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.
SF News T-Mobile Flagship at Market and Stockton Becomes 12th Union Square Store to Close/Announce Closure Since November The big, two-level T-Mobile store in what was formerly the Apple Store at the foot of Stockton Street in San Francisco has just abruptly closed, creating the next in a mounting list of vacancies in Union Square and the downtown core.
SF News Nordstrom to Shutter Downtown SF Department Store, and Nordstrom Rack, This Summer Cue more talk of "doom loops" and retail apocalypses. Nordstrom just revealed plans to close its 312,000-square-foot department store at the Westfield San Francisco Centre in August.
SF News Ross Dress For Less Wants to Take Over the Saks Off Fifth Location at Fifth and Market Street There’s already a Ross Dress for Less at Fourth and Market Streets, and now there may be another just one block away at Fifth and Market Streets, though it’s unclear if Ross is adding a new store or just moving.
SF News Anthropologie on Market Street Set to Close In May; Also, Downtown Office Depot Two more major retail closures are hitting downtown, one of them sort of predictable and the other not.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market Whole Foods Closing Due to Terrible Street Conditions Outside The Whole Foods at Trinity Place, at Eighth and Market in San Francisco, is closing its doors one year after opening there, with the company citing the horrible street conditions outside as the reason.
SF News Bed Bath & Beyond Is Closing Its SoMa Store You knew it was coming, with all the bankruptcy rumblings in the news, but yes, Bed Bath and What's More is closing its only San Francisco store.
SF News Walgreens CEO Says 'Maybe We Cried Too Much' About Shoplifting, Acknowledges Private Security Didn't Work The CEO of Walgreens now says that shoplifting seems to be down and maybe they made too big a deal about the issue — in SF and elsewhere — the last couple of years.
SF News SF’s Only Crate & Barrel, in Union Square, Will Close Permanently March 23 There will be another retail vacancy in Union Square in late March, as the Crate & Barrel at Stockton and O’Farrell Streets will furnish its last home furnishings and close in the next few weeks.
SF News Brazen Walgreens Thief Charged With Hitting Eight Stores In One Month A suspect who was arrested Saturday in connection with multiple Walgreens and CVS robberies — allegedly conducted in plain sight of staff and security guards — has been charged with 15 counts of robbery, grand theft, and burglary.
SF News SF Retail Was Hurting Before the Pandemic; Will Post-COVID SF Still Look Like a Ghost Town For Years? Union Square. Hayes Valley. The Castro. In these and other neighborhoods around the city, no amount of parklet dining and drinking can make up for the fact that, on some blocks, there are more empty storefronts than there are active ones.
SF News H&M Has Permanently Closed On Powell Street After 15 Years Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M has become the latest casualty in the slow collapse of SF's Union Square, as the company announces that it has permanently shuttered its West Coast flagship store on Powell Street.
SF Politics Will the Pandemic Retail Apocalypse Push SF Neighborhoods to Ease Formula Retail Rules? The pandemic and recession may be reason enough to ease at least some of the restrictions that have kept chain stores of all kinds from populating empty retail spaces, now that neighborhoods like Hayes Valley are looking pretty grim.
SF News Old-School Castro Barbershop 'Male Image' Is Closing After 41 Years Male Image, the barbershop near the corner of Market and Sanchez in the Castro, is not going to reopen whenever barbershops are allowed to in SF. Longtime owner Gary Mootz reportedly plans to retire.
Arts & Entertainment Beloved San Mateo Toy Store, Talbot's Toyland, Is Closing After 66 Years Kids who grew up in the Bay Area are lamenting the loss of a seven-decade-old toy retailer in San Mateo that was a mecca in a legion of local childhoods. Citing the "retail apocalypse," the iconic Talbot's Toyland with its huge T-Rex in the entry is calling it quits.
Arts & Entertainment Thrift Town Owners Blame Lagging Sales For Closure Days earlier than expected, Mission favorite Thrift Town has closed: https://t.co/iGMmedYNlT pic.twitter.com/sXJfc2k0wg— Capp Street Crap (@cappstreetcrap) March 30, 2017 Many on Wednesday were mourning the sudden loss
