San Francisco's "Downtown Apocalypse" Be Damned, As Retail Experts Predict Recovery As Soon As 2024
With significant pain ahead for troubled downtown and Westfield mall areas, retail experts are now predicting recovery in San Francisco may be possible as soon as 2024.
Historic $19.5 Million Payout to Hotel Whitcomb: The Inside Story of San Francisco's Costliest Shelter-In-Place Settlement
San Francisco approves a record $19.5 million settlement for Hotel Whitcomb due to damages incurred during the city's shelter-in-place program. The details behind this unprecedented settlement and its potential impact on the city's future reimbursements resulted in mixed reactions.
Westfield, San Francisco's Premier Mall, to Abandon Downtown Loan, Adding to SF's Exodus of the Largest Hotel, Nordstrom, & Others
Westfield decides to give up its famed San Francisco mall, signaling a potentially alarming trend in the city's retail landscape and raising questions on the future of downtown San Francisco.
Nordstrom at Westfield Mall in San Francisco is closing, and so is the nearby Nordstrom Rack
In one of the most surprising developments in San Francisco’s post-pandemic retail apocalypse, Nordstrom now says it will close its giant, 312,000-square-foot department store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre, open since 1988.
A Parkside cannabis dispensary upstairs from a restaurant gets approved, but its ‘edibles lounge’ not approved
Taraval Street’s Gold Mirror restaurant will be getting an upstairs cannabis dispensary called Green Mirror, over the objections of many neighbors, but it was not granted the “edibles consumption lounge” the dispensary had wanted.
Whole Foods at Eighth and Market shuts down just one year after opening
Wow, that was fast. The “flagship” mid-Market Whole Foods that opened at Eighth and Market Streets in March 2022 only lasted until April 2023, and as of Tuesday, the store is no longer operating.
Fisherman’s Wharf Safeway announces it’s closing permanently on May 27
The biggest grocery store in the Fisherman’s Wharf-North Beach area is set to close, as Safeway confirms they’re shuttering the Northpoint Centre Safeway on May 27.
Fisherman's Wharf to get new It'Sugar store Friday, next to wax museum
Following a successful pop-up near Union Square, the popular candy megastore It'Sugar (pronounced It's Sugar, FYI) is opening a big new location next to Fisherman's Wharf on Friday.












