SF Examiner fills us in:

The company’s owner, Peter Acworth, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to nonprofits working to help Mission youth, and now he wants the building’s 38,000-square-foot drill court to be a community center — completely separate from the rest of the business, of course.

The massive space under a semi-cylinder roof is currently used for parking, but it was historically a place of gathering for boxing matches and other events to entertain soldiers. Acworth has a building permit for code upgrades, and he said monthly community events could begin by the end of this year.

“We want to resurrect this space as a place of assembly,” said Acworth, who bought the 1912 structure for $14.5 million in 2006, when he cleaned up graffiti and broken windows that had amassed since it was abandoned in the 1970s. “Our goal is to start slowly.”

The article goes on to talk about hosting banquets, film festivals (presumably not exotic film festivals), farmer's markets, sports events, and whatever else pops up while surveying the Mission's needs.  That all sounds fantastic, but I'll tell you what the Mission needs: a space for giant fucking concerts.  Presumably the acoustics aren't great in there, but it beats rolling to Oakland everytime we want to see a band people have heard of.  Plus such an attraction would help all the complimentary businesses in the area, which I'm certain no one would complain about.

Get on it, Kink.

[Examiner]