Although 2023 is shaping up to be a positive year after the conference hall largely languished during the pandemic, forecasts beyond this year show worrying signs of weakness on the horizon.
I ate there once. It was ok. I wouldn’t call it iconic.
The abyss
At what point will the “”smart”” dems running these cities say,crap,we really did need business for tax revenue......
Too bad. I seem to recall some pretty good food there during my Silicon Valley days...forty years ago.
Vendome? When are you moving to civilization?
The death spiral starts slowly, then accelerates.
Thnx to the policies of our Covid overlords, restaurants and many other businesses that supported and relied on businesses in the area they were located are dying for a lack of patrons that frequented their establishments before Covid.
The entire Financial District of San Francisco is probably only at 20%-30% utilization.
Same with Downtown Oakland
I have no idea how they would come back anytime soon.
In fact, a recent article "The San Francisco Standard", an online publication, had this to say:
Although 2023 is shaping up to be a positive year after the conference hall largely languished during the pandemic, forecasts beyond this year show worrying signs of weakness on the horizon.
While tourism officials are expecting robust activity at Moscone Center this year, the forecast looks a lot less rosy in 2024 and beyond, according to projections presented at SF Travel’s marketing summit Tuesday.
Events at Moscone provide much-needed foot traffic to Downtown small businesses, a flood of direct spending from event organizers and a foundation of hotel bookings for the broader hospitality industry. In 2022, for example, convention and event attendee spending reached around $587 million.
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Such glowing reports from the local newscaster and you see this projection that The Moscone Center will not recove their revenue and traffic anytime soon and projections out to the year 2030 show they expect, at best, to have only some 20% of hotel bookings when compared to 2019.
Great job city, county and state leaders.
You have truly saved the planet from greenhouse gas emissions.
I’ve always enjoyed The Fish Market. Been eating at their Palo Alto location since 1978. Not often, but two or three times a year. They’ve always had good, fresh seafood and fish at reasonable prices and well cooked.
There are so many bad things happening: Anchor Steam is out of business and stopped brewing. Now The Fish Market.
Pinging buddy Nick Carraway.
Fifty years but they were just leasing?
More commerce succumbing to s#!thole city status.
Side note, you think today Libs can Hunt and fish? Going to get interesting folks...
The Fish Market Restaurant should move to Florida and do business in a free state. They would love it. We would welcome them.
Does anyone else appreciate the irony that the closing of the Fish Market was announced by The MERCURY News. Once again toxicity destroys the liberal environment.