Retailers abandon ailing downtown San Francisco
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- Опубликовано: 15 июл 2023
- Major retailers are closing stores and abandoning downtown San Francisco as the city struggles to bring back shoppers, workers and tourists after the pandemic. City leaders and experts see an opportunity to re-imagine downtown. (July 16) (AP Video/Terry Chea)
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How are businesses supposed to stay open when people are allowed to steal arms full of products without any repercussions?
Wait till you hear about the lease costs for some of these places. Real estate lacking a robust set of federal regulations that protect community building is the root cause of all this madness.
Lol exactly
You traded safety and freedom for diversity at any cost
But you voted in Newsom :))
@@KookusMaximus wha about the all time high theft, that cant help
My heart goes out to all the shoplifters, thieves, and robbers who now have to venture further out from the safety of their home cities in order to get their wares in hopes of supplementing all their government assistance program checks.
Thank you.
They want to starve people, said one person in Portland in January when the last Walmart in the city was closing.
actually, they can vandalize and steal from their own cities now.
It does make it rather inconvenience..
They should definitely file an injunction with the ACLU.
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Dead on accurate.
"San Francisco has a great future as a center for artists." 1bdrm apartments start at $2.5k. Where do they find these goofballs they interview?
Use to visit Fan Francisco with family. Now, I wouldn't want to to be near that city. I rather spend my money at a place I won't get accosted by homeless druggies or have my rental car broke into.
You forgot robbed at gunpoint
@@user-sw2wv1zx1timpossible, California is ToUgH oN GuN CoNTroL
Cannot blame Amazon and online shopping for this
Right! I’m a programmer, and though I enjoy my online shopping, video games, and video streaming, I also enjoy eating out and shopping a few clothes that I can try on.
“Reimagine” downtown San Francisco? I’m an artist and I don’t even want to go there. Never-mind having a working studio there and risking everything bring stolen, or car windows being smashed. Moreover, the chance of stepping on human 💩!
Bye, Karen
Then imagine living in a red state… that’s the epitome of what you just described
@@sashamoore9691I live in a red state haven't had to lock my doors to my home or car in 6 yrs. Or having to watch were I step because of human feces. Can SF say the same? I didn't think so.
It's pretty hopeless if that's all they can come up with to solve the problem that is San Francisco, transforming it into a mecca for artists without dealing with the underlying problems.
@@sashamoore9691 Totally disingenuous comment. Only in the blue cities within those red states as you well know.
Lease/rent is too costly, no repercussions for thieves, and there is more money to be made in "managing" the issue than solving it; I doubt SF will ever return to a "normal" state ever again.
That is the hope anyways
After the next San Andreas fault earthquake thing should return to normal..
This! Exactly
The moment the USA closed the Naval base, Hunter’s Point shipping, the Concord Naval ammo dump, the city died
'ReImagining PoPo'
Chamber of Commerce says it's an opportunity to re-image = Not addressing the shoplifting, homeless, drug problemd as well as illegal immigrants makes the city poor and no amount of re-image will make the city recover.
I think saying "re-imagine" is just a play of words to confuse people that something of worth will occur. Just like how they always say they are going to re-imagine the police.
If you don't fix the problem then San Francisco is going to be doomed city, with a mayor that turned blind eye to crimes, homelessness, drug dealing in broad daylight and the residents itself who keeps on voting the same politicians because of they're stance against the other party then this is going to be another Detroit.
Seems almost as if they are saying "We didn't like it the way it was, so we made an untenable situation so we can re-image it the way we really want it to be." Arts solves everything!
I like how they ended that with the man saying I actually think San Francisco has a great future? the way he said that last word like it was a question because he knows it doesn't
and he is supposed to be a professor. 🤦♂
And he's living in Toronto.
Yeah. That made me laugh. He said the artsy-types are going to bring SF back!
Delusional
I would leave too. The mayor does not protect the businesses or tax paying citizens. Her priorities are the homeless and criminal rights. San Francisco has been destroyed. Most restaurants have closed and cannot afford to pay their workers.
That's what happens when people vote Democrat too long.
Artists and creatives, the true pioneering spirit. 😆 I think you’ve been living well on hot air for a minute too long. 😂
Anyone remember when San Francisco was a tourist destination..
Then came diversity
In fact, from 1952 through 1988, Republicans won every presidential election except the landslide loss of Barry Goldwater in 1964.
I visited in 2005 and it was awesome. Now, I don't feel safe and wouldn't bring my own kids near any of that.
I remember coming to San Francisco in the 90s. Wonderful times.
@@GROGU123 So diversity not a strength?
