Space 550

Salsa dance on Friday night.
Cover $ 20 at door, but you can get a discount tickets online.
Three dance floors, salsa, bachata, and more …
If you don’t dance, you can enjoy live music or some drink ?
Salsa dance lessons start 8pm.
You can practice there. It’s free.

I’ve been dancing Salsa and Bachata for almost 2 years now and I can say this is my favorite spot in the city right now? Why you ask?
Rooms/​Space:
There’s 3 rooms, 1 for Salsa, 1 for Bachata, and 1 for everything else Latin and non-​Latin. Although the Salsa room isn’t as big as Allegro ballroom in Emeryville, it’s big enough. The Bachata room is bigger than what Café Cocomo and didn’t feel too steamy this time. The 3^rd room is on the second floor with a nice view of the Salsa room, but I don’t dance in there.
Music:
Last time I went the Bachata DJ was terrible, he treated it like a club, switching songs every minute. This time it was much better, and they even had a Bachata sing-​along and provided props for pictures! Salsa music is live every night they’re open and the bands are always great. When they take a break, there’s still music of course.
So if the rooms/​space and music is great, why did I give this place a 4 stars?
1. Why are the restroom doors open all night? Ladies would love privacy
2. One of the toilet stalls in the gent’s restroom doesn’t even have a door
3. Alcohol comes in the world’s smallest cup ever and they’re $ 9-​$ 10 and also not strong at all
4. Water bottle is $ 4 if I remember correctly
5. Coat check is $ 3 – 4
6. No re-​entry? Some ladies might keep a extra pair of shoes in their cars should they get tired, but this policy is evil, basically making people get coat check.
7. $ 20 at the door or $ 10 pre-​sale, The $ 20 is steep, considering it’s not in safest neighborhood nor downtown. Presale is nice but things come up and there’s no refunds.
8. There’s 3 bar stations in the venue but only 1 is utilized, I don’t mind, but it’s a waste of space, if you’re not gonna use it, remove it and turn it into more room for dancing!
9. What’s the point of wristbands if there’s no re-​entry and a 21+ venue?
Although I have all these complaints about this place, it is still the best place to dance in the city since the closure of Café Cocomo. I hope the management can read my review and consider changing some things.

The only place that I’ve been to around the world that charges for tap water!!! That’s simply ridiculous. And considering it’s a Salsa club, where people need to hydrate, it’s inhuman!
The cover charge is super high, unless you get tickets way in advance.
The main dance floor is good. And so is the music, although that depends on a day. But I don’t have a great desire to be coming back regularly!
Wish there was a better place, with a decent size dance floor for Latin Dancing in the area, such as Cocomo.

This place was fun– but they charged me twice when I insisted I had already paid for a ticket. I paid 11.50 and then 20.00 for one night. Trying to call them all week, and they don’t pick up their phone. I need a refund. Thanks.

New to the Bay Area and trying to find my salsa spots, so here Goes: — Space 550 is a fun and certainly a good Salsa Venue in the San Francisco area. I’ve enjoyed my time there and met a diverse mix of people each time I’ve gone, here are some more details: —
Located close to the intersect of highway 101 & 280. In a warehouse type building. Does not have a designated parking lot but I’ve read there is $ 20 parking somewhere nearby. Street parking is available and streets across are well lit.
I’ve attended Friday night Salsa and there is a $ 20 cover, or pay online 2 days in advance to get 50% off. Not sure what the value is for the business paying 2 days in advance vs. walking in??? There are additional fees for coat check $ 4 as well. The cover does include I believe 2 lessons & maybe performances to watch. I’ve never made it that early to take the lessons.
The main dance floor is very spacious with hardwood floors. That’s also where there is a band playing. It starts getting crowded around midnight, so if you want to have more space come earlier. I’ve danced with a mixture of experience levels & styles. It does seem more experienced dancers show up later at night.
There is another room nearby designated for Bachata. Smaller & more congested, it is literally brewing hot sexy sweaty dancers to the bachata beat. DJ is there in in dance floor doing his thing.
The place does have a bar with cocktails ~$ 10, & beer at $ 7. They also had a special drink for $ 9.
As I mentioned above, I’ve certainly enjoyed getting my salsa fix each time I’ve gone. Lots of cool & diverse Salseros! However the cover charge & location makes this venue a 3 star in my opinion. I consider the cover & additional fees excessive, and location is a bit sketchy, but otherwise that’s what you should expect.
Looking forward to more Salsa in the Bay!
Viva La Salsa!

Dance Fridays at Space 550 offers group beginner salsa and bachata lessons starting at 8pm followed by social dancing to live music from a different salsa band each week. Two room are available for dancing until 2:30am: the larger one for salsa and the smaller one for bachata. The bachata room is more popular and has better dancers. The salsa band starts packing up around 1am. Restrooms are large and clean. Bar area is enormous. Parking is free on the street and neighboring building lots. Cover charge is $ 20! I’d give this place another star if the cost was half of that. There’s an additional $ 4 charge to check a coat — and $ 6 for a handbag.

