- Condo prices at the leaning Millennium Tower are down as much as 47%, particularly those bought before the tower’s structural problems became public. According to Zillow listings, a unit that sold for $1.1 million in 2014 is now listed at $649,000, and another that went for $1.5 million in 2015 is now going for just $800,000. [SFGate]
- The Union Square Saks Fifth Avenue is not just laying off a bunch of staff, they’re switching their operations to “appointment only.” Other Saks locations in Northern California have already made the change, and the 384 Post Street store will switch to appointment-only operations effective August 28. [Chronicle]
- An Air India flight that was headed for San Francisco was diverted to Krasnoyarsk International Airport in Russia due to a “potential issue in the cargo hold area." The 225 passengers and 19 crew members were all safe, and the airline is making alternate accommodations to get them to SF. [NBC Bay Area]
- Donald Trump accepted the Republican nomination with the longest acceptance speech in convention history Thursday night, and the reviews are so poor that Democratic strategists are calling it “the first good thing that’s happened to Democrats in three weeks.” [The Hill]
- Meanwhile, now-full-on Trumper Elon Musk has added Trump-themed emojis for Trump-related hashtags on the Twitter/X. [KRON4]
- And on the Democratic side, more members of Congress are calling on President Biden to step aside, donations are plunging, there are more whispers that Biden is seriously reconsidering his run. [NY Times]
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