Almost 70 LGBTQ and allied community members have signed on to a petition to the city planning commission supporting Grubstake Diner in its planned rebuilding project, which will include the construction of 21 apartments above the Polk Gulch late-night eatery popular with the queer community.
The planning commission is expected to hear the matter and can make a decision about the project at its July 22 meeting. Diner owner Jimmy Consos proposed a plan to rebuild the diner on the bottom floor of a mixed-use building that would also feature affordable housing some years ago, as the San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2016.