Coltrane Church Eviction Postponed, Lease Extended By 60 Days

Coltrane Church Eviction Postponed, Lease Extended By 60 DaysPhoto: mswine/Flickr
Nuala Sawyer
Published on March 01, 2016

The Saint John Coltrane Church, which was scheduled to be evicted tomorrow morning from the location it's occupied on Fillmore Street since 2000, got a reprieve this afternoon.

As KQED reports, the church's landlord, the West Bay Conference Center, agreed to give the Church a 60-day extension on its lease, which will give it more time to source funds and find a new home. The church and its supporters had been planning a rally at 4pm this afternoon, which will now become a celebration of the extended lease. 

The reprieve for the church, which has been in San Francisco since 1969, is likely only temporary; as we wrote last week, the West Bay Conference Center says that the church hasn't paid rent in 14 months. Last week, District 5 Supervisor London Breed told the Examiner that she may be able to find a home for the church at the soon-to-revamp Fillmore Heritage Center, but that remains up in the air.