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San Francisco artist and real estate firm join forces for unique solution to shuttered storefronts plaguing the city
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — San Francisco is loaded with empty storefronts. They plague each individual neighborhood. In the Mission District, a making at 780 Valencia sat vacant for two decades immediately after Betabrand, the former tenant, left throughout the pandemic. The true estate organization that owned the house, Basking Investment Group, was exhausted of looking at it boarded up, so they turned to a regional artist for support. “Aspect of my business product is to activate place,” reported Renee DeCarlo, who took the 6,000 sq. foot setting up and turned it into an artwork gallery. The reveals at The Drawing Place have themes. The initially 1 concentrated on weather change,…