We've known about this for almost two weeks, but just couldn't wrap our heads around it. It had to be a hoax. Sounds like a hoax, and like so many hoaxes makes perfect sense. But in the end, "Adult" sites rake in huge bucks every year. Certainly more than "Real Estate Blogs". And so one of the Mission District's least-friendly landmarks, the San Francisco Armory, passes into a new era of discipline as the headquarters for Kink.com:
With 9 highly trafficked sites including Hogtied.com, FuckingMachines.com and WaterBondage.com, Kink.com has always prided itself on producing genuine, original and all exclusive fetish material and has an enormous archive of exclusive video and photo content... full of period detail including cavernous dungeon-like basements, stone corridors, sweeping staircases, and a gigantic drill court with 90 ft ceilings spanning almost an acre. Kink.com will brand its products around this historic monument as well as using its interior for the production of its existing and new product lines.After almost a decade of attempts at some kind of adaptive re-use, this seems to be the perfect fit.
· About Kink.Com [SFArmory]
· The Armory: 20 More years of Empty? [Curbed SF]