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How San Francisco's Westfield turned into a ghost mall: The dying center where 75 PERCENT of units are empty and more stores are closing - as shoppers describe 'dodgy' area overrun with homeless who left them 'scared'
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| 28 January 2024
| LEWIS PENNOCK
Posted on 01/29/2024 9:29:04 AM PST by george76
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posted on
01/29/2024 9:29:04 AM PST
by
george76
To: george76
At least they’re actually attributing it to crime. Around here, they can’t be honest - they say they close because they’re not near highways.
As if the highways moved away or something.
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posted on
01/29/2024 9:33:29 AM PST
by
scott7278
(Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.)
To: george76
Soon to be command and control bases our enemies will be quartered and managed from at the local levels. Easy to fence and secure.
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posted on
01/29/2024 9:34:04 AM PST
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
To: blackdog
I always enjoyed a whiff of urine before going to Nordstrom’s for champagne and to listen to the piano player.
To: george76
The Democrats have ruled California for several decades now.
You’d think the public would catch on, but that just doesn’t materialize.
I was born in this state. Its potential is amazing.
It has been severely damaged by the enemies of our nation.
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posted on
01/29/2024 9:36:30 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
To: Wally_Kalbacken
Very Hemmingway-esque literary statement there. Well done!
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posted on
01/29/2024 9:37:44 AM PST
by
blackdog
((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
To: Wally_Kalbacken
You lost me at “I always enjoyed a whiff of urine ...” ;-)
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posted on
01/29/2024 9:40:41 AM PST
by
glorgau
To: george76
Doesn’t sound like anything that bringing in a few thousand illegal aliens won’t fix.
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posted on
01/29/2024 9:47:20 AM PST
by
farmguy
( )
To: DoughtyOne
I was born in this state. Its potential is amazing.
I have visited California a few times, and I will say here what I have said for years: It is a beautiful state governed by outright lunatics. I really do feel sorry for the remaining normal folk who still live in the state - I pray for y'all.
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posted on
01/29/2024 9:49:04 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: george76
While it may be a high crime area, I’m guessing the stores closed because the Internets and Amazon is killing the malls.
Ours is practically empty now, and will probably be torn down soon to be replaced by condos. Part of it already has been.............
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posted on
01/29/2024 9:49:34 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: george76
U.S. cities were doomed more than a century ago. Some saw a surge during WW2 but even those peaked in 1950.
There's simply nothing to stop San Francisco from continuing its decline like other American cities. The dotcom money is gone. The only industries left are the Grievance Industry and the Rape-The-Taxpayer Industry.
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Baltimore
Bridgeport
Chicago
Cincinnati
Dayton
Detroit
Erie
Gary
Houston
Indianapolis
Jackson
Jacksonville
Memphis
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Modesto
Montgomery
Nashville
New Orleans
Newark
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Portland
Seattle
St. Louis
Syracuse
Trenton
Washington DC
etc.
To: george76
Great plan SF, kill the mall and reopen as homeless shelter!
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posted on
01/29/2024 9:55:22 AM PST
by
Lockbox
(politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
01/29/2024 9:57:54 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
To: george76
More of Newsom’s planned demolition of California...
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posted on
01/29/2024 10:05:40 AM PST
by
ransomnote
(IN GOD WE TRUST)
To: Army Air Corps
I was stationed in Southern California back in the early 1980s - mostly Camp Pendleton and 29 Palms bases. I was amazed at how gigantic that area was and how geologically diverse, where one could go surfing in the ocean, skiing in the mountains, and camping out in the desert, all in one day.
Did I say it was a huge state? One time I decided to drive to San Francisco from San Diego with some buddies and it was similar in distance to driving from NYC to Florida and we were still only about halfway up the state.
It's a crime how leftist politicians have ruined it.
I had a great experience out there but already could see the seeds of decline.
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posted on
01/29/2024 10:06:22 AM PST
by
SamAdams76
(6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
To: george76
My Bioscience - Venture Capitalist - liberal relative saw it coming 6 years ago and quietly got out. Moved to Boulder, CO, heh.
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posted on
01/29/2024 10:07:54 AM PST
by
SaxxonWoods
(Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
To: george76
A cutting statement blamed the 'deteriorating situation in downtown San Francisco' and 'unsafe conditions for customers, retailers, and employees'. The term is "death spiral", and once you've made a couple of turns it doesn't stop until you hit the bottom.
And it's not a so-called 'dead mall' in some forgotten corner of America.
They're working on that...
To: T.B. Yoits
It’s hard to point to any large American city worth visiting. They all suck.
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posted on
01/29/2024 10:10:18 AM PST
by
BlueStateRightist
(Government is best which governs least.)
To: SamAdams76
“we were still only about halfway up the state”
And the real Northern California - which actually is North of San Francisco - is basically empty.
So why is everyone crowded into a couple of hyper dense population centers? Bizarre.
But tell nobody. Can still buy cheap houses in Redding. They just look like crap.
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posted on
01/29/2024 10:12:34 AM PST
by
Regulator
(It's fraud, Jim)
To: T.B. Yoits
If only ten of those cities were nuked, you would have peace on earth for a thousand years. /spit
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posted on
01/29/2024 10:14:49 AM PST
by
Flavious_Maximus
(Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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