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Best Church-Turned-DIY Stage

Cherrywood Center

Cherrywood Center’s second coming is just as community-centered, but the sounds are a little different. The spacious worship space is doing double duty these days as a meeting place for religious congregations and DIY musicians, hosting intimate indie rock-centered shows in its hallowed, reverberant halls. “When there’s so much change constantly around us, it’s refreshing to go into a space that’s been here longer than all of the condos and re-infuse some energy into it from folks of a younger generation,” Cherrywood Center’s campus manager and booking coordinator Chase Weinacht told the Chronicle in February.