[Steve_Seattle]

"People came from across the city to shop there . . . "

Apparently they also came from across the city to shopLIFT there, which probably explains the company's decision.

[lee martell]

This is a very long winding article, jam packed with human interest stories, but not once is a high level of shop lifting mentioned. Stealing, plus local area BLM protests probably made many of these stores unsafe places to work or shop.

The elephant in the vacant parking lots must be named and discussed. And I dont mean trying to rationalize stealing due to presumed racism.