By Sarah Han
Last week some local bad news hit the internets: Real estate blog Socketsite posted that the owners of the Elbo Room, located at 645–647 Valencia Street, have drafted plans to demolish and replace the venue with a mixed-use residential/commercial building. People were bummed by the news (“… we were all contemplating a mass ritualized suicide,” said one Elbo Room fan on FB when he heard the news), but the sadness was a little premature: it looks like the club is not closing anytime soon afterall.
On Friday, the Elbo Room posted “For those of you who read the Real Estate blogs, the answer is: No, Elbo Room is not closing any time soon.” And then Saturday, Shapiro posted on FB: “Once again, We Are Not Closing, if we were, I’d be freaking out… the building owners (close friends of ours), submitted a proposal (which has to be public), but are not acting on it at this time.”
Musician Adam Theis, whose band the Jazz Mafia has played at the Elbo Room posted yesterday, “the good news for the day is that the legendary Elbo Room in SF is NOT closing it’s doors. There was some incorrect info that spread thru the interwebs over the weekend about it being sold and turned into condos etc…Loosing [sic] Elbo would really suck, that place has a lot of history and future in my opinion.”
Image by ddosberg via Flickr
