SF News Former Westfield Mall Heads to Auction The fate of the former Westfield mall, now called the Emporium Centre San Francisco, will be decided at an auction next month, as the receivership process appears to be soon wrapped up.
SF News Saturday Links: Downtown Mall Movie Theater May Have a Taker A security guard at a Fremont CVS was fatally shot on the job; Capitol Police will pay the SFPD to guard the Pelosis' house; the former Westfield mall movie theater may not be vacant for much longer.
SF News SF's Downtown Mall Markets Itself to Small Businesses, Signs Seven New Leases There's some good news on the retail front for San Francisco, with the Union Square-adjacent Emporium Centre San Francisco having signed seven new leases in recent weeks to fill some of the abundant vacancy in the troubled mall.
SF News American Eagle Outfitters Is the Latest Store to Depart Ailing Downtown SF Mall The Emporium Centre San Francisco, formerly known as the Westfield San Francisco Centre, continues on the vacancy train with the announcement of the July closure of American Eagle Outfitters, one of the larger remaining stores in the mall.
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 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 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.
Business & Tech Veritas Investments May Have Found a Buyer for Its Defaulted Loan Portfolio, and It’s an Ex-Westfield Mall Owner A new buyer has emerged for the nearly $1 billion in defaulted properties for the city’s biggest residential landlord Veritas Investments, and its Brookfield Properties, a partner that just walked away from the Westfield Centre shopping mall.
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 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 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 Man Found Dead At SF's Westfield Mall Was Partially Undressed, Had Rope Around Head Nearly a year after a San Francisco chef was found dead at the Westfield San Francisco Centre mall, his cause of death remains a mystery. But though police say they are not investigating
Arts & Entertainment Cannabis Wedding Expo Rings Stoners' Bells With the passage of legal recreational marijuana use in California, the full marijuanization of each aspect of our lives and culture walks further down the aisle each day. Couples who are engaged in
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 Suspect On The Loose After Man Is Shot While Paying For Parking At Union Square Area Garage Witness says he heard 3 or 4 gunshots & people started running into Bloomingdale's. Mission & 4th. @abc7newsBayArea pic.twitter.com/L6KWSG63xl— Katie Marzullo (@KatieABC7) November 26, 2015 Two days after a bloody
SF News Teen Shot In Front Of Westfield Mall Expected To Survive The 19-year-old victim of Sunday night's shooting in front of the Westfield Mall on Market Street is expected to survive police report today. The suspect, on the other hand, has not be found.
SF News Man Shot Several Times Outside Westfield Mall; Suspect At Large [Updated] The Westfield Mall at Market & Powell is a crime scene as police investigate a shooting. pic.twitter.com/zq4FspFOuV— Sergio Quintana (@svqjournalist) February 17, 2014 Police are now looking for a suspect
Arts & Entertainment Kiehl's And Joss Stone Hey, for those of you who like the grapefruit-scented lotion and the copious free samples they hand out, the beloved bath and body store Kiehl's just opened a new store in the Westfield
Arts & Entertainment Bodypainting At The Westfield Mall Cool, in a Demi Moore/silver guy in Fisherman's Wharf kind of way! Thanks for sending these on to us, Drew! More pictures after the jump (and even more at Drew's website.)
