""The worst case scenario for me is that ATA would cease to exist as it is, that we would lose that platform for people in San Francisco and beyond," cruse said."
""It's a very different Mission from the one that ATA first appeared in," cruse said."
""This is at the center of Mission cultural life," San Francisco video artist Jeffrey Skoller told SFGATE."
""All of the other places now are commercial businesses, and this is one of the last nonprofit artist spaces. So it has to be rescued an"
Artists' Television Access (ATA) is a volunteer-run nonprofit collective at 992 Valencia St. that programs experimental film and nonconformist art. The organization entered debt at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic after vacating the building for a planned seismic retrofit in 2020–2021, which reduced income. The landlord accepted partial payments during that period and later established a repayment plan requiring $45,000 in back rent due by December plus monthly rent of $5,657.73. Failure to meet the repayment and ongoing rent could result in loss of the storefront and the collective's presence amid neighborhood gentrification.
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