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1 posted on 01/29/2024 9:29:04 AM PST by george76
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At least they’re actually attributing it to crime. Around here, they can’t be honest - they say they close because they’re not near highways.

As if the highways moved away or something.


2 posted on 01/29/2024 9:33:29 AM PST by scott7278 (Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.)
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Soon to be command and control bases our enemies will be quartered and managed from at the local levels. Easy to fence and secure.


3 posted on 01/29/2024 9:34:04 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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The Democrats have ruled California for several decades now.

You’d think the public would catch on, but that just doesn’t materialize.

I was born in this state. Its potential is amazing.

It has been severely damaged by the enemies of our nation.


5 posted on 01/29/2024 9:36:30 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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Doesn’t sound like anything that bringing in a few thousand illegal aliens won’t fix.


8 posted on 01/29/2024 9:47:20 AM PST by farmguy ( )
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While it may be a high crime area, I’m guessing the stores closed because the Internets and Amazon is killing the malls.

Ours is practically empty now, and will probably be torn down soon to be replaced by condos. Part of it already has been.............


10 posted on 01/29/2024 9:49:34 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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U.S. cities were doomed more than a century ago. Some saw a surge during WW2 but even those peaked in 1950.

There's simply nothing to stop San Francisco from continuing its decline like other American cities. The dotcom money is gone. The only industries left are the Grievance Industry and the Rape-The-Taxpayer Industry.

Albuquerque
Atlanta
Baltimore
Bridgeport
Chicago
Cincinnati
Dayton
Detroit
Erie
Gary
Houston
Indianapolis
Jackson
Jacksonville
Memphis
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Modesto
Montgomery
Nashville
New Orleans
Newark
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Portland
Seattle
St. Louis
Syracuse
Trenton
Washington DC
etc.

11 posted on 01/29/2024 9:52:50 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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Great plan SF, kill the mall and reopen as homeless shelter!


12 posted on 01/29/2024 9:55:22 AM PST by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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More of Newsom’s planned demolition of California...


14 posted on 01/29/2024 10:05:40 AM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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My Bioscience - Venture Capitalist - liberal relative saw it coming 6 years ago and quietly got out. Moved to Boulder, CO, heh.


16 posted on 01/29/2024 10:07:54 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Are you ready for Black Lives MAGA? It's coming.)
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A cutting statement blamed the 'deteriorating situation in downtown San Francisco' and 'unsafe conditions for customers, retailers, and employees'.

The term is "death spiral", and once you've made a couple of turns it doesn't stop until you hit the bottom.

And it's not a so-called 'dead mall' in some forgotten corner of America.

They're working on that...

17 posted on 01/29/2024 10:09:15 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To be fair, this doom and gloom description applies to most malls in America.

But because this is in San Francisco, there is an extra helping of schadenfreude to be applied.

Suck it losers.


22 posted on 01/29/2024 10:17:30 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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Often after the sun sets, the abandon stores/mall become a no man/woman area until mid morning the next day.

Perfect places to store illegals.


23 posted on 01/29/2024 10:30:02 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Trust no one, who is not a proven and valued/trusty one or a family member or a long time friend! )
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Isn’t it amazing how quickly and easily, and thoroughly, Marxist radicals can destroy a civilization?


24 posted on 01/29/2024 10:34:46 AM PST by _longranger81
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Let the bums and illegals fight over it


25 posted on 01/29/2024 10:39:21 AM PST by bigbob
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>>The mall’s cavernous, marble-floored atrium is eerily quiet.

I’ve never understood why one would want to buy clothing in a store with marble floors.

The overhead of marble floors must be built into the price of the clothing.

Clothing should be bought online or in economically built and operated real estate.


26 posted on 01/29/2024 10:39:57 AM PST by FarCenter
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Give out free stuff and advertise and the freeloaders will come.


28 posted on 01/29/2024 10:45:16 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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Westfield SF was an expansion and renovation of the flagship of a store called The Emporium, founded in 1896. They preserved the building’s facade and 102-foot dome. Probably the most glorious retail space I’ve ever seen. The forthcoming collapse of this enterprise is a perfect metaphor for the suicide of the SF


40 posted on 01/29/2024 12:17:48 PM PST by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/22/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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“Every town has the same two malls: the one white people go to and the one white people used to go to.”
— Chris Rock


41 posted on 01/29/2024 12:17:53 PM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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Turn the mall into an indoor shooting range. You might be surprised at how busy it gets.

The City would never go for that, though.


43 posted on 01/29/2024 12:36:01 PM PST by Disambiguator
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I saw an interesting study that plotted the lifecycle of shopping different malls and how bus stops effected the malls - negatively. Bus stops were supposed to bring customers and instead brought crime and violence.


46 posted on 01/29/2024 12:53:22 PM PST by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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