The space and atmosphere is nice enough with plenty of seating throughout the club. That was the positive… now for the negative… Only one bar which serves waaaay overpriced drinks. I mean come on $ 21 for a beer and a mai tai? On top of that the cover charge was $ 25 for a mediocre band. And the bachata room put me to sleep because no one was there mainly because the dj wasn’t playing good songs. Oh well, I gave it a shot… i was broke and disappointed by the end of the night.

It was a nice club, the music was off the hook and current so I was happy. I went when Nikki Baby came from Love & Hip Hop. It was a good mixture of people and huge dance floor. Pretty good choice of drinks. Only reason I gave it a 4 star instead of 5 was because we ordered bottle service & the booth we got was sooo tiny and barely fit our party of 10. I will definitely go back. But note to Dj, the songs are good! Quit changing them so fast and let them play a minute at least! Like 15 seconds in the song he changed it but at least it was all good music. No complaints

Venue is not bad. Floor is nice, relatively ventilated, bathrooms are pretty clean. Have only been here for salsa. Music and crowd are a bit hit or miss. It’s the new Cocomos. A little too expensive for what it is, probably won’t be back unless desperate.

Good place to dance salsa to a live band. Big, smooth floor.
Separate (smaller) room with reggaeton /​occasional hiphop music.
BIG MINUS IS THE $ 20 COVER.

Honestly I do not like to leave one star but I needed to.
I arrived at 10:30 pm on a Saturday night and it was easy for me to find a parking spot near by the club but the area was a bit sketchy so we walked to the club fast.
Bars:
Two different bartenders charged me differently in one booth. One young Hispanic male charged me $ 9.00 for a shot of whiskey but an Asian female charged me $ 10 for the same kind of whiskey also less amount. Too expensive drinks in plastic cups. What’s up with that? NO Tap beers. only five different kind of bottled beers. NO money to buy liquids?
Music:
good and I like it. speakers were blasting music and lighting system was awesome!
Coat Check:
$ 3.00 but no one was there.
I will avoid this place for the sack of different prices of shots even there were same whiskey.

Came here because a friend’s group was headlining for the night, so I had VIP access for the night… but this still couldn’t raise my rating to more than 2 stars…
The good:
— Parking. Not typical SF cause this is in the boonies of SF. Street parking available but you’re in a warehouse.
— The Asian promoters (sorry don’t know the group) were super nice and friendly.
The not so good:
— Despite having wristbands and being told by the organizer/​head promoter of the event that I could go anywhere in the club including the upstairs VIP area by the stairs, when we tried to do so, security refused to let us up.
— Likewise, while we were in a different VIP bottle service area, security let people not in our group into our area, yet tried to deny us access to our own area.
— The crowd is on the opposite end of classy.
— They ran out of glass cups for bottle service so they gave us drinks in plastic cups… and no I’m not talking about the sturdy clear or red plastic cups… I’m talking about the ones you can bend with a pinky … the super super cheap ones. You’ll find better cups at house parties than this place.
Ahhhh avoid.

Once upon a time in the magical Land of San Francisco there was a Club Venue…
SITREP
…and it was THE BEST club venue I’ve ever been too here in California.
The wonderful thing about 550 Barneveld (aka Space 550) is that it is a fantastic club space set in the warehouse district south of Downtown SF.
SETUP
In the late 90s and early 2000s this was a «go-​to» venue for some of the best DJ-​dance events I ever experienced, including New Wave City (NWC) and Death Guild (sometimes both going on simulataneously, because there were not just one, nor just two but THREE (3) great rooms for music and dancing.
The larger ballroom area held some of the best NWC events I’d ever experienced, including some of the most fun «Prom Nights». In the large second room some of the best Death Guild’s happened here, including a fantastic VNV Nation concert after-​party where my friends and I got to hang out with Ronan himself.
My buddy Matt Hite was often DJing in the upstairs Bubble Lounge where he mixed some of the tightest electronica and trance beats.
FETISH BALLS
This location also hosted some of the most spectacular Fetish Balls where 3 rooms of spanking fun was to be had. How I miss that!
TIMES A CHANGIN
I’ve been back here periodically over the years for some other random hip hop and house party events, but nothing that has grabbed me with the same energy as a decade ago, which just goes to show that a space is only as good as the promoters and DJs who put on the events. But it’s still a fun place to dance.
THE LOWDOWN
Space 550 is a great dance event space if you are lucky enough to experience it.

I came here to celebrate Halloween with my friends. Paid extra for VIP with open bar. The general admission line was faster than our VIP line — ridiculous! Drank some wells drink from open bar and ended up shelling out money to buy regular drinks! VIP is a total waste of money. The VIP section/​mini dance floor upstairs was boring and all my friends ended up leaving to go downstairs anyways. This club is mainly electronic (which would be fun if I was in the rave scene) but for a Halloween night out, I need my hip hop. This club was a fail.

