826 Valencia secures space to expand to Tenderloin

826 Valencia has signed a lease for the former site of Big Boy Market at Golden Gate Avenue and Leavenworth Street, a historically crime-heavy intersection.

The Mission-based literary nonprofit 826 Valencia that last year secured a grant to open a second site in the Tenderloin has signed a lease for the former site of Big Boy Market at Golden Gate Avenue and Leavenworth Street, a historically crime-heavy intersection.

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Photo by Evan Ducharme/ 2013 S.F. Examiner file photo