“‘King Carl is a pufferfish, a traveling royal pufferfish, who opened a store in the Tenderloin and he sells the wares from his travels here,’ said Bita Nazarian, the Executive Director of 826 Valencia, a literary program for children that started in the Mission District and is expanding to a storefront and new tutoring center in the Tenderloin.
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"The latest example that San Francisco’s Tenderloin is steadily improving comes today as the nationally acclaimed 826 Valencia writing program opens its Tenderloin Center."
Check out this sneak peek and announcement of the grand opening of our new center in The San Francisco Chronicle!
After a year of construction, 300 hours of working with students in the Tenderloin through partner organizations, and incredible support from all of you, the 826 Valencia Tenderloin Center is open for business!
How many people does it take to transform an abandoned liquor store into a beautiful space for kids, for half the going price? A whole lot of people!
