Business & Tech SF’s Former Westfield Mall Being Rebranded as ‘The Emporium Centre San Francisco’ In an apparent attempt to halt the nonstop parade of terrible headlines about the former Westfield San Francisco Centre mall, the mall’s new management is renaming it “the Emporium Centre San Francisco” while promising more security and new attractions.
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 More Westfield Mall Woes, as SF’s Only LEGO Store There Has Closed Permanently Things apparently weren't connecting anymore in San Francisco’s only LEGO store, located in the beleaguered mall formerly known as the Westfield San Francisco Centre, as that LEGO store quietly closed permanently last week.
SF News 30-Year-Old SF Woman Accused of Committing 20 Separate Retail Thefts at Westfield Mall The San Francisco District Attorney's Office is calling attention to a case in which one woman suspected of participating in a rampant spree of retail thefts has been arrested and charged.
SF News Expert In Distressed Assets Assigned to Take Over Management of Westfield Mall An expert in receivership of large properties who's based in Southern California has been given the go-ahead by a judge to take over the operations of the San Francisco Centre mall, formerly known as the Westfield San Francisco Centre.
SF News American Eagle Sues Westfield Mall, Saying Ownership Let the Place ‘Deteriorate Into Disarray’ A new wrinkle in the Westfield Centre drama, as large tenant American Eagle Outfitters just filed a lawsuit saying Westfield management abandoned any attempt at security and allowed the place to go to hell in a handbasket.
SF News Mayor Breed Still Pushing This Curious Idea of Turning Westfield Mall Into a Soccer Stadium An off-the-cuff remark by Mayor Breed in June apparently has fresh legs, as she said Tuesday that the city has now retained an architecture firm for a preliminary design work on a possible soccer stadium to replace the beleaguered Westfield San Francisco Centre.
SF News Mayor Breed Floats the Idea of Turning Westfield Mall Into… A Soccer Stadium? Here’s an out-of-left-field solution to the highly uncertain future of Union Square’s Westfield San Francisco Centre shopping mall — Mayor Breed pitched the idea Thursday that it could become “a whole new soccer stadium.”
SF News Retail Experts Predict Downtown and Westfield Mall Recovery Maybe In 2024 It's not all doom-loop and gloom if you talk to retail real estate people in San Francisco right now. And while it's perhaps just their job to be cheerleaders even in sorry-looking times, at least a few say that empty storefronts are just opportunities.
SF News Westfield Mall’s Century Theater Closing Permanently On Thursday Thursday is the last day of screenings at the Century 9 theater in the Westfield San Francisco Centre, as another tenant is bailing on the shopping mall that owner Westfield Corporation is also walking away from.
SF News EU-Based Westfield Says It Is Walking Away From San Francisco Mall Property, as It Has Several of Its US Malls The parent company of the formerly Australian shopping center brand Westfield announced a year ago that it wanted to divest itself of its US mall properties. And following the Nordstrom closure announcement, they are walking away from their Market Street mall in SF and surrendering it to the lender.
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 Brutal Beatdown At Westfield Mall Goes Viral In Reddit Video, But No Charges Filed A very ferocious two-on-one pummeling in front of the Foot Locker at the Westfield Centre has gone viral in a Reddit video, and while Westfield management confirms the incident happened, the victim is declining to file any charges.
SF News Westfield Mall Gets a Cannabis Store — Without Any Cannabis The Westfield San Francisco Centre has just seen a marijuana dispensary of a sort open in the mall, but there is no marijuana there — just “non-medicated cannabis replicas and empty packaging.”
SF News SFPD Officers Shoot Man Wielding Large Knife Outside Westfield Mall A man who was reportedly acting erratically and refusing to comply with police commands while waving around a large knife on Tuesday evening was shot and wounded by police.
Arts & Entertainment Nordstrom to Lose Two Floors at Westfield Centre, Making Way For Office Space The SF Planning Commission on Thursday approved a plan to convert the top two floors of Nordstrom at the Westfield mall into 50,000 square feet of new office space.
SF News Security Guards Thwart Armed Creepy Clown Shenanigans At Market Street's Westfield Centre Market Street's troubled Westfield Centre narrowly missed another blow to its reputation Sunday, when mall security guards reportedly thwarted a possible armed robbery by a gang of, I kid you not, men carrying
SF News Girlfriend Of Chef Found Dead At Westfield Center Alleges Mall Management Cover-Up Girlfriend, family of man found dead in Westfield mall still in the dark https://t.co/9aajSC40Zn via @jonahowenlamb pic.twitter.com/MzUNEcMxDU— SF Examiner (@sfexaminer) October 7, 2016 Nearly two months after
SF News Man Loses Paycheck In Mugging Outside Westfield Centre An early-evening mugging on a busy stretch of Market Street left a a man injured Thursday, beaten and robbed just steps from San Francisco's Westfield Centre mall. Police say that the 49-year-old man
SF News Violent Group Of Deplorable Teens Pulls Laptop Theft Scam At Westfield Centre Though located on San Francisco's "most criminal block," the Westfield Centre shopping mall has long presented itself as a tony oasis in the fraught melee that can be Market Street between Fourth and
SF News Chef's Body Found In Westfield Mall Reclassified As Suspicious Death, Not Homicide Though originally investigated as a homicide, the death of 28-year-old San Francisco chef Frank Galicia has been reclassified as merely "suspicious." SFPD announced the reclassification yesterday, though KRON 4 reports that the cause
SF News Bathroom Bandits Rob, Swear At Woman In Westfield Centre Ladies, if you're using the can at the tony Westfield Centre in downtown San Francisco, keep your belongings close — a robbery pair is apparently seeking bathroom-using victims and swiping items from their bags.
Arts & Entertainment Britney Spears Spotted Loitering Around Westfield Centre While swirling around some Lady Gaga rumors, lost in a Jean Paul Gautier fervor the city somehow failed to notice the recent arrival of another celebrity type in San Francisco. According to rumor,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink La Boulange to Crown a New Location Under the Dome at the Westfield Center [Chain Watching] Seemingly well-loved Bay Area French coffee-and-pastry chain La Boulange is getting another outpost downtown in the near future. As Inside Scoop reports, the new spot will be a mere two blocks down the