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Committee sends Mel’s Drive‑In lease to full Board without recommendation as SFMTA works to correct pandemic-era lease amendments
Summary
Committee members advanced a retroactive lease for Mel’s Drive‑In at 5th & Mission to the full Board without recommendation and pressed SFMTA to formalize 17 other pandemic-era verbal rent-abatement agreements by April 2026, citing internal-control weaknesses.
The Budget & Finance Committee on Nov. 5 considered a retroactive commercial lease between the city and San Francisco CNC (doing business as Mel’s Drive‑In) for retail space at 5th & Mission Garage. Kasaya Tang of SFMTA’s Real Estate Division presented the lease terms (an initial five-year term with a five-year extension option; projected revenue roughly $1.9 million over five years under an 8% gross-receipts rent structure) and disclosed that staff recently discovered a…
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