every store is CLOSED in crocker galleria San Francisco
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Crocker Galleria features a spectacular glass pavilion soaring above three levels of specialty shops and services in downtown San Francisco but due to street conditions is down to only two tenants
in this video I’m going inside this spectacular mall to witness it’s reality so you can leave your comments about this situation
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I remember how Crocker Galleria was packed with foot traffic and during middle of the day, people eating at all those tables, around the railings, inside the restaurants, everything was high end and tourists walked through there too.
They had a black grand piano down on the ground level and for hours during the lunch time, someone would sit down there playing popular upbeat music on the grand piano and it echoed through the entire arcade.
There was an art gallery on the second floor which featured different artists every month and the artists themselves would be the sales people for this gallery. Everything in that arcade/mall was upscale, pricey and aimed at a high end audience.
Unlike nowadays, the streets were jammed with foot traffic and so it could sustain itself. No, no more workers or executives or company headquarters translates into no more customers and with tourism down, none of them either.
Just like Embarcadero Center, Union Square and the big Westfield Mall at Market and Fifth, no more business to sustain the place and add in for shoplifting, car break-ins, homeless camps on the streets, open air drug markets, no police and no prosecuting DAs and you end up with just this, an all dead city.
Somewhere entities with lots and lots and lots of money are going to be able to buy all that back up once everyone else has gone bankrupt, stopped paying their leases or mortgages and gone into foreclosure, for pennies on the dollar. Everyone from certain corporations to certain politicians to certain billionaires, all going to profit on everyone else's financial and economic pain and suffering by the time the story plays itself out.
San Jose and Oakland, same story. Nice video series showing how once beautiful SF Bay area has gone down in status to something undesirable, unsafe and no longer anyplace anyone in their right minds would want to actually go live, visit or work, not in the current condition of these cities and surrounding areas which is deplorable.
The way you described Crocker galleria back in the day with the grand piano and the sound echoing throughout the building. It’s like watching an old movie in my head. Thank you for sharing.
Very SAD state of affairs!!!!!
Wow how my State change 😮
@@lilliampando9463 As long as the voters keep electing do nothing liberal democrats nothing will ever improve till the middle class has to escape as refugees to other states as nothing is left of the Golden state now worth saving apparently.
The developer did a nice job. You get his take on things.
Having worked right in this area for many years from mid-80's to late 90's it's mind boggling how this once vibrant jewel of a city could transition to this state of dystopia.
Hunger Games California starts in 2024
Simple
Covid lockdowns. It destroyed all of the cities in the States that pushed them.
Not all cities look like this
Mind boggling, but not surprising. When illegal aliens get better treatment than citizens, when it's nearly against the law to defend yourself, when a population is racist against white people, when they avoid someone not wearing a mask but explain away breaking car windows to steal what's inside, and when stealing
The reason is simple.... Keep voting Blue no matter who and expecting a different result. You get what you vote for.... Enjoy!!
It's the disgusting politics that made this so.
The LATE, great San Francisco, once a World Class City. San Francisco residents voted that in and KEPT voting that condition in EVEN when their cars were carjacked, windows smashed in and every luxury store robbed at gunpoint. No one should be surprised, you get the government you deserve and vote for. THAT is America by 2030 IF it takes that long. GREAT video Leo, thank you so much!
SAVE AMERICA
TRUMP 2024.
F DEMONRATS
FJB
This is all a byproduct of the tech boom and nimbys shutting down new housing development all through the city. This caused rents to soar to the highest in the world driving working class people onto the streets or out of the city altogether. Without working class the retail can't get labor and the final nail is office buildings empty so theres no daytime population to buy things. Like watching a big slow toilet flush for the entire city over the last few years and its about to all go down the drain gone for a long time
@@ScratchGlass9you are delusional !!
Exactly
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Since I discovered your channel, I pay more attention to the vacancy rate of shopping centers in my country (France). It's really a good indicator of financial health. And it's beginning to collapse here too, even in big malls near Paris. So thank you for yours videos, even if I find them terrifying.
Interesting that it is even happening in France. I blame the wealth gap - large amounts of wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. The middle class and working class are disappearing. And these wealthy elites, so far removed from reality, in order to feel less guilty for all the of this wealth they hoard, push certain policies that cause even more damage and make life even more unliveable.
@@Nothing-fp7jg You're absolutely right.
