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Mayor London Breed; Ingka Group’s Jesper Brodin; 945 Market St. Ikea, a global home furnishing company with Swedish roots, is making a big bet on San Francisco’s beleaguered downtown. The retailer now based in the Netherlands will open an 85,000-square-foot store at 945 Market Street in South of Market, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. A grand opening is set for Aug. 23. Ikea’s arrival “is a tremendous boost,” declared Mayor London Breed, who has wooed the company since 2018. At least one official said it can create a halo effect.

Market Street is a major artery in San Francisco, California. It had all kinds of shops, malls, bars, restaurants, and stores that are now closed, It begins at The Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building and runs southwest through downtown, passing the Civic Center and the Castro District, to the intersection with Portola Drive in the Twin Peaks

San Francisco Mayor London Breed is pushing back against reports of a retail “collapse” in the city’s downtown, saying that the departure of many high-end stores is the result of “changes to retail” in the economy in general. As Breitbart News has reported, there is an ongoing retail exodus from San Francisco, particularly in the area around Union Square and Market Street, at the terminus of the city’s famed cable car, where tourists arrive. The reasons are many, but chief among them is the rise of crime in the downtown area, which spiked with the emergence of “mass looting” events,...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINOxRxze9k&feature=player_embedded#! A Trip Down Market Street Before the Fire 1905 Pictures San Francisco's main thoroughfare as seen from the front window of a moving Market Street cable car, before the downtown area was destroyed in the 1906 earthquake and fire. This unusual record has been called the first "structural film" because it follows exactly the externally imposed structure of the car ride.

Advertisement A group of boy scouts attended the Thursday Flower Mound Town Council meeting. The scouts attended the meeting for a merit badge, but what they got was an education in politics. During the heated meeting, Mayor Jody Smith cautioned the audience to maintain decorum. Much of the audience in attendance was there to protest the Shops at Market Street Project. The Council voted 4-1 to deny an amendment to the Master Plan redefining the Master Plan...