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Once-thriving shopping mall in ailing Democrat-run city is eerily empty on last Sunday before...
A once-iconic mall that used to be a holiday shopping hotspot appeared creepily empty in the days leading up to Christmas.
The San Francisco Centre, formerly known as the Westfield Mall, bustled with eager customers scoping out pricey items from the luxury retailers that filled the nine-level complex in its prime.
But now, the roughly 1.5 million-square-foot mall - the largest in San Francisco - sits nearly vacant, with about 93 percent of its storefronts empty.
Video from inside the shopping center just five days before Christmas showed the mall's drastic decline. It's unclear what time it was when the video was filmed.
The mall has been struggling since the COVID pandemic, as consumers turned toward online shopping.
Surging crime in San Francisco's downtown did not help matters either, with the mall's value plummeting.
The mall, which was valued at $1.2 billion about a decade ago, was foreclosed on in November.
It was sold to lenders, including JPMorgan Chase and Deutsche Bank, for $133 million.
The banks have hired real estate brokerage CBRE to find a new buyer for the mall - and the firm's executive vice president, Kyle Kovac, told CBS News that the sale signals a new era for the property.
He told the outlet: 'Amid renewed civic leadership, three consecutive years of positive population growth and surging demand from artificial intelligence and technology firms, San Francisco Centre & Emporium is uniquely positioned to anchor the next chapter in downtown San Francisco's recovery.'
But others are less convinced that the mall's much-needed comeback is tangible.
Local Neil Wotherspoon, who told CBS in November that he visits the mall about once a week to order from the Panda Express in its basement - one of the only businesses still open - said he does not think the establishment's future is bright.
'I think these will be the last people to put the lights out,' he said. 'I think you'll end up with the only people who will come here will be like me to enjoy the food. Just for the Panda, that's right.'