P.S. Is this place near the Endup Club?
Posted on 01/26/2007 10:21:01 AM PST by SmithL
A plan to turn the old armory building on Mission Street into a porn film studio has run into a wall of opposition, with several community groups expressing outrage that a company specializing in bondage videos intends to move into their family-filled neighborhood.
The backlash against Kink, a Web-based pornography distributor currently housed South of Market, has prompted Mayor Gavin Newsom's office to take notice but caused other city officials to simply shrug apologetically.
Because the company, which has quietly called San Francisco home since its founding a decade ago, doesn't plan to make any structural changes to the building, it will not have to seek approval from the city Planning Commission, officials said.
The structure already is zoned for commercial and industrial use, which under San Francisco law includes film production.
"The planning code ... is not really worried with moral propriety," said Amit Ghosh, director of the city's planning department. The building, bought by Kink in December for $14.9 million, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1912 and served as a military induction and training center during the two world wars, but has sat empty since 1970 and been the subject of bitter neighborhood fights over development and gentrification during the past decade.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
San Francesspool.
Typical S.F. The building has stood empty and unused (and generating little or no tax revenue) for 37 years in the heart of a wealthy, densely-developed city. Somebody finally comes up with the money and a plan to use the building and the "activists" all cry "No, not that! I want something else!"
That neighborhood is pretty decrepit.
The people who live there are mostly illegal aliens, there's a housing project, and some bohemians.
I don't see why they have a problem with it. Will do more research into who is having a problem with it.
Ok, I see.
The only reason the "community" is up in arms about it is because the greedy profiteers, aka "non profits" wanted the Mayor to buy it for them and turn it into another housing project for illegals.
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=4110
The real story.
P.S. Is this place near the Endup Club?
No.
That's on, I believe 6th and...Harrison, and is a gay club.
I think you're right. It's looking the wrong way.
Hi I just moved AWAY from SF.
I'm in Sonoma County now.
I also have a Bay Area Republican group on livejournal.
http://community.livejournal.com/sf_conservative/profile
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