Posted on 09/17/2025 3:58:17 AM PDT by dennisw
READ MORE: Future of mall favorite's 1.4k shops in the air as buyer swoops in
Shops in San Francisco's most iconic mall can't catch a break.
The San Francisco Centre, once a shining beacon of economic strength featuring a multi-level golden spiral staircase and ornate Corinthian columns, has been snowballing into oblivion.
Shops have been closing for years. Owners have stopped paying their rent. Auctions for the building's sale have been continually postponed.
And now, 93 percent of the mall's 1.56 million square feet of retail is vacant.
At its peak, more than 200 stores attracted deal-seeking shoppers, but today, the mall's directory only lists 27 open stores.
Officials have blamed the iconic mall's downturn on pandemic lockdowns, rampant retail theft, and concerns about homelessness.
Opening its doors in 1988, the structure was a nine-story building with multiple flagship stores, and created a San Franciscan phrase, 'Meet me under the Dome.'
In 2009, the mall won a best-of-the-best award from the International Council of Shopping Centers.
However, cracks in the iconic structure's surface appeared in 2023, when Nordstrom, its largest store, decided to close.
Will crime get worse in Dem-run cities?
Yes No Not sure Westfield, America's largest chain of malls, stopped paying its $558million mortgage quickly after.
That started a dam break that has seen more than 100 stores close. This year alone has seen Zara, Milk Tea, and Michael Kors shutter their locations in the shopping center.
'We are hopeful to be back to serve the San Francisco community in the future,' a Macy's spokesperson said in January while announcing Bloomingdale's was shutting down its five-story location 21 years before the end of the lease.
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Malls are a thing of the past...Outdoor strip malls are the trend today...
And the left is all giddy saying “I voted for that.”
I have heard several folks around here talk about Republicans staying home—but every serious study I have seen show that nonvoters have ideological views almost identical to folks that do vote.
What the nonvoters have in common is that politics is low on their priority.
To be blunt—the most successful tactic to get them to vote is to terrify them about the evils of the other side.
Both parties recognize this—and that is why the discourse of politics is negative ads and hostility.
It does not work that well—but it is better than nothing so they keep doing it.
Just an addition to my post...
The most practical way to get non voters to vote (and there have been studies on this as well) is to work through organizations where they are participating.
That generates peer pressure which is reasonably effective.
In the Texas State Legislature, they have a Republican majority, but those Republicans you say conservatives complain are not pure enough, have given the Democrats power, because they are not with the conservative Republicans.
So, perhaps you do not fully understand that some Republicans are indeed not worth voting for. What good are these Republicans, if they continually go against the majority of the base?
Can you explain how these Republicans help the cause?
Perhaps the problems lie within the Republican structure, or perhaps it is people like yourself that keeps returning these people to office because you only think that having the majority is enough to get what is needed enacted to turn around the ship.
If only that were the reality.
How about voting for the other Republican running in the primary ,instead of sending the same disappointing legislator back to yet again stymie the conservative agenda.
The definition of insanity is to keep trying the same thing over & over again and expecting a different result this time.
Perhaps with a new candidate, those people just might come vote, instead of sitting out the election. You know already, that they will not come out to vote for the incumbent who repeatedly betrays them & their vote.
“Both parties recognize this—and that is why the discourse of politics is negative ads and hostility.”
Not negative enough on our side. Lee Atwater understood you have to play by THEIR RULES, so he made sure that “Willie Horton” was a household name. The media BLASTED him for it (and later the Dems took him out), but he was able to get a pathetic candidate into the White House. But with the non-stop media attacks, our side was tricked into never going to that level again.
We have our “Willie Horton” in the guy who killed the Ukrainian babe. Will we use it? Probably most people even here would be afraid to...but remember the point about Willie Horton had NOTHING to do with Willie Horton being a bad guy, or being a black guy, it was TOTALLY directed at The Loser for not keeping him where he belonged, which was in jail.
You’re as blind as a bat!
They are finding out.
“That Republican you talk about usually votes with the Democrats anyway. That is the point you miss.”
The Republicans that I talk about are the ones in the Senate, and I’d you to point out a SINGLE Democrat in the US Senate that votes more conservative than the worst Republican in the Senate.
It’s not possible. Trump got his Supreme Court justices through BECAUSE OF RINOs, even though some voted against him...but NEVER all of them, more like one or two out of 10 voted against him. For example Cornyn, who clearly fits your description of “usually voting with the Democrats”, but he voted for EVERY TRUMP JUDGE.
