Thee Parkside, the punk bar and venue on Potrero Hill’s 17th Street, is closing. 

The buildings owner Malia Spanyol saw it coming. When the building’s previous owner died last year, Spanyol had first rights to buy. A developer outbid her at $1.33 million. “If they’re dicks, they could kick me out right away,” she told Mission Local in August. They were. She’s out. Last shows are in March. 

The announcement came via Instagram on Tuesday, with a video of the patio wall freshly tagged in red and black: “This will be condos you can’t afford!” 

Parkside put it bluntly, 

Well, looks like we’re gonna turn into a buncha condos. We don’t have an exact end date, but we’ll be stopping live music at the end of March and then just be a bar for a few months after that.
This neighborhood will be pretty boring with both us and Bottom Of The Hill gone, but I feel like we’re just one more small business dying in this city: the culture, the “weirdos”, the arts, the working class are all going to be gone. The third spaces that once thrived will be replaced with bland and expensive corporations or will sit vacant.

Want to play one last show? Email or DM us.
Have a great story about us? Sign our yearbook on our website.
Share pics with us.
Get merch while you can.
Come support the bar and staff.
We can sit at the bar and talk about how this city is becoming so homogenized and soul-less. Or about our favorite women-fronted hardcore bands or who was our worst (Shane) & best employee (also Shane?) or the best show we had. We can reminisce and pet dogs and eat tater tots and we can plan for the revolution.

Originally a lunch spot known as Frank’s Place, the building has stood for over 100 years, having been built in 1911. Since at least 2002, it’s been Thee Parkside tavern and since then has been a staple of the San Francisco punk music scene. A true dive bar, it often served up music for people other venues in the city didn’t prioritize: the weirdos, the lifers, and the scene kids who aged into scene adults. 

Lambgoat even sponsored a few shows there, including METH, Dreamwell, and State Faults.

“Losing an immensely important club like Parkside is like a death in the family,” Thrillhouse Records wrote on social media. “The brutality of capitalism has left SF with a limited amount of places to throw punk shows. And anytime our handful of show spaces shrinks, we really feel it.”

The news comes weeks after Bottom of the Hill, just down the block, announced it would close at the end of 2026. Different circumstances, as Bottom of the Hill owns its building and is going out on its own terms, but the same result for the neighborhood. 

Two legendary San Francisco venues within blocks of each other, gone within a matter of months.