Too bad I can’t give this place a ZERO. This place is a horrible venue to have parties! Fortunately, I was with great company & was pretty buzzed before I stepped in. I’ve gone to a several raves already, and I’d admit that this is the PERFECT place to hold electronic events. However, I went here for their New Years Eve event, and I was NOT impressed!
The place wasn’t decorated as much as I imagined. The bar area was tiny. There were a lot of creepy guys. One guy was so rude and didn’t even noticed he kicked my foot when he walked past me. I found out the next day he kicked the nail off of my toe and my shoe had blood all over it. Anyway, the drinks were given in small plastic cups and tasted horrible! Also, I was told (didn’t remember much of this) that their midnight balloon drop wasn’t that extravagant either. It consisted of a little confetti. They didn’t even hype up the crowd, the countdown felt more rushed and I think others didn’t even know it was almost midnight until they said it.
By the end of the night I somehow ended up outside with my friends. It seemed like half of the people in the club ended up outside. All the alcohol finally caught up with me by then so I didn’t really care, but it just shows how much «fun» people were really having if they were spending it outside. Yeah, I’m never going to this venue again!

This place sucks, not much more to say.
Came here for new year’s eve. Took me half an hour to get a drink, and there’s 4 bars.
1 bonus star for having a cool light wall, but besides that… I have nothing good to say, so i’ll leave it at that.

The operator of a San Francisco nightclub said that the Labor Day Shakedown, a benefit concert featuring Bay Area rappers, will not be happening at his venue.
Fifteen rappers, including Oakland’s Too Short, were expected to perform next Friday at Space550, using some proceeds to help Juliana Peña, a South San Francisco 2-​year-​old who is fighting the rare cancer neuroblastoma. But an attorney for Space550 said the contract for the event was signed by a former manager without the owner’s consent.
«It’s an unfortunate situation,» said Mark Rennie, an attorney for the Bayview nightclub. «The first time we even knew about the concert, someone was calling up to buy tickets to the Too Short concert. We said, ‘What Too Short concert?’ «
CoBlooded the Great, an organizer who was performing at the event, said this week that he had a signed contract with the club and stands to lose $ 15,000 or more if the event doesn’t go forward. On Wednesday, he said through a publicist that he’s still working on a solution and hopes the benefit for Juliana can go forward, possibly at another venue.
Rennie said a final decision has been made not to have the event at Space550 after consulting with police and the San Francisco Entertainment Commission. Club owners say the contract is void because the promoters didn’t plan for security or secure liability insurance.
«We don’t know which way is up, to be honest with you,» Rennie said. «Everybody is of the opinion to just keep the club closed and see what the fallout is. (If people) file lawsuits, we’ll just have to deal with it.»
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Do Not Come Here.
Total Waste Of Time & Money.

When I went here I had a good time, a good turn out of all my friends, so nothing much to really complain about. I was chatting it up with the bartender so was given extra strong drinks. Being nice and personable goes a lot way (and i’m not a typically cutesy sexy girl. i’m NOT)
When I went the DJ played all the top hits so there’s nothing that I could complain about– DJs differ and each venue change djs every night so you can’t really judge a place like that.
Parking– super easy… the area is slightly ghetto and is in a bunch of warehouses. The actual club was a warehouse. but it turned out to be nice because the celings were high, it didn’t get too stuffy and it was actually cold inside. When I went it was 80’s theme so I always snuck into the 80’s room (which was EMPTY) and danced the night away in there with my friends.
I had some creeper pretty much dance rape me from behind so that wasn’t cool. I hate when guys just go behind you and rub their crotch all over you. it’s not nice, guys.

I don’t know how I end up here, but in my defense, it’s never my idea.
My last visit was for my friend’s bachelorette party. We arrived in a limo and were allowed to enter first. After paying the $ 10 admission fee, we entered and quickly realized: (a) where the hell is everyone? and (b) there are no dudes here. Seriously, how often does that happen? Most clubs are a sausage-​fest, but Space 500 was full (and I use that term loosely considering how empty the place was) of short, cute Asian girls dancing together in a circle… and then there were me and my friends. The only brown-​skinned women there. Wait, isn’t this the Bayview? I’m confused as to how this happened. And what’s worse, when small groups of guys starting arriving, they just stood around watching us — maybe they were intimidated by the women-​to-​men ratio? But anyway that was weird.
About the venue…
It’s a large industrial loft with high ceilings. There are two bars — the largest being near the main entrance. And being that this place is in the Bayview, parking is relatively easy. The venue itself is okay, and I wouldn’t mind going more often except that their parties suck. They should really partner up with better promoters.
Anyhow, we decided we actually liked the lack of men since that gave us the freedom to dance and have fun without worrying about some dude inviting himself to crotch thrust behind us as we danced. I hate when guys do that, BTW. It’s so creepy.
We drank a little and then decided we were bored so we left to Mission Rock, where the dance floor was crowded and hot, and the security folks were dicks. Sigh… we never win.