Thank you for the support! Maybe I’ll have to pay visit to France someday
Shopping malls at least here in Florida where I live usually fall victim to changing demographics of the area. People with financial means end up moving to the newer areas and going to the newer malls developed to serve that area. This leaves the older malls in blighted economic deserts over a period of time. Shops in the old mall change character to serve the remaining lower economic demographic but will eventually fail and become deserted. And in Florida this can happen quite rapidly. Here in the Orlando area we have vacant malls that were thriving ten years ago. And yes online shopping has also contributed greatly.
I worked here in One Market Plaza office attached to this for 20 years. This is sad to see this. This place was really booming in the 80's and 90's
Thanks for sharing!
Yes I worked in the city back in the 1990's and this was a very nice place to shop! Not anymore. These green slogans on the windows are just propaganda at this point.
Sad sad sad...
For those of you that aren't old enough, this was one of the FIRST luxury Malls... Polo Ralph Lauren (1908's) and Gianni Versace were here....Sad
Thanks for sharing!
Dang! They can't be looted now.
It's a beautiful building. Tragic, really.
I remember this place oozed with elegance and luxury in the day
I had a girlfriend who worked at Ralph Lauren. I worked at Ralph Davies on Maiden Lane.
This is brutal! We are in big trouble! As always thanks for the work you are doing! Better than any news agency!
Much appreciated ,you’re right it is brutal!
@@LeoMetalTraveler Well your title for the video wasn't right. Every store inside was not closed. You basically said EVERYTHING was closed. Even though there were some still in business. You should change the titles in your video(s). To something like SOME stores closed.
Wow, very dystopian. No foot traffic at all in the mall. It's going to be hard to recover from this, malls are practically going to have to give up these spaces for free for businesses. Of course, the biggest problem lies in the unchecked crime in SF. Businesses are scared to operate because they are offered no protection from theft, people are too scared to be out and about because of open air drugs and light on crime policies. Leadership needs to change in order to right the ship.
Again, thank you for making these videos. People need to see what's happening to SF, I don't think many realize how dire it is. This is not the SF that I grew up in back in the 90s.
You are right , the 90s what’s the best era thank you for sharing
Another openly gay person of color in power might help? I don't know. Just a thought😂
If you are a hard working,-tax-paying,citizen-who "obeys the Law"--the Gov.-hates you !--1984 is here with "steroids"
government is the problem everywhere. they are inept. all modern failures and social ills can be traced back to faulty laws, policy, and enforcement.
it's not going to get better.
the slide is accelerating nationwide. there is no solution, because no solution is wanted. job security, for them, is an unsolved problem.
Won't change in your lifetime.
In the nineties, I worked two blocks away from the Gallaria,and had lunch there quite often. It was always filled with people buying flowers, getting their shoes shined, drinking coffee, etc. Its so sad to see what happen to such a great mall.😢
I know it’s sad to see it empty like this. Thank you for sharing.
Keep posting Leo! We need more west coast coverage from UA-camrs like you concerning the death of retail and office space. Thank you!
Will do!
@@LeoMetalTravelerIt would be very helpful to your viewers if you told us what day and time you're filming. Unless there's a reason to not tell us?
@@lovequeen7080 This would be great for a photo.
@@LeoMetalTravelerin your next video please devote several minutes to talking about what you believe is the future of retail in the Bay area. 🛒 What are the conditions in the suburbs? And do you believe everything will switch over to Amazon? 🛒Has Amazon already won the retail War? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐*For the first time in years I had to rely on Amazon to buy something (to purchase some boxers briefs that were very hard to find in my size.) I was even offered free shipping.
@@lovequeen7080 it’s a Saturday at around 2:00 pm is my guess
Leo, Excellent post about the death of retail in San Francisco. Amazon already puts so much pressure on retail malls and stores, when you add needles and turds on the sidewalks and government sponsored shoplifting? Forget about it!
You forgot Democrat progressive policy... Just sayin... You get what you vote for.... Enjoy!
I wonder what the power bill is to keep that big empty going
Huge energy bill 💵
Huge energy bill, huge property taxes, huge insurance bills…the bank will end up holding the ball.
They threw law enforcement under the bus, declared open season on businesses and now the criminals have taken over and everyone is fleeing.
Throw on top of that insane commerical rents, burdensome regulatory environment, high taxes and high employee costs and it is simply unfeasible to operate retail. The policing policies were just the last straw.
Or maybe Newsome can simply require $100 an hour of value from a low value worker in order to be employable in the state. Insanity if you understand what regulations and minimum wages really imply.
What's worse is most of the people fleeing more than likely voted for this democratic failure and moved to a red state.
