Records show that it sold last August for a little less than that: $2.85 million.Īccording to a 2019 real estate listing for the property, Blow Buddies' monthly rent was $13,200, which the previous property owner believed was 'below market rate.' Prior to the pandemic, its lease was set to end in April 2021. It had already shown signs of potential trouble last March, when its building went on the market for $3.5 million.
'The club was created in response to one virus and done in by another,' Blow Buddies writes in a message on its website, alluding to the fact it was able to weather the ravages of the AIDS crisis, but not COVID-19.īlow Buddies operated as a membership- and cover-based venue, with all the furnishings of a well-appointed bathhouse. Landmark gay sex club Blow Buddies (933 Harrison St.), which has operated out of a nondescript SoMa storefront since 1988, will not reopen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
