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Recent Articles

Stewarding Space
The San Francisco Standard: A Market Street building is packed with new tenants. None of them are tech companies
09/27/26CAST in the News
Warfield Commons opens this weekend with 11 local arts and media tenants, plus aerial dancers and puppets to celebrate.
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Securing Space
Denver Business Journal: Former downtown bank branch to get new life as microcinema and gallery
07/13/26CAST in the News
CAST becomes one of the few groups to receive a grant from the Denver Downtown Development Authority for its bold idea of converting a former bank branch into an arts space.
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Securing Space
Denver Westword: City-funded arts projects have Denver on the rise, but some plans are crashing down
07/07/26CAST in the News
As the idea of a downtown Denver hub for immersive theater exits stage left, a Mile High hub for film artists is emerging powered by CAST.
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Securing Space
Novogradac: NMTCs Boost Antenna for Warfield Commons’ Multitenant Structure, Market Street Business Corridor
05/01/26CAST in the News
For more than a century, San Francisco’s Warfield Theatre has hosted some of the biggest names in music and entertainment. Now, CAST and KALW have collaborated to give new life to the building with the help of New Market Tax Credits.
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Securing Space
San Francisco Chronicle: This S.F. neighborhood was left for dead. Now a new wave of entrepreneurs is betting on its comeback
04/26/26CAST in the News
Stroy Moyd never could have imagined opening his comedy club in Mid-Market. Now, he’s among a new wave of entrepreneurs leading the once-abandoned neighborhood’s revival.
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Securing Space
San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. has a stunning shuttered museum for sale. Turning it into something new won’t be simple
03/25/26CAST in the News
The 63,000-square-foot property at 736 Mission St. officially hit the market Wednesday, listed by real estate brokerage Newmark with no asking price.
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Securing Space
Denver Westword: Artists Need Affordable Spaces to Survive In Colorado. This Trust Is Here to Help.
03/10/26CAST in the News
Every morning, Louise Martorano wakes up with one goal in mind: to help artists find affordable studio space and other resources so that they can stay in Colorado.
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Securing Space
The New York Times: Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again?
02/11/26CAST in the News
By Zachary Small Artists have played a vital role in defining the American city only to be forced out when…
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Securing Space
Monocle: What happens when a city decides that its cultural scene is worth saving?
07/20/25CAST in the News
London’s cultural crisis hotline is rescuing studios, theatres and music venues from closure – and New York is taking notice. Could this be the future of urban creative survival?
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Securing Space
San Francisco Examiner: Savvy group sees homes for art groups in low building prices
05/21/25CAST in the News
Ken Ikeda, CEO of the Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST), leverages San Francisco’s plummeting commercial real estate values to secure long-term spaces for arts and cultural organizations.
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San Francisco Chronicle: Massive art and culture hub coming to S.F. pier that’s been empty for more than a decade
04/22/25CAST in the News
The Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST) has secured a lease to transform San Francisco’s long-vacant Pier 29 into the city’s largest artist studio and exhibition space, aiming to revitalize the waterfront and provide affordable, creative space amid downtown’s commercial downturn.
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Securing Space
San Francisco Business Times: New owner will convert Mid-Market building to an arts and culture hub
02/11/25CAST in the News
Arts trust and KALW public radio team up to buy a Mid-Market office building to create an arts and culture hub
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Securing Space
San Francisco Chronicle: This historic S.F. office building was going to become housing, now it’s slated to be an arts hub
02/10/25CAST in the News
CAST provides art organizations a pathway to property ownership, giving artists much-needed space to create and displaytheir work
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Securing Space
KQED: KALW to move into ‘arts hub’ above SF Warfield Theatre
02/10/25CAST in the News
Public media outlet KALW moves into an office space above the Warfield Theatre as result of partnering with arts trust to buy building
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Securing Space
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Real Estate for the Artists
06/11/24CAST in the News
CAST provides art organizations a pathway to property ownership, giving artists much-needed space to create and displaytheir work
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Securing Space
Bloomberg CityLab: One Strategy for the Arts to Beat Gentrification: Buy the Building
05/29/24CAST in the News
A wave of arts nonprofits are turning to new financial and organizational models to survive the pressure of high real estate prices.
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Securing Space
SF Standard: Why Oakland’s Struggling Office Market Was Good News for This Black-Owned Business
05/22/23CAST in the News
With $2.5 million in financing help from CAST and lending support from Community Vision, Oakstop was able to purchase its flagship building at 1721 Broadway for $8 million.
Read more about SF Standard: Why Oakland’s Struggling Office Market Was Good News for This Black-Owned Business
Securing Space
Next City: For Years, Philanthropy Has Been Trying to Buy Buildings For The Arts. Now We Know It Works
05/16/23CAST in the News
San Francisco’s CounterPulse shows how arts organizations can take advantage of a lease-to-own model developed by CAST.
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Securing Space
Broke-Ass Stuart: Big Win for Black Owned Real Estate & Black Artists in Oakland
05/11/23CAST in the News
Oakstop’s purchase of its flagship building represents a big win for art, artists, entrepreneurship, and Black real estate ownership in the Bay Area.
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Securing Space
Coworking provider Oakstop buys flagship office building in Uptown Oakland
05/09/23CAST in the News
Coworking and event space company Oakstop has purchased its flagship office building in downtown Oakland, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Securing Space
San Francisco Business Times: Coworking provider Oakstop buys flagship office building in Uptown Oakland
05/09/23CAST in the News
Coworking company Oakstop has purchased its longtime flagship building in downtown Oakland for $8 million, marking a major step in its mission to use real estate for community empowerment and economic development
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Securing Space
How Cities Are Trying to Save Their Art Scenes From Rising Rents
08/17/17CAST in the News
ARTSY EDITORIAL There’s a stock image of the urban cultural ideal: bustling streets filled with colorfully painted walls, galleries with…
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Community of Practice
CAST in the News
11/14/13CAST in the News
To view coverage on the CAST announcement, click on the links below. ABC 7 News: Pilot project hopes to help…
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Press Archive