Leo, thanks again for all the hard work! I guess America is an exceptional country where malls are built and nobody is in it! In that aspect they are very exceptional. On a different note, nobody says “CLOSED” as well as you do! Keep up the good work!
Will do! CLOSED!!! ⛔️
My favorite part of all of his videos are “good luck with that“. You had to have lived in the cities in order to understand the satisfaction.
Yep SF is a lost cause, I'm so glad I left. The one party politics of the city ate itself to death.
@@aman2112 Felt the same way when I left L.A. years ago. Best decision I ever made.
I left the US a while back
In beautiful Asia now
Not planning a return really
I work accross the street and it's a total mystery to me how this whole beautiful buiding + the building next to it have been sitting empty for at least 3 years now, in the heart of SF. A true failure.
You must be slow to comprehend. Having thousands of mentally ill drug addicts in tents, and the entire ambience of it is the point. Oh. The smells, the crime, the unchecked rape, robbery and crapulance. Brought to you by the Bay Area Democrat party.
You are 100% right what a waste of such stunning building. Very nice to meet you in person yesterday when I was recording this video it’s always great to share ideas and thoughts with the community in the Metal club take care and I hope to see you soon !
It’s because cowardly men followed neurotic women around because they didn’t feel safe. They wore a coward mask to show they were scared. These men will be cursed by future generations
The products they sell doesn’t cover the lease payment
Is it really a “mystery” as to why these buildings are empty?
Beautiful place but going woke has its consequences. All these cities with failed policies are destroying themselves, unfortunately the people keep voting in the very people that have no interest in them or the city. At least the homeless are going to have places to move in
What does being woke mean, or don't you know either?
I couldn’t help but notice how clean, well maintained and “expectant” the center seems to be of tenants and traffic, yet no security or custodians to be seen. I was gravely saddened by the scene. I worked in “The City” in the the ‘80s. It was exhuberant, alive, young and rattled with vibrancy.
Thanks for sharing
Their security is very good. Once a homeless or rift raft enters the mall, they immediately make their presence known.
WORD SALAD
You get what you vote for.
I am just lucky to have known this city 30 - 40 years ago. Even with the AIDS crisis and homelessness back then, it was still breathtaking. I spent a lot of money there on vacations...shopping...restaurants...bars. Not sure if I will ever go back. It would take decades to replace what's gone --even if things changed overnight.
I lived in that area for most of the time frame you gave. I know the mindset of City dwellers. They complain about this $#!+hole of a city, yet happily reelect the politicians who made it that way so that they can brag about their diversity and open-mindedness. It won't come back. And, now that I live in Free America, I won't go back either.
@@elwoodblues9613 Free America? WTF?
@@gobbletegook - think "Red Dawn".
I just do not see how San Francisco can avoid bankruptcy in the near future.
You could just weep seeing what's happened to San Francisco. There are a few YT videos showing Crocker Galleria as a bustling beehive of activity 13/14 years ago. Beyond sad.
one day people will wake up to the fact that everything they were told and taught was at best... a partial lie or obfuscated truth. It was all illusion, and you were never going to be truthfully successful. We were shouting about this as long as I have been an adult, since the 80's, but heh, no one ever listened. Now that it is all coming true I just shake my head.
Excuse me, but if you are intelligent and have the means to get an education in a lucrative field, you can still thrive in the USA. Stop making excuses for your personal failure. The failure of a socialist city government has nothing to do with your personal situation.
When the city fails to put their foot down to criminals, the businesses leave.
It’s costing the mall owners a lot of money to keep it open for a few tenets. They would probably rather shut the whole thing down then try and lease out a couple more stores. Thanks Leo another great vid.
You are correct , thanks for the support @canamrider07
San Fran will probably make it a homeless shelter and a drug haven.
*than
@@Mycroftsbrother It will be another South Africa and Zimbabwe fiasco.
My wife once delivered mail to the shops here and just told me the mall owners have been trying for almost a decade now to get rid of all the shops, so they can convert at least some of the mall to housing. As you would say, "Good Luck with that." I guess the leases on the three remaining businesses here haven't come up yet. How many other empty storefronts in SF are there that have plans to be converted in housing? LOL Running those escalators all the time probably costs thousands of dollars a day, so yeah it's costing the mall owners a ton to keep the mall "open."
Sadly, SF will never be the same.
It may come back in 20 to 30 years. It’s going to take a conservative governor to kick ass in that state and whip it back into shape before that happens.
