There you go. There is a profit motive for it and Nordstrom isn’t giving that up without a very, very sizable check. And, being Nordstrom(surprised the store is still open) they pay a boatload in taxes and the last thing San Francisco needs is for them to pack up and slam some plywood on the doors and windows. No business owner, in their right mind, would set up shop in that city now.
San Francisco: Nordstrom we need that parking lot to put up a 500 unit, affordable housing(Section 8 but they won’t say that) complex.
Nordstrom: Nope. Unless you want to claim Imminent Domain and pay us fair market value. And once the check clears we’ll be shutting down the store, taking away those jobs and leaving you with a huge vacant store to try and fill, next to, a 500 unit Section 8 complex. Anything else you want to talk about.
San Francisco: Never mind.
I stopped reading anything, in detail, about SanFrancisco a while back. Everything about that place is corruption, chaos, greed and disgusting. Between Newsome, Pelosi, Zuckerberg, etc etc etc, I could care less if the city fell into the ocean. And Chesa Boudin has only made it worse.
Just let any of the few Conservatives or sane people that may live there a chance to get out.
In one of the Rush Hour movies, Chris Tucker’s character makes a comment about how to find out who is behind all the bad stuff.....Follow the rich white man.
Rush Hour 2 Carter’s Theory of Investigation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gp9QE3prHs
I have to side with Nordstrom on this one. From Civic Center down to the Ferry Building, perhaps a mile and a half, numerous parking lots have disappeared over the last 25 years. The Nordstrom parking lot is perhaps the last one between Market Street and Mission Street. Numerous skyscrapers built over parking lots along Stevenson Street just in the last 15 years. This is no place for low-income housing units, amid high-end stores and condos. There is little to no parking available, what with removal of parking along Market, Mission and intervening side streets. Then the parking lots disappeared.
That parking lot is extremely valuable to Nordstrom, there is no other place for them to park valet cars.