826 Valencia Tenderloin Center published in new McSweeney’s book – titled “Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire”

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The whimsical 826 Valencia Tenderloin Center, located on the corner of Leavenworth Street and Golden Gate Avenue in the heart of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, serves as an engaging writing workshop for San Francisco Bay Area youth, and an administrative office for the 826 Valencia nonprofit organization. The INTERSTICE project has just been featured in a book published by McSweeney’s with the Hawkins Project and edited by The International Alliance for Youth Writing Centers, titled Unnecessarily Beautiful Spaces for Young Minds on Fire. The idea behind the publication is that kids deserve welcoming—and weird—places to write and be creative. We are honored to have been a part of this important community-serving project and to be included in this beautiful compendium of architecture for our next generation.