@@CommonSenseHuman One of the things that many people don't realize is that what the democrats and liberals, and especially this totally incompetent and corrupt Biden administration are doing today will take many decades to resolve. So it's just how bad things are now - it's how bad things will say for a very, very long time.
@@CommonSenseHuman Let’s hope sooner. If things get any worse in 20 years, it’ll be too late and too difficult (money-wise) to save SF.
The Marxist authoritarians took over the Bay Area.
Something tells me the theft, crime, drugs, and non-existent foot traffic are contributing factors
I worked there 20 years ago and it was so busy. Couldn't order lunch and eat it for my 30 minute lunch break. Gucci had jewelry and watches eat great chilli bowls on 3rd floor. The roof terrace beautiful and relaxing 😌 met so many great ppl there and fell in love there ❤️ it looks so spooky and unrealistic hard to see. Glad i got to experience the brighter days ✨️
Thanks for sharing!!
Wow..... I'm so shocked....this was THE PLACE to shop years ago 😢 what in the World?????... Sad!!
I know it’s sad to see it’s so empty yet beautiful
Crimes scare people.
Good old democrat run city. What a flippen joke
Bruce Sutter
I had enough of the Demos.
@@SA-hz1rs Florida is a state not a city.
@@katiee.4396
It's a kingdom, with Desantis I.
@@JB-yb4wn The liberal cult is worse than Scientology. You'll believe anything your elites tell you. Sad.
See how empty the streets are?
Its not just this mall, its the entire San Francisco Financial District.
There is very little foot traffic.
Tearing down the Embarcadero Freeway, and then banning all private cars from Market Street was a terrible idea.
Forcing everyone onto public transportation, and then defunding the police who keep that safe made it so much worse.
With remote access and the lockdowns people realize that SF was unnecessary as a white collar work location.
Also, many of the jobs that used to be there were automated out of existence or sent off to India.
So?
I've just finished reading all comments and this is the most plausible explanation. Very intelligent observation 👍
@@lenasauve3660I've worked there since 1986 and am getting ready to go back this morning. At this point it is just sad. Stores are still closing. The top floors of the Crocker Tower, attached to this little mall, were once occupied by the executive offices of Schwab. They moved to Texas after California passed a law that corporate boards needed to be "diverse" (as defined by the state of California). This is the real reason so many major corporations have relocated their HQs out of California.
Schwab had a retail office across the street from the tower. I just found out yesterday that it is closing as well.
@@lenasauve3660It's the impact of decades of bad policy decisions. The pandemic just demonstrated how unstable the situation had become. The latest bad decision is the legalization of streetwalkers. Believe it or not, the downtown area is now starting to have that issues as well.
It's almost as if the elected leaders now follow the wishes of criminal organizations rather than those of the citizens.
@@JackWMatrix Besides downtown, do you think SF is mostly the same as it was during the 2010s right now? Despite bad state and local policy, has SF really suffered that much overall?
Leo, great reporting, pls always be safe out there. I'm in NYC, my coworker went back home to San Francisco for a visit & when I asked her how was her visit, she said "Great". In my head, I'm like no it's not. The denial is absurd.
Some visitors stay out of San Francisco like the San Francisco international Airport. It’s actually in South San Francisco, which is not doing that bad. In that case they don’t get to see the bad or the worse parts like in downtown, but yes for sure there is a lot of denial.
Thank you for sharing and thank you for the support. Take care.
According to Mayor London Breed this is a matter of “perception” lmao
Thank you for once again showing everyone how thing really are. What a contrast to what our "elected" officials say.
OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS THINK THIS IS SUCCESS!... In case no ones noticed!
Exactly! I really had no clue things were this bad until I began following this channel.
SF should treat the immigrants better and let them move into the mall. Look how much space they have empty. They are human beings, and we were all immigrants once. Help the immigrants San Francisco.
...then what. support them for eternity? @@gottahavegoalsset
Also at 0:44 you see one of the major culprits for a lot of business closures- Cushman and Wakefield with their high leases! I mean if a bank can't or won't pay the lease you got problems!
It almost feels like an archeologist should be following in Metal Leo's footsteps, and carefully digging up the ruins of an ancient civilization with a tiny shovel. 😢
I thought the city had people doing just that. They call the little shovels poop scoops.
Memories of 2008, when up the road a bit from San Fran,
Vallejo declared bankruptcy.
They were paying firefighters, police, etc...$200K+
Wonder who, if anyone, is on the hook for the pensions is San Fran does the same.
