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Posted on 01/14/2026 1:17:25 PM PST by Olog-hai
And then there were none. The Panda Express in the basement food court of downtown’s San Francisco Centre, the city’s largest mall, has closed, leaving the woebegone retail destination without any restaurants.
A sign informs visitors that the Panda Express location is permanently closed and that they can visit other locations in the city for its orange chicken and other Chinese American dishes. […]
The mall’s new owners, a group of lenders associated under the name DBJPM 2016-SFC Emporium, bought the mall’s debt in November. Earlier this month, they sent unlawful detainer notices to three of the mall’s remaining tenants informing them that their leases had been terminated, the first step in a commercial eviction process.
The other holdout inside the food court, Shake Shack, closed on Dec. 18, eliminating 26 jobs. In a layoff notice sent to California labor officials, the burger chain cited the mall’s sale and a requirement from the new owner that all tenants vacate the premises. …
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So, the new owners of the mall are clearing it out?
The Panda has left the building!
It’s a shame. SF has notorious homeless and shoplifting chaos.
But I hate online shopping - I feel for the shoppers.
How does one online shop for dine-in restaurant food?
I don’t know what is more surprising. That any mall remains open San Francisco’s openly hostile business environment, or that a major, affluent city like San Francisco is managed so poorly that one of the remaining few retail locations in the city is going down the tubes.
If I had to guess, can’t get tenants due to crime.
Well I am not fond of online food delivery either save for pizza…
But the closure of food courts and restaurants point to mall closures at large.
According to an SEC filing, DBJPM is a collaboration of Deutsche Bank + J P Morgan.
I used to like shopping malls a lot; but in recent years I don’t want to go to any of the ones near me - at least the ones that are left. The best ones in the best neighborhoods closed years ago, and too much bad stuff happens in the ones that are left these days.
I liked eating at Panda Express.
Food courts are magnets for hoodlums and yutes.
The new junkie emporium and somali daycare center.
My mom used to take us shopping at the Emporium there back in the day when my sister and I were little. I’d say “sad to see what’s happened to SF” but it’s gotten pretty boring at this point due to repetitiveness.
The new owners probably want to tear down the Mall and build something else in that spot .
I go there often in bad weather to walk. But today a good percentage of the storefronts are empty...and the number increases constantly. I,for one,can't see how they can continue at this rate. The mall even has a number of condos selling for a million (plus) in an attached complex.
In the not too distant future shopping malls will be a thing of the past.
” a group of lenders associated under the name DBJPM 2016-SFC Emporium, bought the mall’s debt”
Remind me to NOT invest in that group.
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