End of Days for the Elbo Room? Building on the Market for $4.2M
With the Elbo Room’s lease now set to expire on January 1, 2019 and plans to redevelop its site having been approved, the corner building which it currently occupies at…
Stirrings for Long-Shuttered Mission District Site
With the redevelopment of Elbo Room moving closer to reality, we turn our attention to the long-shuttered furniture store space next door at 657 Valencia Street. Having sat empty for…
Challenge of Elbo Room Redevelopment Slated to Fail
The building permits for the proposed three-story addition and residential conversion of the two-story Elbo Room building at 645-647 Valencia Street have been requested and triaged. And the formal challenge…
The Fallacy of Legacy Business Status in San Francisco
The benefit of being awarded “Legacy Business” status in San Francisco is widely misunderstood and frequently misrepresented. Businesses that apply and are approved for Legacy Business status by the City…
Neighbors Challenge Elbo Room Redevelopment
With the proposed redevelopment of the Elbo Room – which now calls adding three new stories atop the existing two-story building at 645-647 Valencia Street, converting its ground floor into…
Elbo Room Redevelopment Granted Streamlined Review
While the owners of the two-story building at 645 Valencia Street have abandoned their original plans to raze the corner building which is currently leased to the Elbo Room, new…
Elbo Room Lease Extended through 2017
While the Elbo Room’s lease expired last month, and the owners of the venue at 645 Valencia have been working on plans to demolish the building and construct nine condos…
Permit To Bulldoze Elbo Room Has Been Requested
The owners of the corner building at 645 Valencia which is currently home to the Elbo Room, the iconic Mission District club whose lease will end on November 1, have…
Elbo Room Will Be Razed, Lease Expires November 1
As we first reported early last year, the owners of the building at 645 Valencia Street which is currently leased to the Elbo Room have been working on plans to…
Plans The Raze The Elbo Room Move Closer To Reality
Despite widely publicized assurances to the contrary, plans to raze the Elbo Room to make way for new condos to rise at 645 Valencia Street are expeditiously moving forward and…