I'm still on the floor laughing😂😂😂 . Leo arrives at the One banking Hall part of the galleria, Metal Leo: Unless you're banking on nothing. Window quote @ 4:48: You'll soon be listening to the birds, Metal Leo: Or crickets. Window quote: So Fresh, so green, Metal Leo: And so lonely
Always keeping good humor for tough times 🦗🦗🦗😁
The most eerie thing is that there are a few people milling about inside. Wonder what they are up to.
A lot of my family live in California around the San Francisco area. I would visit with my family every other year starting at age 8 until I was 20. I am now 56. I have so many great memories from visiting. I still have family that lives In the area and they talk about how horrible it is. They cannot even go to San Francisco during the day without the fear of becoming a victim of crime. I was last in California in 2021 and was amazed of how different the place feels.
Yes, it has changed a lot especially in the last four years
Do you have any information on what happened to the homeless Leo? I have been trying to find any type of video out there to show them taking them out. Could not find anything at all. I was told you might have some information on what really happened to them. Did they exterminate everyone? Even people who were just driving around they said where taken away.
Crocker Gelleria’s third floor and rooftop garden used to be absolutely packed during the 2-3 hours of lunchtime rush. So many great options and it was a great place to have a team or client lunch. A great place to meet people visiting from out of town. What a vanishing act.
Thanks for sharing!
Note , this area is prime retail shopping district pre pandemic. Destroyed in just 3 years due to crime n homeless n drug dealing in the neighborhood.
Could make a post apocalyptic zombie movie
🎥🎬🍿🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟😁
Would be interesting if you could investigate and report on all of the new violent crime in the Lamorinda area. People being held up at gunpoint, store robberies - all unheard of in the area. Not making mainstream news. Tried to leave local news outlet info on last comment but was deleted. Thanks. Enjoying your videos.
Mainstream media, sorry, is useless.
Otherwise, they would report that the children of Dem voting unwed mothers are source one of criminal shootings,
that Blacks commit hate crimes 390% more than Whites, Hispanics (my background) join gangs 1000% more than non-Hispanic Whites,
etc.
Validated annually by the DOJ.
Born and raised in SF. Remember when this was a vibrant busy mall. It's a unique space. Such a shame how SF is now .
Great on the ground reporting from SF. Leo shows us whats going on in the bay area without us having to be there. This is what UA-cam is for.
Thank you for the support!!!
Our downtown retail situation in the local RED politically aligned city (Coerdealene Idaho), the downtown vendors, mall and restaurants are extremely busy and doing well. No property vacancies. This death spiral like SF and LA have is all about welfare politics creating a nonfunctional society.
@@thedailymakermaking Correct. That is why San Francisco is known as a red city politically.
@@SA-hz1rs Your city should look like Dubai with all that wealth, all lit up like something from the future. Not a city in a financial death spiral being taken over by drug addicted homeless.
Where is all the wealth going? Definitely not the city infrastructure or to help the homeless. Pays for needles, Fentanyl and corrupt politics.
@@SA-hz1rs You are such a wonderful person to talk with. Have a great day.
@@gavincurtis Respectfully, it’s much more complex than can be covered here, but welfare is in no way the culprit in San Francisco as there is very little offered here. I have just left my hometown after almost 50 years and the unprecedented levels of greed the high tech boom brought with it genuinely ruined many lives and businesses. As some people got rich using the Bay Areas talent pool and legal structure, they simultaneously became far less in touch with how communities work, including the importance of tax dollars at work, paying livable wages and ensuring affordable housing so that your housekeeper/retail worker/secretary/service staff/restaurant worker isn’t homeless or forced to move away. I have both Republican and Democratic friends and family in the Bay Area, all of whom are suffering the effects of the current decline, and no one I know denies that prior to 2017 the political interests of both parties coexisted pretty well here for many decades until big name tech Republicans decided no rules should apply to them. Please know it’s incredibly painful for locals, and also definitely not an apples for apples comparison to life in Idaho.
@@SA-hz1rs And by "business" you mean carjackings and organized looting?
Great video. Crocker Galleria has been on a slow death for 20+ years. Fashionable boutiques closed eons ago. Just a few restaurants and small M/P shops remained. Crocker would have been a great place to experiment with mixed housing/business/doctor's offices use. It might be too expensive to renovate or lease.
It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I "Don't" Feel Fine)
I just came from Westfield Mall in Rockville MD and almost every store was open, those that weren't had coming soon signs and the mall was packed full of people. SF is what happens after destroying small business with asinine unnecessary lockdowns and a soft on crime government. So glad I left in 2018..