Artist and creatives will paint and sculpt us out of this mess...AMEN 🙏
Ya right. 😆
Wow. Total denial.
I choose to shop online because it feels unsafe to go downtown. Parking is unsafe and lots are too expensive.
And don't forget to vote blue, no matter who!
Nothing the homeless street people like better than a Artist colony. I sure the Artists will love their new neighbors.
Legalized crime. Not going to re imagine your way out of the mess you've created.
How nice of Mr. Rodney Fong of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce talking about re-imaging downtown San Francisco without even mentioning the problems of homeless encampment all over downtown, rampant drug use in broad daylight, lawlessness, criminality, human waste on sidewalks, etc etc.
The only thing SF lacks is leadership. Real leadership would not have to "reimagine" anything. They'd look at the situation and figure it out real quick. Stores are closing because there are no customers. There are no customers because they don't want to be around drug use, thieves, filth and the mentally ill. So, competent leadership would arrest and jail the thieves, require the homeless to stay in shelters, prohibit drug use, clean the streets and put the mentally ill in mental hospitals. People would then return and so would the stores. The only thing lacking is leadership.
The other aspect of "there are no customers" is the rise of remote work (or hybrid schedules) since 2020. White-collar workers figured out that they don't need to live in or commute to an expensive city anymore, and they're taking their spending power with them.
Even if SF is cleaned up, most of those remote workers still won't want to return. Every major city -- SF, NYC, LA, ATL, MIA -- has been seeing high vacancy rates for downtown office spaces, as well as sharp drops in per-person spending for retail and restaurants.
Absolutely!
@Cosmo1093 Tourists and other people in California used to go to SF
@@Cosmo1093 I left in 2018. Keep on blaming the remote work, covid, etc. I even predicted they will lose Westfield mall in 2016. It's a city of radical fees, fines and taxes but they keep voting friendly criminal Democrats no matter what so it shouldn't be a surprise.
Playing the worlds smallest violin, bring those waa waa tears, here is handkerchief, cry all you want….this is what happens few folks especially major corporations avoid paying taxes by stashing the cash in offshore banks and in cryptocurrency…..Native Americans are laughing all kinds of ways, the European colonists are decolonizing themselves with many heading back to Europe…go join them
San Fran has been open to all, that is the problem. U will not fill all the void with artists and entertainers. U must make it safe
Crime. See it EVERY DAY.
Liberal utopia .
I thought capitalism was bad? Why does San Francisco now want people to buy/consume in Dowtown? Is this not what you voted for? Why complain?
I'm from a SEA country and have visited SF in 2011. I know our country have A LOT of problems, but having thieves steal goods in broad daylight in the CENTER of a city is not one of them. large scale shop lifters in broad daylight in my country would have been mobbed by the shopkeepers and arrested/ paraded on every new channel . This is very saddening to see such a beautiful city that i remember crumble down like this. I hope they get their s___t together!
The pandemic shows that you should not close the economy for years and get people fired. I was in Universal Orlando riding rides maskless shoulder to shoulder with people while California was on lockdown and Disneyland closed.
Also rewarding criminals is what CA and other major leftist cities results in SF & LA becoming life.
My wife and me flew round trip to Orlando from LA. For $200.00 and spent a week at Disneyworld ,
@@MrMojaboyou should be arrested by your Governor fir that
Nah, the pandemic showed that working-from-home, or at least a hybrid schedule, made far more sense for white collar workers than living in or commuting to an overpriced city. One of the side-effects is that there's fewer white-collar workers in the city to spend money at local businesses. The office occupancy rate has plummeted since 2019, even as tech industry profits soared.
@@Cosmo1093 Of course more people are working remotely. Some have discovered they can work in other states and pay less taxes. Businesses have also discovered that there are other states to choose from where draconian laws don't linger for years.
How many artists? They do not fill the void, hopeless romantic dream
They have to "reshape and re-imagine" their city government. Even artist's have their limits of depravity, squalor and violence. What makes them think that town is attractive to that population these days?
The Associated Press. "Officially the last to know."
The homeless population in downtown SF turned me off! I often stay in SF for work but choose to get a room near the Marina.
I see Detroit in 3….2….1
do "creatives" and "pioneers" like rampant crime? it's hard to envision SF having a "great future" unless it becomes a safer city.
“Back to Artists and creatives; the true pioneering spirit.” Production is always what pays the bills. Not art. This guy is an example of where they went wrong.
Artists with "pioneering spirit" didn't build San Francisco. Hard men, digging in the ground for gold, did. The libertine attitude of "artists and creatives" is what's destroying San Francisco.
