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Nordstrom closing SF Locations.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/after-nordstrom-closures-s-f-stop-retail-exodus-18074794.php
After Nordstrom store closures, what can San Francisco do to stop the retail exodus?
You might remember Brooke Jenkins, San Fransisco’s replacement District Attorney, after woke S.F. citizens recalled Jenkins’ useless Soros-funded predecessor, Chesa Boudin (if that’s his real name).
Jenkins seems to have gotten the message.
Michael Anthony, 33, is a security guard at a downtown San Fransisco Walgreens. On April 27th, officers responded to a report of a shooting at his Walgreens and found a victim, later identified as Banko Brown, who had been shot and killed.
Brown was a homeless “trans man” (a biological woman) of color. Security guard Anthony was briefly arrested for homicide. ...
In a statement last Monday, District Attorney Jenkins said that charges were dropped because prosecutors could not prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the guard was guilty of a crime after they reviewed statements from witnesses and the guard, along with video footage of the April 27 episode at a store on Market Street. ...
What we do know about the video is that it apparently shows that homeless Banko — I know you’re going to find this hard to believe — probably assaulted Mr. Anthony after being stopped for shoplifting. But Ms. Jenkins said in a statement, “This was a shoplifting that, really, based on the facts, turned into and escalated into a robbery, and the armed security guard did, ultimately, end up using lethal force. The evidence clearly shows that the suspect believed he was in mortal danger and acted in self-defense.”
Ms. Jenkins called the Brown’s killing a “tragedy,” but said, “We cannot bring forward charges when there is credible evidence of reasonable self-defense. Doing so would be unethical and create false hope for a successful prosecution.”
What we don’t know is whether Banko was hopped up on free, City-provided testosterone. I’d give it even odds.
The headline is hilarious:
After Nordstrom store closures, what can San Francisco do to stop the retail exodus?
To stop the exodus, enforce the law.
Like it's such a difficult hard to grasp solution to a complex mysterious problem.
In an email last Tuesday, Nordstrom’s chief retail officer explained to employees that “the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”
Haha, the “dynamics” of downtown, that’s a good one. He means like the exciting “dynamic” situation when a homeless lunatic like Banko Brown suddenly and unexpectedly assaults you in broad daylight for no reason.
The Westfield mall’s owner was more blunt and less politically correct. His statement said the Nordstroms’ closure “underscores the deteriorating situation in Downtown San Francisco.” It explained, without mincing words, “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.” ...
Meanwhile, billionaires like Peter Thiel are complaining that Florida’s booming real estate is too expensive. What could the difference be?
'What the f* happened to this place?' Dave Chappelle slams San Francisco as 'half Glee, half zombie movie' at surprise gig - as he recalls homeless person DEFECATING outside Indian restaurant he was about to eat in
Dave Chappelle, 49, slammed the city's rampant homeless crisis on Thursday
The comedian put on a surprise performance at the Masonic Auditorium
He said San Francisco was now the Tenderloin - which is a district of San Francisco notorious for its crime, homelessness and drug problems
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2023/05/15/let-the-blue-cities-die-n2623218
That is why the Globalists want to reduce the collective intelligence, because they fear the natively intelligent in the populace.
I know it's terrible to expose kids to the truth too early, but I wish I was exposed to it earlier.
Are you sure you were not exposed? Or just not ready to accept it yet.
Funny you should mention Social Conformance via Late Nite (Un)funny Men.
Just saw this minutes ago:
Funny you should mention Social Conformance via Late Nite (Un)funny Men.
Absence makes the heart grow scornier. When you are on hiatus from the hypnotist propagandists for a while and then watch them, they can fill you with peak revulsion, they are so contemptible. I realize that my Santa Cruz liberal friend does this to me, as pointed out in the Oliver article, a reflex derisive laughter, but then he will listen afterward.
Crime, Homelessness and Commercial Vacancies: SJ’s Doom Loop Mirrors SF
San Francisco Does Detroit
Nordstrom’s closure marks the beginning of the end for the City by the Bay.
May 6, 2023
I left San Francisco just in time — at the end of 2016.
Sure, I saw the occasional junkie shooting up in public when I still worked in the city. And yes, I saw men use the sidewalk at the intersection of Fifth and Market streets as a toilet.
But I never saw swarms of shoplifters emptying pharmacy shelves. If I needed new shoes, I could pop over to Nordstrom at the Westfield San Francisco Centre at Fifth and Market.
Market Street is an obstacle course of used free needles and damaged souls.
The number of friends who had stopped going into the city entirely — and switched to shopping in suburban malls — was unsettling, but tourists could help fill the gap.
This week, sadly, Nordstrom announced that it won’t renew its lease at the Westfield Centre.
The chief stores officer, Jamie Nordstrom, explained in a statement that “the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”
That’s corporate-speak for: Our customers are afraid to go there.
I had almost gotten used to dodging panhandlers and homeless people as I went to and from work.
In 2015, I started writing about how much the city smelled. “Stench and the City” became a recurring theme.
Then-Mayor Ed Lee blamed the drought for the sour smells. ...
If a foreign power — or Republicans — had done to the City by the Bay what the ruling class has allowed to occur, voters would be outraged. Instead, they save their ire for Donald Trump, for all the good that does.
That liberal sense of moral superiority will be the death of the Special City. Years from now, when downtown feels like Detroit, San Franciscans will look at the closure of Nordstrom’s downtown store as the day the music died.
What are you all thoughts on renting in downtown SF?
Oakland Residents Finally Revolt Against Crime: ‘We Are Victims of Failed Progressive Utopia’
The owner of two of San Francisco’s biggest hotels has thrown in the towel and announced it was leaving the city.
Virginia-based REIT Park Hotels & Resorts is abandoning the hotels to the lender because it lost faith the Democrat-controlled city can recover.
The company has opted to cease payments on a $725 million loan, surrendering over 2,900 hotel rooms and hospitality facilities to its lender.
They are walking away from the 1,921-room Hilton San Francisco Union Square, which is San Francisco’s largest hotel, and the 1,024-room Parc 55.
The news comes as crime rates continue to run red hot in San Francisco, Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) district.
The company has opted to cease payments on a $725 million loan, surrendering over 2,900 hotel rooms and hospitality facilities to its lender.
SAN FRANCISCO -- A driver captured video of a brazen robbery while driving through traffic in San Francisco on Friday afternoon.
The driver, Alex, says he was about to get on an onramp, heading east on I-80 around 4:30 p.m. There, he witnessed someone jump out of a Honda Accord and smash a window of a Prius in front of him.
The thief grabbed a bag and drove off.
The news comes as crime rates continue to run red hot in San Francisco, Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) district.
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