Mission Buzz: New theater and performing arts space coming to Mission

Friday Dec. 5 is the last day for vaccines at La Placita at 24th and Capp. The site will be open from 9 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.

Teatro Tin Tin at 2521 Mission St. near 21st Street is set to open in early 2027. The new venue will be a live performing arts and cafe space  with music, live theater, sketch comedy, open mic, dance classes and a little bit of circus. 

Owner Michael Hays, a musician who is also involved in theater, said he wants to create a community around the space to support artists. An inspiration he’d like to bring to Tin Tan comes from a New York City event called Roots and Ruckus where musicians get to play a few songs in an open mic, and pass a hat around collecting tips.

Hays said that seeing the closures of legendary Mission District spaces such as Revolution Cafe and Amnesia added to his desire to open the space, in collaboration with his wife and a small board mostly made up of musician friends.

“I just see places going out of business or closing down. I also understand the sort of struggle that musicians have playing gigs and not getting paid enough,” said Hays. “I just wanted to bring more of a musician-run space that hopefully supports people making music.”

As for the facade, which he described as a little “Art Nouveau,” Hays said that it was a collaboration with friends, and that he was looking to add to the Mission District’s “cool architecture.”

The name Tin Tan, he said, comes as a tribute to Mexican comedian and clown Hernan Valdez.

Hays hopes the space will also be open during the day to offer Mission residents a space to hang out. 

Barato Barato at 2121 Mission St. near 17th Street opened in July. The store offers anything from electronics, clothes, housewares, toys and jewelry. Customers can find different offers depending on the day of the week. Thursdays, for example, most items are listed at $1.

“The goal is to save people money to be able to buy expensive items for cheap, really low prices,” said owner Adel Alghazali. “Another reason is that instead of [having the products] being shipped somewhere else, it’s better for us if we can use it over here.”

Alghazali said he is able to offer such good prices because he buys truck loads at the time. The result? Customers can find deals ranging from 50 to 90 percent discounted. The prices are so good, he added, that even his family and friends are shopping at the store.

Some of the items are used but most are new, he said.

“People are very happy,” said Alghazali. “Especially now that everything is really expensive.”

Alghazali said that through his store, other people are also starting their own businesses by buying lots and products and sending them to other countries.

Alghazali said that he’s hoping to open a second location on Mission Street near the border with Daly City, but he has yet to find a space he can afford. He also recommended customers to check out Barato Barato’s very own TikTok account.

A Yemeni national, he is also in the process of opening a Yemeni restaurant called Mandi House at 18th and Valencia streets.

Cubita at 2516 Mission St. near 21st Street opened in June. Once home to El Techo, the rooftop space is now a Cuban bar and restaurant offering tropical cocktails and some of the island’s staple dishes such as Ropa Vieja and sandwich Cubano. 

The Hall at 2565 Mission St. between 21st and 22nd streets opened in August. The space serves as a pool hall but also serves cocktails, wine, beer and food. Customers can reserve tables by the hour.  

Nearby, construction workers are putting in the tile on the four units at 2575 Mission St. Next, they move on to the restaurant that will fill the ground floor space. Mission Local reported in October about the new Mexican restaurant moving into the space, formerly the home of Doc’s Clock until 2017.

Business is down a bit at Dianda’s Bakery at 2883 Mission St, said the manager Ariana Gomez. But their rum cake, cheesecake and pies are still favorites. 

 For the next three Saturdays the walls outside the former social security building at 22nd and Valencia streets will turn into a mapping art installation. 

Slide and Spin will use its powerful projectors to showcase holiday imagery with the theme “love your neighbor during these challenging times.”

The show will go from dusk until 10 p.m.

A couple of new additions are coming to the exhibit within the York Street Collective takeover of The Corner Store, formerly Lucca Ravioli, at 1100 Valencia St. The additions are two make-to-order rugs inspired by the winter rain and its effect on a sidewalk near one of the artists’ apartments. 

The two rugs – one 10 feet by two and a half feet and another eight and a half feet by nine feet –  is a collaboration between Studio Anand Sheth and Nomadory, a Marin based company that produces their rugs in Northern India.

The rugs will be on display to the public between Dec. 10 and Dec. 22, the last day the collective will occupy the space.  

907 Valencia St.Administrative law judge Andrew Yick rejected Mosser’s application for a work extension for the capital improvement work at 907 Valencia St. The work follows a fire in February. Mosser said that to begin the work they need the tenants to move out. They also need an extension to be approved by the Rent Board since construction will last more than three months. The owner served 23 capital improvement eviction notices in April, but tenants in 14 units refused to move out without more protections. 

Yick found Mosser had failed to obtain construction permits before serving the eviction notices and the extension request, as the city code requires. It’s unclear what will happen next. 

SFP at 867 Valencia St. is a startup incubator space that’s been since around March, said a man who answered the door on Thursday afternoon. The building, 867-871 Valencia St., sold for $2.3 million earlier this year, according to Zillow and for years, the architects who owned the building kept a running show of art in the windows. 

Lore SF at 3065 16th St. between Mission and Valencia streets opened in June. The business offers escape rooms, karaoke, games nights, tapas, flatbreads and cocktails (starting at $19).

The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a beer and wine liquor license for the Roxie Theater.