San Francisco Chief Economist Ted Egan debunks 'doom loop' talk and reveals SF consumer spending is nearing pre-pandemic levels.

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to relax zoning laws in Union Square and Downtown to encourage retailers and office tenants to fill vacancies. Improve commercial retail and create housing opportunities with the city's effort.

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.

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.

Old Navy's flagship store on Market Street at Fourth will close on July 1, joining the growing list of retailers leaving San Francisco.

Bad news for SF fans of the midcentury knockoff sofas and other modern accouterments sold by CB2 — the brand's 15-year-old store on Ellis Street, next to the newly open Central Subway entrance, is giving up the ghost.

One of San Francisco’s busiest shopping areas is losing another big retailer: The Container Store. But it's just moving elsewhere in SoMa.

Another pop-up is moving into Union Square: Smartphone maker Samsung is about to open up a temporary shopping experience inside the former Uniqlo store at 111 Powell Street.

Bouncing back from bankruptcy, the once-ubiquitous toy retailer Toys R Us will rear its giraffe head again in San Francisco, inside the Union Square Macy’s store, as early as October 15.

While it won't be there forever, the long-empty Forever 21 storefront in downtown San Francisco will have the candy emporium It'Sugar occupying the place while the building converts to office space.

Van Cleef & Arpels — a centuries-old jewelry chain founded in Paris — and the luxury fashion company Chanel recently acquired new retail store locations in Union Square that are set to debut this year, each real estate investment existing as a sign that downtown SF is rebounding.

The latest retail casualty in the ongoing shutter parade around Union Square — and in the ongoing retail decline nationwide — is the Market Street/Westfield Mall location of Abercrombie & Fitch.

The largest hotel on the west coast is back in business Monday, May 24th, but not at full capacity, and not with its 46th floor panoramic-view bar just yet.