With Shake Shack's exit, SF's most troubled mall is down to 1 restaurant

[PeteS in CA]

With Shake Shack's exit, SF's most troubled mall is down to 1 restaurant

https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/shake-shake-exits-sf-troubled-mall-21219390.php?utm_campaign=trueanthem%2B3984&utm_medium=social&utm_source=instagram

One of the last remaining strongholds of San Francisco Centre near Union Square is closing its doors for good.

Shake Shack, the burger joint located in the basement food court at 845 Market St., is closing permanently on Dec. 18, according to a Nov. 25 WARN filing to state labor officials.

The closure eliminates 26 jobs and leaves just one remaining restaurant — Panda Express — inside what was once San Francisco’s biggest and most lucrative mall. San Francisco Centre has been hemorrhaging tenants since the summer, which saw the departure of at least six food vendors.

According to the notice, the closure was prompted by the sale of the building and the new owner’s requirement that all tenants vacate the premises. All 26 employees impacted by the closure have been offered continued employment with no break in service, the same title, and the same rate of pay at nearby Shake Shack locations, the notice stated.

San Francisco Centre has been slowly dying as both "anchors" and other stores and restaurants left due to unimpeded shoplifting, the risk of violence, and Sacred Homeless harassing shoppers and assaulting shoppers' olfactory senses.

[Cyber Liberty]

It's pretty sad that a mall's "stronghold" is a restaurant in a food court.

[roamer_1]

It's pretty sad that a mall's "stronghold" is a restaurant in a food court.

I never did understand the mall food court appeal. I mean, if you are in there shopping, that's one thing... Might get hungry and want to stop for lunch...

But does anybody actually travel to a mall, find a place to park, walk 13.2 miles across the asphalt *just* to eat at a restaurant in the food court?

I guess I did that for a while, when Anna's was the only place in town to get a gyro, but as a normal rule, I do not even think of the mall if I am going out to eat.

[GtHawk]

Closer to home for me.
https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/orange-county-ghost-mall-westminster-future-21118236.php

Proposed future of the mall

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=36pr-lrj2_M

https://www.westminster-ca.gov/departments/community-development/planning-division/specific-plans/westminster-mall-specific-plan#docaccess-014da665bb707b2857446a4b90589eb553ea5cc3c244f6fccfadfc3b4b57c128

I certainly don’t want a huge vacant mall complex drawing homeless, vandals and other criminals for years so I hope they start the demolition process soon, the place is just up the street from my daughter and SIL and not far from me, I get off the freeway right next to the mall every day. On the other hand, the cities around me for miles have been allowing five story chicken coop apartments, excuse me ‘mixed use’ developments with retail on the first floor and homes above. I first started seeng this in Buena Park where the city condemned the seedy motels around Knott’s Berry Farm and transitioned the property to upscale venues. Then the process continued south, condemning the crime ridden motels and demolishing them and then putting up the chicken coops.

They are transforming the areas alright, I just wonder how many years until they are all vermin(the human kind)infested just like what they tore down before? Call me a throw back, but though I always  lived in housing developments and not rural open land, there weren’t a lot of apartments or other high density units around, now these mixed use units are popping up everywhere and you just know there are going to be demands that they include section eight housing and criminals.


Sorry I guess this is my day for whining about change.