The Mission Cultural Center is set to relocate from their longtime home amid renovation work. The move may come with a price.
Mission Cultural Center Executive Director, Martina Ayala, and the center's board listen to the public express their concerns over the institution's move on Tuesday April 16, 2024. Photo by Oscar Palma
Ayala said rents in the Mission range from $15,000 to $25,000 a month for spaces much smaller than their current building, and often these spaces also required additional expenses such as structural and ADA compliance work. At the moment, she has a $490,000 relocation fund, but Ayala said that is not enough.
The center pays only $1 a year to the city and receives around $600,000 from the Arts Commission annually for its budget. But still, its executive director said, the center will struggle to find the hundreds of thousands of additional dollars required to pay market-rate rents elsewhere in the neighborhood..
Denise Pate, the director of community investment for the Arts Commission, said that the center does not qualify for some of the grants they have available because they already receive funding from the Arts Commission, in the form of cash and with the facilitation of the building. She said that other groups that function at the building could apply for the grants instead, and they could use those funds to support the building.
“They said that a lease would be forthcoming and it never came,” said Retana to Lisa Zayas-Chien, the capital project manager of the Arts Commission, at Tuesday’s meeting. “This is a cultural institution and people rely on it. It’s disrespectful to treat us that way. How can we believe what you’re saying if you’ve treated us that way?”
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