Today’s Examiner contains another article on the Alexandria Theater. If you’ve been following developments here on the blog, you know that there has been lots of chatter and updates recently on plans for the property which has been unoccupied since 2005.
There isn’t too much new information in the Examiner article, but it does include quotes from concerned neighbors such as Yevgeniya Lapa, an employee of the Europa Plus market across the street. “They use it like a restroom. It’s dirty.” Another neighbor calls it an eyesore.
The article also reports that the Department of Building Inspection plans to visit the theater this week “to make certain the property has good reason to not be called vacant or abandoned, spokesman Bill Strawn said.”
As the story’s headline alludes to, the theater has evaded current blight laws due to the two storefronts that occupy part of the property on the Geary side. In addition, the YMCA rents some parking spaces in the back parking lot. It is this activity that has prevented the building from being classified as abandoned, which would make it subject stiff fines for not keeping up the property.
Read the full story at sfexaminer.com
Sarah B.
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Maddening! This did not happen overnight. Ridiculous that Supervisor Marr has been getting calls, walks by there and still does nothing to spearhead cleanup efforts. Its time he show some leadership and get the theater cleaned up. Same sad story for the old Albertson’s store that now is a campsite and vacant for quite some time. Without businesses our neighborhood becomes just a parking place for investor money. Time and time again, there are sweetheart developer deals and if it goes bad, the neighborhood suffers. While you’re at it you can put that un named planning commission person who owns the building at 25th & Geary in the do nothing column too. This place has been posted numerous times for Graffiti some as old as last July. Crikey! Still getting more tags, no cleanup, lot is used as a dump. Why have these laws that take a huge amount of debate and discussion passed when the elected and neighborhood leaders sit there and do nothing?