November 2013 – Former SF Mayor Edwin M. Lee along with former Director of the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (SFOEWD) Joaquin Torres (far left) and former District Six Supervisor Jane Kim (middle) joined newly formed CAST to announce the purchase of two arts buildings for CounterPulse and the Luggage Store in the Mid-Market and the Tenderloin neighborhoods.

Past Panels & Symposiums

3/11/26 IDA + CDA Place Matters: Securing Downtown’s Creative Future (opens in new tab) (Long Beach, CA)
12/9/25 DiverseWorks: Diverse Discourse: Louise Martorano (opens in new tab) (Houston, TX)
10/6-10/9/25 National Performance Network Conference: Stormshaping | Adaptation, Resistance, Reimagination (opens in new tab) (New Orleans, LA)
6/12/25 Three Lakes Cultural Trust: The Power & the Value of the Creative Economy (opens in new tab) (Queenstown, New Zealand)
5/27-5/30/25 Creative Land Trust Summit 2025 (San Francisco, CA)
5/20/25 Calgary Arts Development: Creative Spaces Speaker Series (opens in new tab) (Calgary, Canada)
5/19/25 Global Cultural Districts Network Annual Convening: Ownership Structures to Support Community Resilience & Equity (opens in new tab) (Los Angeles, CA)
5/17/25 Radical Financial Innovations: Emerging Models in BIPOC Cultural Ecosystems (opens in new tab) (Pittsburgh, PA)
5/6-5/8/25 Social Purpose Real Estate Summit 2025: Unlocking the Power of Place (opens in new tab) (Los Angeles, CA)
4/16/24 California for the Arts CA Arts & Culture Summit 2024: Arts & Housing Work/Space (opens in new tab) (Sacramento, CA)
6/28/23 Arts for a Better Bay Area State of the Arts Summit 2023: Rebuilding Our Communities (opens in new tab) (San Francisco, CA)
4/5/23 Left Bank Co: Making Space for Culture Symposium (opens in new tab) (Sydney, Australia)
3/31/22 Commonwealth Club of California – The Michelle Meow Show: The Art of the Fair Deal: Securing Space for the Arts in San Francisco (opens in new tab) (televised)
10/27/21 NextCity: How To Preserve Arts & Culture Spaces During and After a Pandemic (opens in new tab) (webinar)
10/14/21 Arts for LA: State of the Arts Summit | Affordable Space & the Creative Sector (opens in new tab) (digital conference)
10/20/19 COCAP: Nourishing Community Wealth (opens in new tab) (Oakland/San Francisco, CA)
10/1-10/6/19 After Tomorrow 2019+: Oakland in Saint-Denis (opens in new tab) (Saint-Denis, France)
6/13/19 Northern California Grantmakers: Increasing Access to Space for Artists and Nonprofit Art Organizations (opens in new tab) (San Francisco, CA)
3/4/19 City of Vancouver: Creative City Strategy Symposium | Securing Local Arts and Culture Spaces (opens in new tab) (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
11/14-11/16/18 World Cities Culture Forum: 2018 World Cities Culture Summit | Making Space for Culture (opens in new tab) (San Francisco, CA)
10/25/18 Social Capital Markets: SOCAP 2018 Conference | Creative Workspaces and Quality Jobs (opens in new tab) (San Francisco, CA)
10/23/18 Grantmakers in the Arts: 2018 GIA Conference | Placekeeping and Practice (opens in new tab) (Oakland, CA)
