SF News Union Square Macy’s Escapes the Ax In Latest Macy’s Closure List, But Its Days Are Likely Still Numbered Department store chain Macy’s just announced they’re closing more than 60 stores nationwide, and while the SF Union Square store is not on the imminent closure list, it is still clearly on the chopping block.
SF News Buyer Interest Emerges for Macy's Union Square Property; City Holds Out Hope Macy's Will Stay In Some Form The Macy's corporation hasn't shared much in the way of plans since its bombshell announcement earlier this year that it would close its flasghip San Francisco store. But there are a couple of possibilities emerging for the property.
Arts & Entertainment Fur Real: Puppies and Kittens Return to Macy’s Windows in Union Square on Friday Santa’s little yelpers will be back in the windows for the SF SPCA Holiday Windows at Macy's promotion starting this Friday at noon, and the impending closure of Macy’s means this may be the last year for what is purr-haps SF’s favorite holiday tradition.
SF Politics Can Daniel Lurie Save Macy's? With the big tree-lighting ceremony in Union Square this week, the pall hanging over the celebration is the impending planned closure of Macy's, with this potentially being the last Great Tree lighting in the square, at least by Macy's.
SF News Macy’s Will Close Its San Leandro Store at Bayfair Mall as It Lays Off 2,350 Employees Nationwide A big bloodletting is coming to the franchise department store Macy’s, with a reported 2,350 employees being laid off nationwide, and the San Leandro’s Macy’s at the Bayfair Center will be one of five store casualties.
Arts & Entertainment Adorable, Adoptable Puppies and Kittens Return to Macy’s Windows for Holidays, Starting Friday A whole crew of Santa’s little yelpers arrives in the windows of the Union Square Macy’s this Friday, as the SF SPCA and Macy’s Union Square’s 37th annual Holiday Windows brings back what is purr-haps our favorite holiday tradition.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Way-Too-Early Union Square Macy’s Tree Lighting is Tonight Four Sonoma County schools were put on lockdown over a shooting threat Thursday, Noise Pop announced the first batch of bands playing its 2024 schedule, and the Macy’s Great Tree at Union Square will be lit Thursday night, albeit without an official ceremony.
Arts & Entertainment Already?!? Union Square Macy’s Tree Was Quietly Lit Wednesday Night for the Holidays A day-after-Thanksgiving tradition returned about two-and-a-half weeks early this year, as the Macy’s Great Tree was unexpectedly lit up Wednesday night, and organizers insist there is “no official tree lighting ceremony this year.”
SF News Macy's/I. Magnin Building On Union Square May Get Condos On Top Floors A new plan has been submitted for a mixed-use conversion of the former I. Magnin building on Union Square — most recently the white-stone-clad extension of Macy's at the corner of Stockton and Geary — that would include 21 condo units on the top three floors.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink More Details On Plan To Turn Stonestown Macy's Into Multiplex Theater With Food Court We heard outlines of a plan a couple weeks ago by new property owner General Growth Properties (GGP) to redevelop the Macy's store at the Stonestown mall. Now the Chronicle gets a few
SF News Stonestown Macy's To Likely Become Movie Theater, Restaurants, And Grocery Store Under new ownership as of earlier this year, the 280,000-square-foot Macy's store at Stonestown Galleria is set to get redeveloped into a multi-plex cinema, a grocery store, and multiple shops and restaurants.
SF News National Department Store Bloodbath Leads To Closure Of Another San Francisco Macy's After a holiday season that left major retail chains reeling with disappointment, department store giants Macy's, Sears, and Kmart have announced a massive wave of real estate sales, closures and shutdowns, including one
SF News Macy's To Shutter Its Union Square Men's Store Among the 100 Macy's stores that are set to close, as the retail giant announced today, will be the hulking, nearly windowless men's store across the street from their Union Square flagship, at
SF News SFFD Fights Smoky Blaze At Union Square Macy's 0041 Hrs #Yoursffd extinguished a small equipment fire on the roof of Macy's. No injury or displacement 0044 hrs pic.twitter.com/9cDTNkaCty— San Francisco Fire (@sffdpio) June 29, 2016 A fire on
SF News The Best Public Restrooms In SF When you're in the middle of downtown shopping, or getting off BART/Muni in desperate need of a place to pee (since station bathrooms remain closed, pending some coming upgrades), this primer will
Arts & Entertainment Grumpy Cat Arrives At Macy's Today The official, frowning host of today's unveiling ceremony of Macy's annual holiday windows is internet celebrity pet, Grumpy Cat. Grumpy, who also stars in a horrific looking Lifetime Christmas movie that arrives next
SF News Macy's And Bloomingdale's To Offer Same-Day Delivery In S.F. In move that helps them go head-to-head with big-shot Amazon (and, potentially, Uber) in the same-day delivery space, Macy's and Bloomingdale's have just announced partnerships with Palo Alto-based Deliv. The startup delivery service
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Martha Stewart to Sign Books, Use Utensils at Macy's Union Square Crafty ex-con and Mission Chinese Food fan, Martha Stewart is coming to San Francisco this week to unleash her latest book of photographs, recipes and entertaining tips. Martha will be at the Union
SF News Fired Macy's Santa Claus Hired By Lefty O'Douls By now we all know the tale of John Toomey, the Union Square Macy's Santa Claus who was fired after telling a barely risque joke to a couple of horrible old people. Well,
SF News S.F. Union Square Macy's Fires Santa Claus Sad news, kids. Christmas is canceled. The Union Square Macy's store has, sadly, fired John Toomey, known for 20 years at the store's "Santa John." Why? Well, according to the Chronicle, it all
SF News Possible Bomb Threat In Union Square (Updated) We're getting word of a possible bomb threat in Union Square this afternoon. KGO's Twitter reports: "We're getting conflicting information about a possible evacuation of Macy's dept store at Union Square." (My God,
SF News Retail Spending Recovery Driven By Cheap Shit Good news, all! Retail stores saw their second consecutive month of sales increases in October, which amounted to retail's best overall performance in over a year in this here Great Recession. But for
SF News Photos: Beckham Armani Underwear Ad Revealed David Beckham's gargantuan Armani underwear poster splattered against the side of the Macy's building to much acclaim yesterday. "Just in time for gay-wedding gift shopping," declares Gawker, here are some shots of the
Arts & Entertainment Dita Von Teese Pics! We're a little late to the party on this one (sorry, sorry, sorry, we've been totally swamped at our day job lately, which is why we've been kind of MIA -- curse you,
SF News Day Around The Bay -- Norman Nsu to return to Redwood City. [ABC7] -- Beth Spotswood writes in real-time about this year's Macy's Passport, with SFist aluma Eve Batey as the Virgil to her Dante. [Chron] --
