Posted on 01/29/2024 9:29:04 AM PST by george76
Your point is interesting. I don’t personally like the idea of chopping up the state though.
It's sad that it got to this point. I was born and raised in SF, back when it was a Republican city and had many military facilities. Then the Democrats flooded in the 1960's and flipped it Democrat. Back then, not crowded, but clean. No crazy people and few drug addicts. Lots of great shopping areas. Market Street was wonderful. The Emporium on Market Street was really great, what with their window displays that were often animated, especially at Christmas. At the Cable Car turnaround at Market and Powell streets, my dad would help the conductors rotate the cable car around for the return trip up Powell. Yes, no touristy enclosures and lines, and citizens could help turn it around. All that started going downhill in the 1970's.
And here we are today, after a string of mayors and supervisors encouraged drug abuse, crime, and homelessness on the streets. Current mayor is the worst, not having a clue how to fix it.
This thread is about "ghost malls" and SF being undone by their Soros-inspired unlawfullness.
Corporate guidance has a retail outlet and commercial retail withdrawal underway from SF. Which doesn't even rank top 5 in homicides by guns, btw (and yet St. Louis does lol).
Therefore, under the criteria of this thread, you attempted determine who is growing by where the money is pouring into, cross-referenced across your 'list'. And money is pouring into : Indy, the Nash, and St. Louis. You might not like it but they don't belong on your ad hoc 'list'; Nashville is almost 2 years running as the leading metro retail real estate investment by volume.
"Nashville has seen limited growth in retail development over the past few years, with a sluggish pace of groundbreaking in recent quarters. Consequently, only around 1.4 million square feet of retail space is currently being constructed throughout the metro, accounting for approximately 1.1% of the existing stock. Although this figure has slightly increased with the recent commencement of the 290,000 square feet Tanger Outlets project in Antioch, it still aligns with quarterly averages seen before the pandemic and falls short of the over two million square feet that were under construction in 2016."
MatthewsTM Real Estate Investment Services - July 26, 2023
Sounds like one outlet project in the Antioch district is responsible for the "slight increase".
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