😮💔😳Oh my, how sad and depressing! Beautiful San Francisco!💔💔
Very
It is still beautiful, you believe everything you see on RUclips….at least they can’t blame African Americans alone anymore for the shoplifting, almost all White Shoplifters in recent ABC7 expośe on Walgreens Shopping who refuses to sign complaints….lol lol lol
I can only laugh at this to keep my sanity.
There’s always a way out
SF will reimagine and re-engineer. They will do everything but address the real issues of crime and vagrancy.
Yep your politicians are doing such a great job.😊 Keep voting the way you vote it will never change😢
Richard needs to tell that to city officials who've gotten used to that lucrative tech money
The Lakota call it Lazataki eheyah
No consequences for crime and cartels have set the tone for the next decade or so.
They need to do something with the homeless and cleanliness of downtown. Who wants to go shopping when you have to look over your shoulder all the time.
How is the Socialist Utopia working out for you San Francisco?
A sign of liberal progress for sure! You wanted a lawless wasteland, you got one
SF0 is an open pit toilet. Reimagine SFO into a cess pool. Ya, that's an upgrade.
Adding new painting to the wall wont bring people back. #1 priority is to protect the tax paying citizens and business owners. Prosecute the criminals and actually keep them behind bars.
If this is the case - how is rent still rising?
This is commercial property.
The city got to take care of ILLEGAL INVADERS first. 😂
I left in 2018, you're reimagining because you couldn't imagine that SF was going downhill.
Elections have consequences and Democrats are weak on crime so enjoy what you voted for SF 😂
Since this video was posted like 5 days ago dozens of other businesses leaving
Lots of city centers are struggling as consumers change their shopping and leisure habits. Why travel to, say, downtown San Francisco when you only want to see the Bay and/or visit the Wharf? No need to go into city center.
the reason is homeless everywhere combined with car break ins at record levels which keep people away from downtown in general. throw in the chance for stores to get robbed or broken into 2-3 times a week and thats why the stores in san fran are all closed.
@@Itraininthebogs Lib divershitty
@@Itraininthebogs Crime and homelessness are contributing factors, but downtown city centers across the country have been struggling ever since remote/hybrid work became popular in 2020. A lot of people just don't want to live/work in expensive cities if they don't have to. Without office workers living in or commuting to downtown every day, there's far fewer people to spend money at restaurants or retail.
As we now collect information from around the globe...the distraught areas of Cali are looking 3rd world and worse.
I’m a registered nurse and I have been offered a job in San Francisco. It’s kinda scary feeling though regardless of what the job pays. Prolly best to drive in for work to a secure parking garage and straight back out, in a bullet proof car lol
yes artists and creative people. those are the ones who will bring 10s of thousands of new job. This professors are absolutely delusional. Wondering what they must be teaching their students!!
Well at least we'll get a new soccer field out of this.
@@WhiskeyThieves but then all the homeless/ druggies will takeover the soccer field as well pitching tents and everything.
This is very sad. For what this world has become of it. 😢
"Reshape and Reimagine"? How about enforcing the law and deal with the people living on the streets?
That is progressive
Are there any Dollar General stores involved ? Smh
Blame the Mayor and the DA
It's funny how they mention Covid but not crime and lack of prosecution.
It's simple, enforce the laws and clean up the streets. People won't come back to drug infested and crime ridden places where they feel unsafe. It's a shame the city leaders won't support businesses. No business means fewer tourists and declining revenue for the city.
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The city went from getting body checked, BART Frotteurism, always standing in line all the time to where did everybody go
The entire state is quickly becoming a dystopian nightmare. A harbinger of the nation's future et al if there aren't incredibly drastic overhauls to the way people think and how they choose to hold government accountable for serving their crooked corporate overlords.
California is the irrefutable proof that democracy works.
They voted Dems, they got a sh!thole, which what precisely what they wanted out of that vote.
“Challenges” on our street🤣🤣🤣
I'll open one of my shops in San Francisco if the city pays my rent and insurance that are sky high.
are you insurable opening a shop in DT SF?
The SF government should try taxing fentanyl and shoplifting. That will soon be the only economic activity in the city.
Agreed
Woe, i would move bavk of it were more artist focused and affordable. I left because it was top fast pacec and everyone moving there was a business major or bsnker or stwrtup tech geek... But the true heart of SF is in tbe creatiive people, they made SF its true!
everyone in this story seems completely detached from reality to me. if san fransicko wants a bit of success, they should convert all that available space to abortion clinics, trans clinics, and homeless shelters.
You reap what you sew……….
Sow
Ask San Francisco mayor
It's not just the problem with the homeless going on there it's also how much the rent is over $200,000
Lower the rents and maybe it wont be so dead.
