and other tenants to work with an Intersection transition tions scheduled and isn’t certain if organizational changes will affect their were beneficiaries of an ambitious 2011 team to plan strategies and search for future relationship. plan by the Hearst Corp. and developer an executive director. “You can really look at my experience with Intersection as a nod to why Forest City to turn the Chron’s 4-acre “Some of Intersection’s vulnerabil- it’s so vital to San Francisco’s arts community and its cultural fabric — it site into what they called 5M, a commer- ities are like the cart and horse,” Phil- serves a diverse range of people and supports the entire range of the arts.” cial, housing, cultural and arts complex. lips says. “It needs a dynamic new lead- — Marjorie Beggs Intersection’s Hearst-subsidized er, but it’s hard to find a dynamic new digs include a 4,200-square-foot first- leader without the money.” floor performance space, a large base- Grants for the Arts has been funding ment used for rehearsals, classes and Intersection annually since 1971. Kary meetings, and a gallery space donated Schulman, executive director, pulls up to Intersection by The Hub, another the stats after a minute of searching a Hearst tenant. The Hub, a shared work- database at her fingertips. space that leases 8,600 square feet and “The first grant was $2,000,” she rents out individual workstations, offic- says, ”and by 1981 it was up to $15,000, es and meeting and event rooms for its then $28,000 by 1984.” Last year’s members, wasn’t using the gallery area. grant was $53,950. A separate grant of Intersection began life in 1965 in a $25,000 went to Campo Santo, one of dingy coffeehouse at 150 Ellis St., a for- Intersection’s former resident theater mer bar on the fringe of the Tenderloin, groups that now, with the restructur-
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CENTRAL CITY EXTRA / AUGUST 2014 7 COMMUNITYARTS EVENTS CALENDARFriends of Boeddeker Park, 3rd Thursday of the month, 3:30 p.m., Un Cafecito, 335 Jones St. Info: Thursdays@Noon Film, Main Library, noon-2 p.m., Betty Traynor, 931-1126. Koret Auditorium, music fest: Aug. 7, “Gay Purr-ee,” animated with voice of Judy Garland; Aug. 14, “Bells Gene Friend Recreation Center Advisory Are Ringing,” Judy Holliday; Aug. 21, “Fastest Guitar Board, 3rd Thursday of month, 5 p.m. Works to pro- Alive,” Roy Orbison; Aug. 29, “Robin and the 7 tect SoMa resources for all residents. Gene Friend Rec Hoods,” Rat Pack (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin et al.). Center, 270 Sixth St. Info: Tim Figueras, 554-9532. Pop-up Art Show with Kim Jung Gi, Aug. 8, 11 North of Market/Tenderloin Community Benefit a.m.–midnight, SOMArts, 934 Brannan St. South District. Full board meets 3rd Monday at 4 p.m.. Call Korean artist’s first SF appearance. Exhibition, book 292-4812 for location or check nom-tlcbd.org. signing, drawing demonstration (rsvp for demo only: Safe Haven Project, 4th Tuesday of each month, 3 [email protected]). $10 admission or free with p.m., 519 Ellis St. (Senator Hotel). Contact: 563-3205, book or merchandise purchase. Info: somarts.org/ x115, or [email protected]. kimjunggi. SoMa Community Stabilization Fund Advisory Neighbors, a photographic essay project by Troy Committee, 3rd Thursday of month, 5:30 p.m., 1 Holden, Old Mint, 88 Fifth St., Sundays at the Mint, South Van Ness, 2nd floor. Info: Claudine del Rosario, 1-4 p.m., through Aug. 21. Fifty portraits of individuals 701-5580. and families from the Tenderloin, Central Market and Tenderloin Futures Collaborative, 3rd Wednesday SoMa in their homes or workplaces. Admission $10. of the month, 11 a.m.-noon, Tenderloin Police Info: sfhistory.org/sundays-at-the-mint. Community Room, 301 Eddy. Presentations on issues Single Room Occupancy, Hospitality House Com- of interest to neighborhood residents, nonprofits and busking, from Troy Holden's photo exhibition, Neighbors. munity Arts Program, 1009 Market St., through Aug. Robert and Ginger businesses. Info: 820-1412. 