Thee Parkside, at 1600 17th Street, stopped booking live music in March after a developer outbid owner Malia Spanyol at $1.33 million. Bottom of the Hill, at 1233 17th, books its last show New Year's Eve. Two rooms, one stretch of street, both going dark in 2026.

At 1600 17th Street in Potrero Hill, the graffiti on the patio wall reads: "This will be condos you can't afford." Thee Parkside — the punk bar and venue registered under Jack Of Hearts LLC to owner Malia Spanyol, operating at that address since at least 2002 — stopped booking live music at the end of March 2026. The building is slated for demolition. Down the same street, at 1233 17th, Bottom of the Hill will take its last booking on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2026. Two rooms, one stretch of street, both going dark in the same year.

The two closures came by different routes. Thee Parkside's was forced. When the building's previous owner died, Spanyol had first rights to buy — but a developer outbid her at $1.33 million for the 1911 structure, which began life as a lunch counter called Frank's Place. Thrillhouse Records, a local label that had booked shows in the space, put the stakes plainly after the announcement: "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."

Bottom of the Hill's exit is more deliberate. Owners Ramona Downey, Kathleen Owen, and Lynn Schwarz — who opened the venue in 1991 — announced in January that 2026 would be a "final revolution," their term for a victory lap before shutdown. They cited rising costs and shifting demographics; per reporting cited by KTVU, the owners also connected the decision to what they described as an "increasingly corporate media landscape." Rolling Stone had called the venue — BOTH, in the affectionate local shorthand — "the best place to hear live music in San Francisco" in 1999. The owners' message to regulars: come celebrate, not with a whimper, but a bang.

Lambgoat, which covered Thee Parkside's closing announcement in January, noted the coincidence without editorializing: "Two legendary San Francisco venues within blocks of each other, gone within a matter of months."

The gap shows up in real time. A poster on r/AskSF this week asked if anyone wanted to go to punk, pop-punk, emo, or rock shows — a new Stanford postdoc, recently arrived, feeling isolated, looking for community and venue recommendations. The post drew 24 upvotes and 12 comments. The map they're consulting is already being redrawn: the two rooms that would have been the obvious first answer on 17th Street are either closed or in their final months.

At 1233 17th, Bottom of the Hill's calendar runs shows most nights through December. At 1600, the bar is still open, serving out its final stretch before the developer moves in.