...so, again, which Senator voted for all of Trump’s judges, or even most of the contested ones? NONE.
‘Purity’ demands on our side simply EMPOWERS DEMOCRATS at this point, whether or not we’re capable of understand that. Go back a couple of decades, to the days of Lloyd Benson, and there was some overlap between the parties...but not anymore, not by a long shot.
If I didn’t know better, I would think this article was about the mall in Shanghai
President Trump’s brilliant “Kamala cares about they/them” ads were examples of powerful negative ads because they combined all of the Democrat horrors in just a few words.
The Democrats love of criminals and hatred of law abiding citizens is just one of their evils.
Unfortunately the Democrat Party owns a long list of other Satanic policies.
Outstanding campaign ads figure out a way to combine all of them in simple concepts.
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Or, as in the case of Jim Lankford of Oklahoma, Democrats run as Republicans. And win.
Turn it into housing for the homeless.
They just opened The Nash casino at the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, NH. This is a mall that opened in the 1980s. It is right on the MA border. In fact the parking lots actually extend over the line into MA. The was built to take advantage of the fact that NH does not have a sales tax. Where as MA does.
The Nash casino now occupies the store area that was once Sears. It is two floors and probably over 100K sq feet.
This is the THIRD casino to open in Nashua in the last couple years. They changed the law to allow casinos IF they donate a percentage of their profits to charity.
This is to gain casino market share from the people of NH/MA instead of going to the Encore that opened on the north side of Boston a couple years back. Plus the MGM in Springfield. MA. Plus Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods in eastern CT. Plus NH has online sports betting as of a couple years now.
This is one of the main reasons why Atlantic City and Las Vegas are in decline. There is now a casino within 1-2 hours of almost ever major metro area in the USA. So, unless you are going to one of these Resort Casinos for other reasons(like seeing a concert/show or golf or sun/weather) there is no reason to go there anymore.
The other big lie was the TAX benefit that they all promoted to these state governments. The revenue from gaming/gambling at the MGM in Springfield, MA and The Encore just outside of Boston is not what it was touted.
This is similar to the tax benefit from legalizing marijuana. The state of CO is not seeing the tax revenue at nearly the rates that they expected. That is because there is still illegal weed that can be bought for much less.
“And now, 93 percent of the mall’s 1.56 million square feet of retail is vacant. “
That makes it very difficult for the occupants of the remaining 7% to stay in business, as shoppers are turned off by the environment with so many empty spaces.
Yes, that too is a reality. 👍
It has been a great benefit for CARDBOARD demand.
However, it has also increased the amount of cardboard in the trash stream.
At my towns trash transfer station we have TWO dumpsters for Cardboard. We only have one dumpster for every other form of trash/recyclables. Fortunately here in NH we have a place that we can actually SELL the cardboard to that is within reasonable trucking distance. This means that we can basically break even on the trucking cost to dispose of the cardboard.
As opposed to other “recyclables” like Aluminum and Steel that are actual money makers. Aluminum makes us money. We sell it for more than the trucking cost. Steel/tin is the same story. We make a little bit of money selling it.
Mixed clean paper is loses money, but does not cost as much as disposing of mixed trash on a per/ton basis.
Nixed trash get BURNED by Wheelabrator at their incinerator.
Where they make electricity. It costs money to truck it there. Then we pay they X amount per ton to take it.
Construction debris is the most expensive trash to dispose of because it has to go to a particular land fill.
Where we pay the highest per ton basis to dispose of it, plus trucking.
“Or, as in the case of Jim Lankford of Oklahoma, Democrats run as Republicans. And win.”
Yep, here in Texas we had Governor Perry forever, and he was pretty nuts - including pushing for mandatory vaccines for HPV for school children (so they could have wild and crazy sex), and building toll roads like mad and even handing over our FREEWAYS to foreign companies for tolling.
BUT, he still kept us out of the Medicaid Expansion that was part of Obamacare, even though it was promised to be paid 100 Percent by the feds - he just knew we’d be stuck with it in the future, and he was TOTALLY RIGHT.
And despite the RINO-run Texas House, we have VOTER ID here...does anyone here think that would be the case if Democrats ran the Texas House. Anyone?
Bottom line - you DO NOT WIN against RINOs by empowering Democrats...all that does is embolden them to, even more, destroy the country, as we’ve seen time and time again.
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