SF News 117-Year-Old Central Drug Store, Oldest Store in the Excelsior, Closing Permanently in July It’s the end of a very long era, after Central Drug Store has spent 117 years at its current Mission Street and Santa Rosa Avenue location, it will close permanently on July 15 as owner Jerry Tonelli is heading toward a well-deserved retirement.
Arts & Entertainment Another Planet Evicting Longtime Castro Coffeeshop and Nail Salon, Likely for Box Office Space for Castro Theatre It's been confirmed that two longtime businesses on the 400 block of Castro Street, Castro Coffee Co. and Castro Nail Salon, are being evicted in June by new building managers Another Planet Entertainment (APE).
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Polk Gulch Wine and Spirits Emporium The Jug Shop Has Been Evicted Despite being an SF legacy business, 60-year-old SF wine and spirits store The Jug Shop appears to have served its last drop, as its owner confirms the shop has been evicted from their Polk Gulch location.
SF News Bloomingdale's to Close at SF Centre, Ushering In Further Bleak Days for Beleaguered Mall This is not news that anyone wanted to hear today about San Francisco and its downtown recovery efforts, but following in the footsteps of major retailers Nordstrom and Macy's, Bloomingdale's is shuttering its massive SF store.
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.
Business & Tech Walgreens Closing 1,200 More Stores Nationwide, So This Is Not Just a San Francisco Thing After years of finger-pointing at San Francisco over a small handful of local Walgreens closures, the company now admits it just has way too many stores, and will be closing 1,200 more of them across the US.
Arts & Entertainment Beloved Fabric Outlet Store at 17th and Mission Is Closing Permanently on November 23 It will rip the hearts out of crafty types across the Bay Area that the 29-year-old fabric emporium Fabric Outlet has just announced its impending permanent closure, and the place is packed with customers jumping on the 40%-75% off clearance deals.
SF News 172-Year-Old Shreve & Co. Jewelry Store Permanently Closing Its Union Square Shop The venerable San Francisco-based jeweler Shreve & Co. just announced they’re closing up their Union Square shop permanently, though watch and necklace enthusiasts can clean up on 60% off liquidation sales starting this Friday.
SF News Another Day, Another Two Union Square Retailers Say They're Closing — Zara and The North Face In addition to news that The North Face is closing its only San Francisco store in Union Square this month, we now have word that Zara plans to close its longtime boutique on the square too.
SF News Debt-Ravaged Dispensary Chain MedMen Closing SF Store, They Claim ‘Temporarily’ The dispensary chain MedMen was once the largest pot shop franchise in the US, but they’re closing their Cow Hollow shop in SF today, amidst widespread closures of their stores across California.
SF News Retail Experts Weigh In On Macy's Union Square Closure, Saying Downtown Shopping May Be a Thing of the Past One of the main anchors of Union Square since 1947, Macy's, is going away in the next couple of years, and without it or anything of that scale to replace it, how long can Union Square remain a shopping destination?
SF News Macy's to Close Its San Francisco Union Square Flagship, In Huge Blow to City Retail Macy's announced plans today to close 150 of its "underproductive" stores nationwide, with 50 of them to close this year. And now we have confirmation that San Francisco's enormous — and often empty — store is among them.
SF News Longtime SF Herbal Apothecary Scarlet Sage Herb Co. to Close Permanently This Month The 29-year-old herbal shop Scarlet Sage Herb Co. had just moved from Valencia Street to Lower Pac Heights last year, but city red tape and slow foot traffic have the store announcing they’ll close permanently “at the end of February.”
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.
SF News J. Crew and Hollister Both Closing Stores at SF Centre Mall, Adding to String of Vacancies We have two more closures to add to the list of retailers leaving the former Westfield mall in downtown San Francisco.
SF News Can City Hall Get Safeway to Stick Around Longer In the Fillmore? They're Going to Try As expected, SF Supervisor Dean Preston made a move at Tuesday's Board of Supervisors meeting to begin a process of cajoling Safeway not to shutter its 40-year-old grocery store in the Fillmore District, at least not yet.
SF News San Francisco's Only Adidas Store Closing at Former Westfield Mall The block of Market Street between Fourth and Fifth will have another vacancy soon, with Adidas announcing that it is closing its only San Francisco store next week — and they're having a liquidation sale.
SF News Fillmore Safeway to Close to Make Way for Housing, Depriving Neighborhood of Its Only Grocery Store A long troubled but still very active and popular Safeway location in the Fillmore neighborhood is slated to close in early March, with the site being sold to a residential developer.
SF News CVS Now Closing Lower Haight Store; Nearly Half of SF's CVS Stores Disappear Two years ago, San Francisco had 21 CVS stores, but as of January, we will be down to 12, with the Haight Street location now set to close.
Business & Tech FiDi 24-Hour Fitness and McDonald’s Both Announce Closures Amidst Record Office Vacancy Two Financial District chain retail businesses less than 500 feet from one another — both of which opened in 1994 — have announced their closures: a McDonald's and a 24-Hour Fitness, both shutting down due to the district’s offices being emptied out.
SF News Valencia Street Vintage Store Stuff Closing in January Over Apparent Landlord Dispute The gigantic vintage modern collective Stuff has been at Valencia Street near Duboce Avenue for 12 years, but has announced a January 31 closure over what the owners say is an untenable rent increase.
SF News Target Will Permanently Close Its Folsom and 13th Streets Location, Plus Two East Bay Locations Big-box retailer Target announced the closures of nine stores nationwide on Tuesday, and one of them is the Target at Folsom and 13th Streets, while two of the others are in the East Bay.
SF News Old Navy Flagship Store on Market Street Joins SF Retail Exodus The Old Navy flagship store on Market Street at Fourth, which has been in that location since the 1990s, will close on July 1, adding to the deepening retail exodus crisis on mid-Market and in Union Square.
SF Politics Mayor London Breed Wants to Put $6M Toward Fixing Up Powell Street, Filling Empty Storefronts The three blocks of Powell Street between Union Square and Market Street are being made a priority in SF Mayor London Breed's proposed new budget, with money being aimed at beautifying sidewalks and finding tenants for some big, vacant stores.
SF News Lots of Big Retail Stores Are Closing In Big Cities, and It Has Everything to Do With Economics While we're living in the days of the very loud, hard-to-counter narrative of San Francisco's "doom loop" and general perceived death, at least some experts are trying to make it known that San Francisco's downtown problems are hardly unique.
