Anastasia's Vintage Clothing. After much planning and negotiation with the city, Mad Monk Center for Anachronistic Media opened in April 2016, a 10,000 sq ft book and record store with plans to open a cafe and become an event venue. It abruptly closed permanently on February 26, 2018. He also owns 2503 and 2509 Haste and an empty lot at 2501 Haste Street. The lot at 2501 Haste was the site of a former single room occupancy hotel which catered to low-income residents. It was damaged beyond repair by fires in 1986 and 1990. The lot has been vacant for over 25 years and is the subject of innumerable blight complaints. It was purchased in 1991 in an apparent attempt to prevent the expansion or move of the Amoeba Music to the address. According to Aaron Cometbus in issue 51 of Cometbus, The Loneliness of the Electric Menorah, Sarachan personally delivered more than a million dollars to the property owner in a suitcase to buy the lot out from under Amoeba and the developer. In 2005, Sarachan filed plans to build an apartment and retail complex on the site, but these never came to fruition. In January 2012, the City of Berkeley sued Sarachan over the property. Sarachan eventually sold the property to the development company West Builders, and a student dorm building was completed in 2020. Sarachan is also known for placing new copycat businesses next to perceived competitors. In addition to his actions to prevent Amoeba's expansion in Berkeley, Rasputin Music opened a location in 2013 on Haight Street in San Francisco less than a block from an Amoeba Records location. In 2013, following the success of independent ice cream shop CREAM, Inc. at the corner of Channing and Telegraph and contentious Berkeley city hearings, Sarachan opened an ice cream counter called Scoop Dreams directly across the street. Scoop Dreams, which is now closed, was located at the former security counter in the front of Rasputin Music, about ten yards from CREAM. Acquisition of former Tower Records locations Rasputin Music acquired the leases of four former Tower Records locations: Concord (where the Pleasant Hill store was relocated), Mountain View, Fresno, and Stockton. The Concord store, despite having been under Rasputin's management since 2007, still carried Tower Records signage with no mention of Rasputin; a poster displayed in the window called the Tower Records signage a "Historical Anomaly." The