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San Francisco Mayor London Breed floats idea of DEMOLISHING Westfield mall in crime-ridden downtown and replacing it with a sports stadium - as she brushes off city's retail apocalypse because 'a lot of people' shop online
Daily Mail UK ^
| June 23, 2023
| Will Potter
Posted on 06/23/2023 9:22:18 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: ALPAPilot
"The closing of the Hilton is much more ominous for them. That was the center of the convention business - it’s a massive hotel. It has to be devestating to the tourist business."
I'd say that the rampant crime, abundance of filthy homeless people, open drug use, and the feces and urine all over the place, are more devastating. The closing of the Hilton is just a consequence of the disease.
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posted on
06/23/2023 10:37:08 AM PDT
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
To: Morgana
Why wouldn’t you just let the homeless take it over as they have the whole city?
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posted on
06/23/2023 10:48:14 AM PDT
by
mom.mom
(...our flag was still there.)
To: Morgana
She really is that much of an idiot isn't she?London Breed has replaced Rice-a-Roni as the San Francisco treat
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posted on
06/23/2023 10:49:25 AM PDT
by
Ahithophel
(Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
To: Morgana
So she is proposing a grand venue for bread and circuses, paid for with MASSIVE debt and taxes
Where have I heard that before?
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posted on
06/23/2023 10:49:58 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Morgana
No one will go to a soccer game with crime up and getting worse.No one will go to a soccer game anyway.
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posted on
06/23/2023 10:51:23 AM PDT
by
pfflier
To: Leaning Right
“I struggle to understand how going to a soccer stadium would be any safer.”
More cops and don’t prosecute them for being rude to a thug.
To: Morgana
San Fran area is not that big of a Sports town these days.
Some of the local news shows are in the process of removing the Sports reporter and just having the Anchor give scores in his report.
They are better off inviting charter schools in or renting to eldercare facilities.
To: Morgana
So many possibilities...
-FEMA death camp
-Housing complex for unaccompanied minor immigrants
-Yet another Amazon distribution warehouse
-World’s largest crack house
-New city park where people can bring the kiddies and walk the dogs......LOL
-Drive in theater... lol, just imagine
-World’s largest WaHo (waffle house)
etc
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posted on
06/23/2023 10:55:57 AM PDT
by
Bobalu
(Ron DeSantis is the Bud Light of politics)
To: Morgana
'You can convert spaces,' she said. 'A Westfield mall could become, you know, something completely different than what it currently is... we could even tear down the whole building and build a whole new soccer stadium.'
With whose tax money? SF taxpayers are leaving - the addicts crapping in the street aren't going to give up their fentanyl funds to demolish Westfield and build a soccer stadium. And once it gets built, no one else is going to sidestep the needles and feces to go watch a game no one cares about in the US.
To: nickcarraway
To: TomGuy
How long before the $billion complex is empty — because of the area being crime-ridden? It will never be empty. The homeless tent city will fill the field.
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posted on
06/23/2023 11:01:32 AM PDT
by
hattend
(F U Pedo Joe.)
To: Morgana
I'm surprised she didn't propose to repurpose it as homeless housing. Just buy the Japanese "homeless hotel" plans...
![](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2010/01/02/business/02capsule_CA0/popup.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)
Think how many people such a large building could house!
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posted on
06/23/2023 11:04:02 AM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
To: Morgana
Exactly. No one wants their cars broken into, and public transportation is unsafe and unsanitary. So who would come to a stadium in San Francisco? The Giants are struggling for attendance now.
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posted on
06/23/2023 11:08:28 AM PDT
by
realcleanguy
(quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
To: Morgana
B. No one will go to a soccer game with crime up and getting worse.Corrected:
No one will go to a soccer game with crime up and getting worse.
To: Morgana
The thing you have to understand about London Breed is in SF political terms, she is ultraconservative. She feuded with the new breed progressive DA Chesa Boudin. She helped get him booted out of office. So she’s not as insensitive to crime as some of her peers.
To: Morgana
Now there’s an idea. Replace a mall everyone is afraid
to go to, with a stadium everyone is afraid to go to !!!
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posted on
06/23/2023 11:13:08 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Morgana
Maybe they can do midnight basketball there.
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posted on
06/23/2023 11:34:34 AM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
To: Morgana
It would just turn into a target rich environment for the criminal element.
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posted on
06/23/2023 11:43:16 AM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/23/2023 11:44:18 AM PDT
by
BigFreakinToad
(Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
To: Morgana
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posted on
06/23/2023 11:44:56 AM PDT
by
BigFreakinToad
(Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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