After a two-year restoration that uncovered artifacts from its previous lives as a creamery, tailor shop, and gay disco, the Haight's jazz room reopens Thursday night under new ownership — ending a three-year silence.

The building at 1511 Haight has been a lot of things in 98 years: a creamery, a tailor shop, a gay disco, a jazz club. Thursday night it opens again, as The Deluxe, after a two-year restoration that pulled some of those previous lives out of the walls.

Workers doing the renovation uncovered artifacts embedded in the structure — physical evidence of the building's layered past — according to NBC Bay Area's Sergio Quintana, who broke the reopening story. New owners Christian Beaulieu and Jay Bordeleau declined to catalog the finds specifically, but the sentiment runs through everything they've said about the project: a building this old holds the people who used it, and gives evidence of them back.

The venue, originally known as Club Deluxe, closed more than three years ago in a combination of pandemic shutdown and a landlord dispute. Last month its windows were still papered over. Tonight the doors open.

Bordeleau told NBC Bay Area that he intends to hold the room lightly. "I feel it belongs more to the regulars and to the neighborhood than it does to me," he said. "I'm just allowed to be the steward of the space right now." It's a measured claim for someone who just spent two years gutting and rebuilding the place, but it reflects something real about what a neighborhood jazz room actually is — not owned so much as borrowed from the people who made it a habit.

Beaulieu is tracking what he describes as a new generation of musicians finding their way to the stage: younger artists crossing electronic music with jazz in combinations that are drawing first-time audiences to Haight Ashbury. "A lot of people are coming to play the room for the first time," he said. "And then there's also a cross-pollination of electronic music and jazz happening that's very popular."

Haight Ashbury logged 560 311 service requests in the past seven days — a neighborhood that stays busy. Four eviction notices were filed in the district in the last 90 days, two on the 800 block of Cole Street.

What someone walking the 1500 block of Haight will find Thursday night: lights on where a dark storefront stood for three years, and whatever the walls gave up during two years of careful work to get them there.