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Re:Westfield’s San Francisco Centre Mall Lost 46% of Its Sto... by idlewords on Saturday June 17, 2023 @04:48PM (#36374433)
The Westfield Mall was right off a BART stop, so it was a fairly convenient place to go shop in SF if you didn't have a car. It was also near the flagship stores around Union Square, which is the main hotel district and another destination shopping spot. So the mall (at least when I used to go there) would be pretty busy even on weekends or evenings when the financial district was dead silent.
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Re:Westfield’s San Francisco Centre Mall Lost 46% of Its Sto... by simoncion on Saturday June 17, 2023 @05:19PM (#36374735)
Oh yeah, it is definitely in a really good location. Being right next to BART is usually super good for foot traffic... and being very close to Union Square is (was?) also super good.

And yeah, like four years ago the Westfield Mall had _way_ more foot traffic than it had the few times I visited like four or six months ago.

I was just wondering out loud about the effects of the loss of the workers in FiDi.

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