I went there for lunch regularly from 1997 to 2001. The mall model is not sustainable in a fearful and anti-social culture. It is beautiful in there on a sunny day!
Watching in disbelive... All the best from Toronto
Thank you
Textbook example of how to destroy a once cool and beautiful city. Visited for a business thing decades ago with my husband. I was 6 months pregnant, but felt safe and comfortable walking around on my own, visiting many tourist sites. We even got to go to Alcatraz. I wouldn't even consider doing that now. Nothing to see here.........safely. Tragic, really.
Great work! Your videos are like watching a creepy real life Backrooms game.
Thank you for the support. That was the vibe in there.
In the 2000's they use to have a Farmer's market here every Wednesday
Really I can see that ,there’s a lot of room for a farmers market
I remember the farmer's market in Civic Center back in the 90s. I left SF many years ago so don't know, but I can't imagine that's happening anymore, too dangerous.
It was still operating until the coof
Omg is that CREEPY AF… I remember that place packed 😮
it's surreal
Dawn of the Dead part 2 The Crocker Galleria .🧟♀️🧟🧟♂️
It felt like a movie especially with those escalators still running with nobody around 🧟♂️
Keep voting left, and we'll have nothing left.
LEO Thanks. SAD. I was there last 2017 and it wasn't like that at all. Goodness. Everyone leave SF altogether. Jk.
There isn't a light at the end of the tunnel. For that to occur the voters would have to admit they made baaaaaaad mistakes and make serious corrections.
They're not ready for it any time soon.
They are brainwashed. Being a liberal these days is akin to being a Scientologist - they only believe their overlords, not reality.
😪
It's easier to fool someone than to convince them that they've been fooled.
I was born and raised right over the Alta Monte in Modesto California. I left California at the end of 2021. I moved to the Midwest and I love it. I was so sick of what happened to our beautiful state of California. San Francisco was described as the Paris of the United States. It's sad to know that the leaders perfer homelessness, drugs and crime over decent members of society, no wonder why the people have left. Who know mabe by design or their agenda. So my good man what keeps you there?
I’m a Bay Area Native - lived there for 40 years. I saw this coming, left the state in 2016 and so happy I did.
I left the Bay Area in Sep 2021 after 10 years in SF, almost 10 in Oakland and another 8 in El Cerrito/Richmond area. The place became very dark and heavy for me and my husband. There are layers of despair and destruction happening. Slow-motion apocalypse.
I have heard Paris compared to Detroit
My family lived in San Francisco for 5 generations. I was the first to leave in 2004 for Phoenix (another story). Everyone I knew thought I was insane to leave the center of the universe. Now everyone in my family and all my friends from back then have fled. I now know no one left in San Francisco, even though my family had extensive networks of family and friends there. All fled out of state, by the way.
@@WN_ByersNot even close. Paris is a cultural and architectural gem.
Keep em coming Leo love your videos. They should turn that mall into housing or something because its done.
Agree anything is better than leaving it empty
They can turn it into a mental asylum...
Reminds me of the seventies when I was in grade school and jr hi. Seventies inflation had the city looking pretty much like that ,then. And those newer places didn’t exist so it’s not worse,just the same. It’s probably why a lot of single moms like mine moved there then because everything was cheaper because everything was closed and business was really bad. Only tourism was all there was,along with some manufacturing. It brings back memories and I saw how the city came alive in the eighties and nineties and now it’s like the seventies again. That’s a observation from someone who has been through it all.
Hello Metal, another shopping center closing?😮😢
And also, the APEC Is to S.F. coming on November 11 -18. I wonder how they’re going to fix up the city before the higher-ups come from Asia.😮
I heard they’re cleaning market Street, just putting the dirt under the rug for an esthetic appearance
I was a computer programmer and lived in Silicon Valley. It was obvious that ot was extremely vulnerable to over leveraging and before the economy was weakened by the lockdown, chips could not shrink much further.
I think the reason for the early lunch hours is so they avoid kids causing trouble. Everyone else said, we're done. It's a really nice building too. We cannot allow this to happen any further. Ridiculous.
Yeah, those "teens" always causing trouble.
One morning going up the escalator around 1993 i turned around and David Bowie and Iman were a few yards behind me! About passed the F out. Wish i would have asked for an autograph but i didn’t want to bother them.
