SF Supes Reject CEQA Challenge to The Creamery's Move to the Mission, Upsetting Anti-Gentrification Activists A tech-famous coffeeshop that was the storied birthplace of Airbnb and Stripe, The Creamery, is likely getting to move ahead with its plans to relocate to 14th and Mission streets from its former digs in SoMa. This is despite months of pushback and an environmental-impact appeal by neighborhood activists. With at least one activist invoking The Slanted Door's arrival on Valencia Street three decades ago — considered by some to be an inflection point for Valencia's total gentrification — multiple neighborhood groups, business owners, and activists spoke out this week about why allowing The Creamery into the neighborhood was just one more nail in the coffin for the Mission as they know it. But as Mission Local reports, the Board of Supervisors was not convinced that invoking the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), a common tool of anti-development activists, was not appropriate here. They voted unanimously to shut down the appeal to The Creamery's conditional use permit.