22. Exhibition of art from year-long mobile workshops home services, expanded eligibility for home care, sell fresh food and reduce tobacco and alcohol sales. SENIORS AND DISABLED with TL SRO residents of Delivering Innovation in improved discharge planning. Light lunch. Call James Info: Jessica Estrada, [email protected], 771-2600. Supportive Housing (DISH) and Community Housing Chionsini, 703-0188 x304. Mayor’s Disability Council, 3rd Friday of month, Partnership. Info: 553-4525 x301. SAFETY 1-3 p.m., City Hall, room 400. Call: 554-6789. Open Hoarding and Cluttering Support Groups, weekly to the public. meetings conducted by Mental Health Association of SoMa Police Community Relations Forum, 4th REGULAR SCHEDULE San Francisco, 870 Market St., Suite 928. Info: 421- Monday of each month, 6-7:30 p.m. Location varies. Senior & Disability Action (formerly Planning for HOUSING 2926 or mentalhealthsf.org/group-search. To receive monthly email info: 538-8100 x202. Elders/Senior Action Network), general meeting, 2nd Thursday of month, 9 a.m.-noon, Universal Unitarian Legal clinic, 4th Thursday of the month, 507 Tenderloin Police Station Community Meeting, Tenant Associations Coalition of San Francis- Church, 1187 Franklin St. SDA Housing Collaborative Polk St., 10 a.m.-noon. Legal help for people with last Tuesday of month, 6 p.m., police station Commu- co, 1st Wednesday of each month, noon, 201 Turk St., meeting, 3rd Wednesday, 1 p.m. HealthCare Action psychiatric or developmental disabilities who need nity Room, 301 Eddy St. Call Susa Black, 345-7300. Community Room. Contact Michael Nulty, 339-8327. Team meeting, 2nd Wednesday, 1010 Mission St., Resident unity, leadership training. help with an SSA work review, sponsored by People NEIGHBORHOOD (Bayanihan Community Center). For info about SDA's with Disabilities Foundation. Sliding-scale fee. By IMPROVEMENT Survival School, University and computer class HEALTH AND MENTAL HEALTH appointment only: 931-3070. Info: pwdf.org. Alliance for a Better District 6, 2nd Tuesday of schedules: 546-1333, www.sdaction.org. CBHS Client Council, 3rd Tuesday of month, 3-5 Mental Health Board, 3nd Wednesday of the each month, 6 p.m., 230 Eddy St. Contact Michael p.m., 1380 Howard, Room 515. Consumer advisers month, 6:30-8:30 p.m., City Hall, room 278. CBHS ad- DISTRICT 6 SUPERVISOR Nulty, 820-1560 or [email protected], a from self-help groups and mental health consumer visory committee, open to the public. Call: 255-3474. districtwide improvement association. Jane Kim, member, Land Use Committee, School advocates. Public welcome. Info: 255-3695. Call Tenderloin Healthy Corner Store Coalition, District, Transportation Authority; chair, Transbay Central Market Community Benefit District, ahead as meeting location may change. 4th Thursday of the month, 3 p.m., Kelly Cullen Joint Powers Authority Board of Directors; vice-chair, board meets 2nd Tuesday of month, Hotel Whitcomb, Healthcare Action Team, 2nd Wednesday of Community Building, 220 Golden Gate Ave., 2nd Transportation Authority Plans & Programs Committee 1231 Market St., 3 p.m. Info: 882-3088, http://cen- month, 1010 Mission St., Bayanihan Community Cen- floor auditorium or 5th floor gym. Public meetings to Legislative aides: Sunny Angulo, Ivy Lee and April tral-market.org. ter, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Focus on increasing supportive discuss legislation that encourages corner stores to Veneracion. Jane [email protected], 554-7970. YOU BELONG WITH US! ENROLL NOW AT CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO Fall Semester Starts August 18, 2014 www.ccsf.edu
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