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.
As I stated.
And now knowing that it’s a Nordstrom lot, they might pay a bit more the attendant and have security to keep an eye on customer cars.
But let’s not forget that they don’t want Section 8 apartments next door. That happens, Nordstrom is gone.