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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: BigFreakinToad

This isn’t Stormfront.


61 posted on 06/23/2023 11:44:56 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

what?


62 posted on 06/23/2023 11:45:32 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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To: BigFreakinToad
This isn't a racist website. I you want that, go somewhere else.

And you do know only about 10 black people still live in SF?

63 posted on 06/23/2023 11:46:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

let me understand “jimmy crack corn” is racist?? are you off your meds?


64 posted on 06/23/2023 11:50:44 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Biden whispered "Don't Jump")
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To: Morgana

Soccer stadium?

I’d say she is stupid but, that would be redundant, since she already knows.

The traffic on Market would suck and they closed off portions of it any to vehicles.

There would be no parking to support such idiocy

Speaking of idiocy, she would be competing with the soccer stadium in Santa Clara and need to get a team.

Hell, San Francisco couldn’t keep the 49’ers

But hey, you can say stupid things when you paid annual salary than the president of the United States


65 posted on 06/23/2023 12:03:01 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Morgana
When I first moved to Pocatello, ID, there was not a LensCrafters anywhere close. I had to drive to Layton, UT to get 1 day service on new eyeglasses. I made the drive and LensCrafters performed their standard quality service.

The next year, we still didn't have a LensCrafters and my eye exam indicated a need to change prescription. I called the LensCrafters store and they indicated they would be open at the time I could arrive (2 hour drive). When I went to the store address I had visited the prior year, I found an abandoned shopping mall. WTF? I called the store. They provided me their new address. What happened? Gang activity at the mall was bad and the spineless police department refused to deal with it. Merchants abandoned the mall including LensCrafters.

66 posted on 06/23/2023 12:34:55 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Morgana

Well, internet shopping has been killing brick and mortar stores and malls all across America, even before Covid lockdowns supercharged the changes. She is not entirely wrong about that.

And she is also correct that soccer is very popular with the new replacement “Americans” the Democrats are bringing in as fast as they can. Maybe another 15 million new soccer fans before 2024 elections? A lot more soccer stadiums will be need.

I could wish she is wrong, but the evidence is on her side. Anyone who can’t see it may well be one of those being replaced.


67 posted on 06/23/2023 12:57:28 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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"A. People were shopping there until the crime got too bad and

B. No one will go to a soccer game with crime up and getting worse. "

C. She has midnight basketball in mind.

68 posted on 06/23/2023 1:05:28 PM PDT by mosaicwolf
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San Fran was a great designation. I was in training there 6 weeks in 1976. My first trip was 74 and it was great. It remains in a beautiful location but spoiled by animals and the politicians without balls.My daughter moved there and worked for Nordstroms till she moved south. Been there dozens of times.

However I remember in the 80s an aggressive bum getting in my face. I started toward him and my girlfriend pulled me back. I would have unholstered but wasn’t carrying thst day. (retired peace officers can carry concealed in Cal if they re-qualify every 90 days).

There was a time when SF gave out free meals at shelters and tourists could get the coupon and give them out instead of cash. The bums rejected the coupons.

That aggressiveness has been getting worse for 35 years and the city does nothing.

Tourist tip. Don’t go. If you do, stay out of the Feces District.


69 posted on 06/23/2023 2:42:26 PM PDT by coalminersson
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a great destination


70 posted on 06/23/2023 2:43:35 PM PDT by coalminersson
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To: Morgana

the usual daily mail hodge podge that gets so much wrong ...

1. westfield hasn’t been abandoned (yet), merely changing operators ... though, actual abandonment by retailers is likely to eventually occur ...

2. shopping at westfield and the market street/union square area was mainly for tourists and conventioneers visiting the area, so online shopping is irrelevant ...

3. the convention center, hotels, and surrounding shopping districts are strongly symbiotic, and all will either thrive together or collapse together, and it’s pretty clear it’s gonna be collapse ...


71 posted on 06/23/2023 2:46:15 PM PDT by catnipman (In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
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