It was confirmed that two long -time companies in the 400 block of Castro Street, Castro Coffee Co. and Castro Nail Salon will be sold by new construction managers in June in June.
In March we heard that Castro Coffee and the nail studio were in negotiations to renew their three -year rental contracts that appeared in June, and they proposed the local Merchants' Association that they may be expelled. The reporter of the Bay Area confirms the evacuations this week and said that the brothers Ken Khoury (74) and Riad Khoury (78), the operators of the two companies, have to move out before July 1 if another planet takes full control over the rooms.
Another planet that was learned for the first time in 2022 is the new operator of the 103-year-old Castro Theater, and in the theater a great renovation is carried out in the theater to bring its electrical, sound and HLK systems to modern standards. APE plans to fill the theater with various programs throughout the year that will probably contain concerts, stand-up comedy, film festivals and unique film screenings-the latter require the installation of temporary, removable seats on the main stage, in which the old theater seats were removed in favor of concert venues-style platforms.
APE will not publicly say what its intentions have for the two 300 square meters of large rooms that flank the historical entrance of the Castro Theater, but use seems quite obvious, and that is cash on cash. In the similarly historical Fox Theater in Oakland, which supervised the renovation of two decades two decades ago, the original glass box is not used at the main entrance, while a modern box office was installed on the street around the corner.
The original box office in the Castro, which was used for the sale of tickets on film days until the theater is closed, could also only remain on the spot for the show, since the willing needs of a concert location require a few more windows. (Before that the Castro organized a film festival or a large event, the organizers usually had to set up folding tables that blocked one or the other entrance doors to deal with ticketing.)
The Khours say that they either only take one of their rooms or take into account the 209 square meter room three doors that have recently been cleared by Double Rainbow Ice Cream-and that the building actually belongs to the younger brother of the Khours. The Khours insist that the ice cream parlor is too small to use one of its business.
“These companies are essential,” Ken Khoury told Bay Area reporter. “You take these businesses, this part of the 400 block would be totally dead. Is that what the city wants? You take a flourishing business that serves the community for so long and basically just throws out … I have five employees with relatives. How can I turn your back and tell you that you should disappear?”
Riad Khoury adds: “We are not like Walgreens. We have relationships, stories that we bring together for a long time.”
The nail salon was opened in 2004, while Castro Coffee Co. has been in its place in the 427 Castro Street since 1987, even though he changed its name in 2009.
The original owners of the Castro Theater, the Nasser family, descendants of the founders of the theater, say that the decision-making about the rental contracts on July 1 are officially taken over as APE as the tenant of the theater and the retail space.
Another spokesman for another planet, publicist David Perry, implemented the topic in a comment to the bar and said: “We do not celebrate negotiations between the Nasser and one of their tenants. We have a focus that renovates, renovated and upgraded as quickly as possible to enable the Kastro -Kastro -Kastro and the sustainable Kastro -Kastro LGBBBBBTQ, the LGBBBBTQ, the LGBBBBTQ, the LGBBBBTQ, the LGBBBTQ, the LGBBTQ, the Castro -Castro -Castro -Castro -Castro -Castro -Castro -Castros -Vitory, the LGBBTQ, the LGBBBTQ, that Castro -Ca and the cultural variables and the sustainable vitrics and the cultural variables.
The Castro Theater should be opened again in good time this year, but we now know that the reopening has been delayed until late autumn or beyond.
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