I met Leonard Nimoy at the Galleria. It was absurd. There was a fine china shop and I liked going there at noon to look at the stuff I could not legitimize owning. He came in one time and assumed I worked there! Because I went there so often, I showed him the merchandise. Then when he wanted to buy something, I said "You need to talk to someone who works here!" He gave me this look like "OMG. I got a crazy person here". Very embarrassing but I was just trying to be helpful.
@@willchristie2650 what year was that? Was he cordial and nice to talk to? I helped Alan Alda once while working at Saks Fifth Avenue in the 90s! Conversation was mostly on clothes and gifts for his son in law I think. But he was totally nice and kind.
Hey ML ,you do a good job bringing reality,these vids remind me of a song called choctaw bingo...2 versions one James Mc Mcurtry and other Ray Wiley hubbard,both great,Have you heard them? Keep the vids coming.
I haven’t heard that song i’ll look it up , but thank you for the support!
Gee, I wonder why all the stores, restaurants, businesses, etcetera, have been scared off? It's not like this in other countries. Interesting.
San Francisco has fallen so far…
Ghost town. Land of dead dreams.
There used to be Pizelle’s pizza, Sushi- Burrito & a Bath & Body Shop or Body Shop. Also there was a candy/ chocolate store!
It looks like San Francisco is well on it's way to becomming a mega city ghost town.
looks like the people have spoken
Dont u just love what high crime rate can do to a city. smh =/
Gosh I used to love going there to shop and eat.
The place is absolutely beautiful and impeccably maintained,,, how in the hell do they keep the lights on? How is it even open,, I don't understand...
"Or crickets" lol
I agree the place looks spotless. What a waste ,only crickets remain lol 🦗🦗😁
Tax write off.
Yeah,, it's gotta be something like that..@@joedirt7553
Use LEDs?
@@joedirt7553 If you don't make any money, you don't have to pay any taxes!!
Seeing such a beautiful building empty is depressing. At least the owners are keeping the building clean and neat. Mall doors are open and the escalators are working because that is a city regulation. Such regulations require buildings which have roof top "public spaces" to remain open during "business hours" even if there is no business.
I wonder how hard the owners worked to bring shoppers and businesses back to the facility before total failure or did they just give up. As long as they must keep the mall open, right now they certainly could open opportunities for high schools and local colleges to provide entertainment for the coming holidays, and at the same time give low-cost rents for holiday-themed businesses to sell their wares on the first floor. How about offering wedding and other event facilities, too? To allow the building to continue in the same manner as it is presently is ridiculous.
Who in their right mind would want a wedding in a closed shopping mall in downtown SF?
Leo again you are showing the true story of the decline in our country keep up the good work people need to wake up nefore it slips into free fall.
It’s in free fall but this administration will not admit that and more troubling is going for reelection
@@maxpol007 Meanwhile, the stock market just hit a new high. I think it depends where you get your news from.
As a landlord, this is bad. Probably can't even sell the property if the landlord wanted to. Who will want to buy it?
I notice a nearby bathhouse is still open and thriving.
Sutter's Mill is long gone, right? I used to go there after work or for lunch with my handsome young male friends....long ago.
Love seeing your videos and knowing I made the right decision to leave SF and move to a red state that is run properly. If I walk around downtown in my new home, I can do it without looking over my back, wondering if I’m going to get beaten or robbed, and all of the stores and restaurants are busy and full. There are no empty store fronts, no graffiti and best of all no shit and urine covering the sidewalks.
There is a red state that is being run properly? Where you don't get gunned down going to school?
@@JB-yb4wn Brainwashed. The people in red states aren't the ones shooting each other every weekend. That is the people in the democratic run cities. People in red states use their guns to hunt deer, skeet shoot, and protect themselves from the government.
@@JB-yb4wn California has had more mass shootings than any red state.
Now, stop listening to that dude Rachel Maddow and focus on reality.
3 BIG BLACK CHAIRS ON RIGHT A SHINE AND CO. SHOESHINE VOTED BEST IN WORLD BY VANITY FAIR 2012 OPEN 1996 WORKED THERE 15 YEARS STILL HANGING ON AT 555 CAL AND EMB 1 COME ON BY WE MISS YALL
San Francisco is like a bowl of Granola. Take out all the Fruits and Nuts and all you have left is Flakes 😂
I used to work across the street from the Galleria. Impressively empty
The streets outside were empty, too
McKesson hq was right across the street for decades - One Post ST. They Wisely bailed out 7 years ago and never looked back. That was a happening place at lunch time the few times I went there on bidness trips.
