Inside the Musto Building, a space in San Francisco’s Financial District that once housed a marble mill and a candy warehouse, a pair of Internet multimillionaires has founded a members-only club called the Battery. It includes a wine cellar, a spa, and a poker room. The inclusiveness doesn’t extend very far beyond that.
For the New Yorker‘s Currency blog, our film editor Anisse Gross examines the problems inherent in the opening of a $2400-a-year club in San Francisco.
Given the rapidly morphing culture of the city, issues of gentrification and diversity aren’t—ahem—exclusive to the Battery.
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