The Castro Merchants Association was founded by Castro Camera business owner Harvey Milk in 1974 in response to the anti-gay Eureka Valley Merchants Association.
The beginning of the COVID pandemic in 2020 marked a dark turning point in the lives of many people around the world, and that’s as true of San Francisco’s LGBTQ Castro neighborhood as anywhere.
Members of the Castro Merchants Association are wrestling among themselves about how to spend $100,000 that’s been made available to them by the city to encourage pop-ups in shuttered storefronts.
A public squabble about how to spend $100,000 that’s been made available to the Castro Merchants Association by the city to encourage pop-ups in shuttered storefronts seems to have been resolved by its board of directors on Friday.
A public squabble about how to spend $100,000 that’s been made available to the Castro Merchants Association by the city to encourage pop-ups in shuttered storefronts seems to have been resolved by its board of directors on Friday.