It was supposed to be an emergency fix for one of lower Fillmore’s most glaring vacancies: San Francisco officials planned to give a longstanding nonprofit on the neighborhood’s edge a $1-per-year, no-bid lease to reopen the abandoned Ella Hill Hutch Community Center with programming for 150 children and teens this summer.
But days before the lease was set to go to Booker T. Washington Community Service Center, city leaders who had previously supported the deal announced a change of plans.
Mayor Daniel Lurie’s office confirmed Friday that the Recreation and Parks Department will assume temporary operational oversight of the center while city officials and community stakeholders work together to identify a permanent operator — and the Booker T. Washington nonprofit said it is no longer pursuing a deal. The lease dispute has exposed deeper fractures in the Fillmore, where longstanding revitalization efforts have yet to deliver lasting wins…