Legendary East-Bay punk rock venue 924 Gilman is facing rent increases that threaten to shut the space down. On July 1st, the Berkeley venue’s rent will go up nearly $3,000 a month. According to their website:
The club’s rent has been increasing every year for the last twenty three years, and up until now we’ve been able to make the adjustments needed to compensate for those increases, but what we are facing now is the equivalent of having twenty years of rent increases condensed into one, and once it goes into effect the clock will begin to tick away as we struggle to generate the extra $31,000.00 a year needed to cover this massive rent hike.
Since opening in 1986, the all-ages, non-profit community space and music venue has become famous for nurturing the punk scene through supporting acts like Rancid, Green Day, AFI, Bad Religion and more when they were just starting out. Punk Rock owes a lot to the venue and you can help keep them afloat by giving them a donation via PayPal here – in return the venue is offering a t-shirt and tote bag for any donation over $25.
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