 Two years later Pacific Ballet offered to let the SF Tap Troupe take over management of building.The group approached the board of the SF Band Foundation and the board agreed to take control of 1519 Mission Street and signed a new lease.The Jon Sims Center opened in 1985 a year after the death of Jon Reed Sims the founder of the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Marching Band and Twirling Corps (now the San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band.