That thing was empty for a million years, and they wanted like a million bucks a square foot for it. Can’t wait to see what’s coming!
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Hopefully whatever replaces it will not be run by criminals like Z-Barn was.
So nobody knows what this is gonna be? The city Planning Dept. says “retail,” but that’s not very specific.
looks exactly like what they’re doing to the façade of the soon-to-be La Urbana ‘mezcaleria’ at Divis and Grove.
see behind the mural in progress:
https://twitter.com/rusiski/status/332230832527925249/photo/1
what was that about Valencia 2.0?
Fartisan.
My friend is doing the electric work there. It’s a multi-gauge slotcar racing venture featuring vintage HO Aurora AF/X cars and track up to 1:24 scale. It also has/will share a food component and I believe a wine+beer license. Not sure about that part. We’ll see….
hope you are trolling the shit out of us. what on earth at 1:24 scale could be worth a fuck?
Nah, that’s what we are wiring for. It’s red-tagged right now for inspection. I may have the slotcar lingo wrong- 1:32 sounds more like what they said. I had the AF/X setup when I was a kid in the 70′s but haven’t really encountered the slotcar scene since.
There is a resurgence going on these days – google it.
BTW our IBEW local is picketing Helix Electric outside of City Hall today – honk or ring bells pls!!
Slotcars, mini golf, gourmet bowling… I get it, you love and/or miss your 1980s childhood. This is getting as bad a baby boomer nostalgia.
Slot-cars, mini golf, bowling – all part of the standard 1960s childhood. Skateboards, too. Nothing specifically “1980s” about any of ‘em.
Public slot car tracks had brief run in the late ’60′s, then everyone began smoking grass and it ended with a thwack.
I was at the rally, kill the rat. I didn’t know that was a union job on Valencia.
Who’s doing the slot cars? There used to be a slot car race track in potrero? hunter’s point? I can’t remember. Also, one of the Extra Action dudes has a really nice slot car race track that he used to set up at Coachella for a few years…
The mission has become bizarro dave and busters
While it’s nice that fun things are going in, this is one of those cases where they should have nuked that building and converted it to 4-5 story mixed use while it was empty. Oh well.
why, so we can have more housing for rich people? another theme restaurant?
ok, im actually geeked for this if its true.
however, seeing how badly mission bowling club is fucking up im gonna guess its going to cost a million dollars to use the track.
Hopefully a Mervyn’s or a miniature Wal-Mart..!
OPEN!
OPEN!
OPEN!!!
SALE!
SALE!
SALE!
Thought this was the Beta Brand Store, guess not.
No, that’s at the former Summit/780 Cafe/failed startup incubator:
http://missionlocal.org/2013/05/online-clothier-betabrand-opens-on-site-of-780-cafe/
I thought Giant Value was going to downsize and move into that space as Medium Size Value.
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