6/4-6/8/18 World Cities Culture Forum & Artscape: Innovations in Creative Space and Placemaking (opens in new tab) (Toronto, Canada)
11/6/14 Northern California Grantmakers: Addressing Displacement of Nonprofit Organizations (opens in new tab) (San Francisco, CA)
10/14/14 Grantmakers in the Arts: The Community Arts Stablilization Trust, An Inventive Model to Secure Affordable Homes for Arts Organizations (opens in new tab) (Houston, TX)
10/3/14 24th International Sculpture Conference: Creative Placemaking and Community Gentrification (opens in new tab) (New Orleans, LA)
9/2/14 SPUR: Fighting Nonprofit Displacement (opens in new tab) (San Francisco, CA)
7/29/14 San Francisco Magazine: Corporate Philanthropy in Today’s Tech World (opens in new tab) (San Francisco, CA)

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CAST In The News

Recent Articles

The San Francisco Standard: A Market Street building is packed with new tenants. None of them are tech companies

Denver Business Journal: Former downtown bank branch to get new life as microcinema and gallery

Denver Westword: City-funded arts projects have Denver on the rise, but some plans are crashing down

Novogradac: NMTCs Boost Antenna for Warfield Commons’ Multitenant Structure, Market Street Business Corridor

San Francisco Chronicle: This S.F. neighborhood was left for dead. Now a new wave of entrepreneurs is betting on its comeback

San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. has a stunning shuttered museum for sale. Turning it into something new won’t be simple

Denver Westword: Artists Need Affordable Spaces to Survive In Colorado. This Trust Is Here to Help.

The New York Times: Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again?

Monocle: What happens when a city decides that its cultural scene is worth saving?

San Francisco Examiner: Savvy group sees homes for art groups in low building prices

San Francisco Chronicle: Massive art and culture hub coming to S.F. pier that’s been empty for more than a decade

San Francisco Business Times: New owner will convert Mid-Market building to an arts and culture hub

San Francisco Chronicle: This historic S.F. office building was going to become housing, now it’s slated to be an arts hub

KQED: KALW to move into ‘arts hub’ above SF Warfield Theatre

Stanford Social Innovation Review: Real Estate for the Artists

Bloomberg CityLab: One Strategy for the Arts to Beat Gentrification: Buy the Building

SF Standard: Why Oakland’s Struggling Office Market Was Good News for This Black-Owned Business

Next City: For Years, Philanthropy Has Been Trying to Buy Buildings For The Arts. Now We Know It Works

Broke-Ass Stuart: Big Win for Black Owned Real Estate & Black Artists in Oakland

Coworking provider Oakstop buys flagship office building in Uptown Oakland

San Francisco Business Times: Coworking provider Oakstop buys flagship office building in Uptown Oakland

How Cities Are Trying to Save Their Art Scenes From Rising Rents

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