The Bay Area is sinking into the abyss

American Thinker ^ | 05/10/2023 | Andrea Widburg

[SeekAndFind]

Last month, Whole Foods shut down a year-old flagship store it had opened in downtown San Francisco. Two weeks later, word broke that Nordstrom, the Seattle-based, high-end retailer that had a major presence in downtown San Francisco was shutting down both its Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack stores. Today, news broke that T-Mobile is pulling out, too. It’s a retail exodus that is obviously bad for San Francisco. Significantly, it turns out that other Bay Area downtowns are imploding, as well.

The Whole Foods store shut down because the crime plaguing it was unsustainable, in terms of profits and worker safety. The same held true for the Nordstrom pullout:

“We’ve spent more than 35 years serving customers in downtown San Francisco, building relationships with them and investing in the local community,” Nordstrom told impacted employees.

“But as many of you know, the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW), owner of the Westfield Mall where one of the Nordstrom stores is closing, slammed the current conditions in the city and said retailers are leaving in droves because of unsafe conditions that have dragged on, despite the company pleading with city officials to take action.

The latest major retailer to join the downtown San Francisco exodus is T-Mobile, which had a 17,000-square-foot store in Union Square, the heart of downtown San Francisco’s hotel and real estate district. T-Mobile hasn’t said why it decided to close the store, other than a “reshaped…retail strategy,” but it’s easy to guess that crime played a part.

After all, to stay afloat in San Francisco, a Target store had to put everything behind glass:

[BigFreakinToad]

I fully support the Darwinism that is taking place. Perhaps someday nature will retake the city and tribesmen will roam the crumbling infrastructure.

[V_TWIN]

By “ sinking into the abyss” I assume the writer means human feces.

[Smber]

Atlas is indeed shrugging.

[FlingWingFlyer]

All those San Franciscan Africans with five million taxpayer bucks in their pockets and nowhere to spend it. LOL.

[FlingWingFlyer]

All those San Franciscan Africans with five million taxpayer bucks in their pockets and nowhere to spend it. LOL.

[DownInFlames]

I would hope it’s sinks into the ocean.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: All those San Franciscan Africans with five million taxpayer bucks in their pockets and nowhere to spend it.

Don’t laugh. If that were to happen (God forbid), they would skedaddle out of there and go to some other city to infect. Millions of Californians have been doing that for years.

[Brian Griffin]

The Democrats want them to stick around so they vote ‘rat.

With a million apiece they’d get the hell out of the hellhole.

[Boogieman]

I miss the old city machine Democrats; they only cared about stealing, not about pushing some communist agenda. If the national party told them “pursue these policies that will kill your city’s economy”, they would have told them to go to hell, if only because they would have realized that would have severely impacted how much money they could skim off the top.

[Sicon]

All three of the Bay Area’s largest cities are staring down huge setbacks to their efforts to revitalize urban cores hollowed out by a once-in-a-generation pandemic FRAUD.

[caww]

WIth the invasion at the border soon to be cut loose you can bet many will had for San Francisco and other sancutary cities so the crime rates will surely increase rapidly over this year. Best if companies get out now.

[Brian Griffin]

REMARKS OF SENATOR JOHN F. KENNEDY AT THE GRIDIRON CLUB, WASHINGTON, D.C., MARCH 15, 1958

I have just received the following wire from my generous daddy: “Dear Jack – Don’t buy a single vote more than necessary – I’ll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.”

https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/washington-dc-19580315

[Boogieman]

Obviously, since blacks are the noblest of all Americans, they will take that reparations money and invest it in building businesses that will just donate goods to the poor so they won’t have to steal. Obviously.

[Brian Griffin]

Nancy Pelosi could phone the DEA and have the metro SF pot business whacked.

The California legislature could tax alcohol and tobacco enough to send SF bums packing.

[Clutch Martin]

As the population migrates out of the San Francisco Bay, it means that the next earthquake will kill far less people than it would have 20 years ago.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[T.B. Yoits]

They're blaming homeless people and criminals but these stores were quite willing to tolerate that for years. The stores are closing because the workers have left; either because the company bailed out of California or the employees are working remotely and not coming back.

Remote work has separated the last link in a chain that forced people who fled Democrat urban areas to still commute into them and thus subsidize them.

[cgbg]

“Remote work has separated the last link in a chain that forced people who fled Democrat urban areas to still commute into them and thus subsidize them.”

Correct—the folks here complaining about remote work are missing the big picture.

The big cities will die—rural people with blue collar skills have a bright future.

[cnsmom]

It is the Alcatraz karma