The intersection of Geary and Fillmore in San Francisco’s Western Addition is something of a waypoint on the city’s historical map; Jim Jones’s infamous People’s Temple once stood a block away, Japantown sits on its northern edge and The Fillmore auditorium, a musical temple, looms over the intersection.
The neighborhood was once nicknamed the Harlem of the West, thriving with Black-owned businesses until redevelopment in the 1960s and 1970s uprooted many of those families, never to return.
Now in a street level storefront just below the famous Fillmore auditorium sign, a new business is hoping to incubate a new generation of Black-owned businesses along Fillmore Street, a roadway that