Thats not the problem
Its crime not driven out
@@silentmajority8365 you sure?? Ove heard nothing but how expensive it is there. Almost a cause of all the homelessness in the area
@@silentmajority8365crime was around prior to the pandemic. Its high cost and most importantly less traffic due to companies doing hybrid. I worked down there for 15 years and during the pandemic.
@@Turtl289 expensive rent does not cost homelessness. These homeless are coming from other parts of the state/country. If you are sane, able, and willing, you can rent and drive/public transportation to work in the Bay Area. And use the weekends visit SF. Most people move out of SF to buy homes and commune to work.
You are clueless to think it is the high rent that is causing the destruction.
Even if the city paid my rent for a year, I still wouldn't live there.
The last guy is 100% the problem
Commodity retail malls and techies. A completely artificial existence.
I hope the rest will be closed soon
Deluded. Start arresting the criminals and stop calling drug addicts "homeless people" as if the mess they have gotten themsleves into has nothing to do with them.
Why you guys voted for that lady at the first place?
This is sad
rather go to Mogadishu
SF is in free fall now. Terminal velocity to a crash landing. When that occurs, perhaps then the city can rejuvinate itself. But that will require at minimum becomming a "purple" city politically and culturally. "Artists and creatives," no matter how much "true pioneering spirit" they have are NOT going to bring SF back to life. You need business, the middle class, and capital to do that. Maybe the CCP will buy up downtown SF real estate on the cheap and manufacture the fentanyl direct-to-consumer from there.
If someone offered me a free round-trip ticket to San Francisco, all expenses paid, buy what you want...I would pass on it. SF will collapse if something isn't done and soon. It is time to "Clean House" and that includes the politicians that do nothing for the people who voted them in.
Wait for the next mayor to be in office before coming back here. It is not safe.
@@mocheen4837 - Hopefully, they choose someone who will actually take care of the city and its people.
Tech abandoned downtown when all the workers worked from home. The city was vibrant before tech got there and raised the rents and cost of living.
Boom. Your comment is exactly how this all started. Everyone wants to blame the homeless and shoplifters, but the root is from tech pushing everyone out and raising prices, which raised poverty and crime. Covid just made this happen faster, but the city was already losing its heart and soul from allowing tech businesses to push local businesses out. Money truly is the root of evil smh
sculpt some art out of Homeless Doody! Let's GO!
Now those greedy, big businesses will pay their fair share of tax (IN A DIFFERENT STATE). 😄
There should be a law in place where you can’t leave the city you vote into.
NYS going to down the tubes too but you dont report it.
NYS....Where is that?
Where is this " sity" jenn?
@optimisticoutreach1236 CNY. Everything closing up and leaving. Crime is terrible.
@@jenniferbombard8211 you can't spell AND "like" your own comments. You are a treasure.
@@optimisticoutreach1236 wow just grow up
A bar in the United States that accepts euros thats odd ??? 0:50
This guy is so lost people leave because of the crime and homeless problem
I hope San Fran gets Jack the Ripper to take care of the homeless I really do
Re imagine a city with less crime and homelessness
Stop blaming the pandemic. If you wouldn't have voted for an activist DA (Boudin), enforced laws, cleaned up the streets and make SF beautiful again, this would be bustling with people shopping.
San Francisco is not coming back! It is lost
Time for a red wave.
Honestly the pandemic made me order more from Uber eats and that habit hasn’t changed. I just rather dine at home and shop via Amazon ever since. The pandemic changed or habits a lot we just have to learn to adapt to those changes.
Get rid of the homeless.
Okay, Adolph. Any suggestions? Use for cat food ?
Export them to China, they can give them jobs.. and food.. and even fentanyl
@@t0manderson571how about jail...for retail theft.
@@t0manderson571 jail. bus them out. bear mace.
@@t0manderson571 Jail and institutions 3 hots and a cot
city leaders and Experts see an opportunity , REALLY! YOU can NOT TURN BACK THE HANDS OF TIME.😅😅😅
350k per annum for selling drugs in S.F.
Looming sad ending for a once beautiful destination.
As this is my ruined home town, I say:
Kick out Pelosi & Newsom, & all these ridiculous liberal policies.
Problem solved.
The City leaders wont do anything pro active and will only realize that they either have to do WORK and do something or look at their terminal pay on their earliest retirement date once most of the businesses pull out of SF.
Sf opened its arms to techies.. they enjoyed the city for 2yrs. Pandemic, they left and so did everything the city bet on, sales, rent, population.
I knew the plan the whole time