Just days after a contentious debate over governance at the Ella Hill Hutch Community Center, San Francisco’s City Hall is now taking another step toward reviving one of the Fillmore neighborhood’s most visible dormant landmarks: the long-shuttered Fillmore Heritage Center.
City officials announced Thursday that the Heritage Center, which years ago served as the home to Yoshi’s nightclub at Fillmore and Eddy streets, will reopen temporarily through December for short-term activations and events led by local community groups, artists and small businesses. The effort is aimed at bringing life back to a building that many residents have long viewed as both a cultural touchstone and a reminder of the city’s unfulfilled promises to the historic Black neighborhood.
For years, the Fillmore has been shaped by an ongoing struggle to reclaim what decades of redevelopment and disinvestment took away — from stalled efforts at boosting its economic vitality to the shuttered community spaces that came to symbolize a neighborhood still waiting to see consistent investment. Mayor Daniel Lurie said in a statement Thursday that the city’s latest plan for the Heritage Center “honors the legacy of the Fillmore while creating new opportunities for the people and small businesses that make this neighborhood special.”…