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Long before San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood was given its current development-happy sobriquet to lure high-tech companies, The Strand theater was a fixture there. The building played host, for most of the last century, to various sorts of entertainment…
But throughout the building’s dramatic career, its infrastructure remained intact, and in 2015, an enlightened renovation by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) welcomed audiences of a different type: those seeking out live theater.?