Yikes! Back in the 1980's, there was a beautiful fountain in the civic park in front of City Hall, a couple blocks away from where Whole Foods is today. Until vagrants started bathing in it. The fountain was removed and filled in, and public bathrooms were closed in the park. In the 1990's the vagrants bathed in U.N. Plaza fountains across from where Whole Foods is today. Naked in full view of buses passing by, and the vagrants would take a dump at the curb on Market Street and wipe with newspapers. Even Jack-In-the-Box closed down nearby and left. So idiots in Whole Foods management decided "This is the place for us to build!". There is a tent city across the street of homeless, and lots of drug dealing. Built it in a great spot (not).
Yes I’ve worked in the federal building at UN Plaza for 25 yrs. Was very surprised when that Whole Foods opened. Not surprised at all that it didn’t last even a year.