San Francisco has been dealing with an ongoing saga of shuttered department stores, grocery stores, restaurants, auto dealers and the like.
On Monday, The California Globe reported:
“On Christmas Day, drug addicts shot up and passed out on the trash-littered sidewalk along Ellis Street between Franklin Street and Van Ness Avenue, just across the street from Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory School.
Then, Sacred Heart rang in the New Year by installing garden planters in front of their soccer field on Eddy Street between Gough and Laguna Streets.”
Isn’t this lovely.
The Safeway in the Fillmore District is closing.
The downtown San Francisco Adidas store is closing.
The Cadillac Bar & Grill at 44 9th Street is temporarily closed. “I called the restaurant but their phone has been disconnected.”
More photos:
A block away from Sacred Heart Cathedral , the view of Burger King on Van Ness Avenue is devastating.
Burger King, 819 Van Ness Avenue. Jan.2, 2024
Sebastian at Beyond the Chron explains:
I wrote about their smashed windows in October 2023.
They fixed their windows but got smashed again and even tagged with graffiti a few days later.
And this time, their drive-thru order glass window was also smashed.
“It’s lawless. I called the Police but they didn’t come. It’s tough to run a business without any support from the City,” a frustrated Burger King employee said to me.
Will the Burger King on Van Ness Avenue shutter next after the KFC on Duboce Avenue and Guerrero Street?
Across the street from Burger King, another store’s window was also smashed recently.
Tents in front of 850 Van Ness Ave. Jan. 2, 2024
“San Francisco voters I talked to share the same frustrations over homelessness, crime, and open-air drug markets in the City,” Sebastian says.
This is first hand information from a San Francisco resident very upset about what the politicians are doing to the city he loves.
Sebastian said “Hollister Co. in the mall also quietly closed on December 13, 2023.”
He says:
But on the bright sight, William-Sonoma in Union Square is not having a store-closing sale.
“We are staying for another year,” a store employee told me when I visited the store on January 6.
William-Sonoma was going to leave Union Square this year and the building would become a Channel store.
San Francisco voters are at their wits’ end with the state of their city.
They ask “What will be the breaking point?”
They demand law and order and change in 2024.
They want SF’s wannabe mayors to read their lips: “Business As Usual Has Not Served This City Well!”