Gatekeeping On Privately Owned Plum Street Frustrates Neighbors

San Francisco CA

29 December, 2021

10:59 AM

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By Annika Hom, Mission Local December 27, 2021 In the 15 years Bill worked at the Discount Builders Supply & Hardware Store on Mission Street, the street behind it always remained open. Then one Saturday, he discovered it closed off. "I knew something was going on, and it was going to be an issue because we have a lot of customers that came from that way," said Bill, the store manager, who declined to give his surname. Plum Street, a byway between Mission Street and South Van Ness Avenue, is surrounded by roadways that shepherd cars to highways. For decades, contractors and DIY-builders took this alleyway – an alternative to looping around to the hardware store's entrance on Mission Street near 13th. But customers haven't been able to do that ever since barricades went up about a year ago on the eastern half of Plum Street. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.