I keep hearing the whistle from the movie "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" as you saunter through that retail ghost town. 😅😢 thanks for keeping it real Leo and stay alert.
Exactly that whistle! another thing I noticed after watching the video a few times is that sound from the escalators it’s now stuck in my head.
@@LeoMetalTraveler I'd love to hear you whistle a few bars of that song in your videos! Thanks for your reporting.
You got it 🎶🎵
Birds.. crickets as you mentioned... soon I'll be ducks, squirrels,.. maybe even mountain lions. Lol ❤
Wildlife claiming back the Earth lol 🫎🐗🦬🐃🐍🦍🦌🦇🦜🦓🦏🦧
Hey Metal Leo? What about the Newark Mall? Pre-Covid it was not much & I can only imagine now! Please do a walk thru of that mall ! It’s in the Bay Area but it must be empty too
I’m going to definitely look into it. Thank you for the tip.
Hi Leo, thank you it definitely is shocking. Used to work on Pine St. in SF and live in the Tenderloin. Even then it was the drugs that are causing most of the problems, homelessness and filth. Cmon Gavin we pay the highest taxes in CA where's all that money going??? Millions and millions to homelessness, the problem is worse than ever. And those little shacks they proposed could have literally been donated for free. It is a huge scandal. What a joke...
Thanks for the video memories. It’s really a shame about the Galleria. I used to go there during lunch hour in the early 2000s. There was a big variety of restaurants so you could sample lots of different cuisines. Now it’s a shell of what it used to be. At least there’s Julie’s Kitchen open, which used to be way closer to the Embarcadero on Fremont St. Julie’s has the best salad bar/hot food but it is pricey.
The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
Damn EVERY STORE??? My favorite restaurant back in the day was 360 gourmet burrito. I use to get fish and shrimp burritos that was delicious 😋
I was in the wine shop in that mall during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake! I used to work in the office building that’s a part of that mall.
Really ! It must’ve been scary to be there for the earthquake. Obviously you survived, it must have been a whole different world in the mall back then Thank you for sharing!
@@LeoMetalTraveler There was a wine shop that was entered from Sutter Street to the left of the mall entrance. It was called Johnny Walker if I remember correctly. It was scary as hell!
You didn’t mention the office tower that anchors the mall. It was called the Crocker tower or building or whatever. That was named after Crocker Bank which is no longer in business. The name changed to the Telesis Tower. Another company no longer in business.
Charles Schwab, where I worked at the time, used to be headquartered in SF. They were in several office buildings in the 1990s, with their headquarters at 101 Montgomery. True story: Chuck Schwab had his personal office on the top of the Telesis Tower. There’s an underground parking lot there where Chuck Schwab could take an elevator directly up to his office. Security was tight.
Thank you Leo for your great video of a once wonderful city to visit. It has got to be a little scary walking through those empty halls and floors. Not exactly the warm and inviting atmosphere clients and customers desire. RIP San Francisco
Why bother having these 2 opened?!?! Just close it..... It's not as if there's people around?!?! It's just you!!😅 Thank you for showing ur viewers how downtown's becoming EXTINCTED!!
Right?!
This Crocker Galleria is gorgeous! I have to give a shout out to the maintenance staff who are keeping the mall in impeccable condition. What is happening in 2026 in this area please? I'm intrigued by this beautiful mall. Thank you for sharing, Leo. ❤
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Google Maps photos show every store open on all 3 levels just 4 years ago. Beautiful building. Not sure what they expected to get out of a renovation. You can't go higher than 100% occupancy 🤷 Thank the city health director for a year and a half of shelter in place orders and 5 months of jab requirements for dining establishments. I'm sure that helped 🤦
Look at the bright side: Failed city San Fransicko's Crocker Galleria has more peace and quiet now that it's mostly vacant.
If I had to pay off a lease, I’d live in the back of the store!
There's a mixture of problems going on right now and there's no easy fix. 1) Greedy landlords who don't want to drop the rent because they can use the non-rented space as a write off. 2) High property taxes 3) Shop lifting is seen as a low priority; see the riots with mass looting and no police interference a few years ago 4) People are generally lazy and prefer to shop online rather than go out. 5) Parking is expensive 6) They went soft on car burglaries: when your window gets smashed every couple of months you should be crazy to keep going back. 7) Shopping malls are generally devoid of soul unlike normal city centers filled with mom & pop shops (the loss of mom & pop shops is a worry-some trend not just in SF but all over the US by the way).