11 May 2023

The Continuing Decline of San Francisco

Union Square will be a ghost-town, or it will completely devoted to homeless camps and drug use. T-Mobile becomes San Francisco's latest retail casualty as phone carrier shutters flagship store | Fox Business

T-Mobile’s two-story flagship location in San Francisco’s Union Square neighborhood was permanently shuttered, with a note now directing customers to instead visit two other locations in the city, according to the San Francisco Business Times.

One of my favorite SF restaurants was on Union Square, but it closed MANY years ago.

The article lists other stores in and around Union Square that have closed recently, or announced that they will be closing. One of those stores closing was Nordstrom.

A spokesperson for a mall where one of the Nordstrom shops is located told the outlet that "a growing number of retailers and businesses are leaving the area due to the unsafe conditions for customers, retailers, and employees, coupled with the fact that these significant issues are preventing an economic recovery of the area."

I don't see anything changing in California for the foreseeable future. Propositions have changed the law, or rather eliminated the law in many cases, and the people of that state will be stuck dealing with crime as a result. I may need to rewatch Escape from LA.

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