SF Union Square on path to economic recovery: Here are the signs and roadblocks
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- For generations, San Francisco's Union Square was the retail epicenter of the Bay Area.
The pandemic, changes in shopping habits and work-from-home left a huge number of storefronts empty. But there are now signs the area is on the road to recovery.
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here is what we need (1) remove BREED from the office (2) elect someone competent and can actually do the mayor job to clean up SF (3) remove homeless from SF, turn alcatraz into a shelter, place homeless there (4) maintain police presence in downtown
Lol that would be an expensive shelter
can we also fence off the east bay?
All sounds good but #3, which is ridiculous. First, your proposal would sound like you are saying we should jail homeless. If you want to send them to a shelter don't send them to a prison area. For example, send them to some open area outside Fresno. Second, homeless who do go are not going to stay.
number 3 is very hard to do. You'd have to make it illegal to be homeless
@@RajDeelish Not a jail. Repurposed as housing with amazing views. Lights out at 8.
Reporter says "London is thriving, New York is back!". Obvious she hasn't seen either.
Recovery really 😂😂😂😂?
The reason union square turned into a ghost town is because wages are low, housing prices are through the roof, and layoffs are happening in TECH and slowly going into other industries. Tourists are sick of seeing the homeless everywhere and there is human remains ALLLLL over the city now. Being from SF in my opinion fixing the economy does not start with reopening these stores, there’s a why everyone fled… fix the housing and workforce side of the economy FIRST
That lady straight up blamed the press… like you are out of your mind delusional wtf
What is everybody talking about. Fentanyl & meth use on the streets without legal consequences. Shoplifting rampant without consequences. Why would you do business in a city with a blind eye to crime? You get what you vote for.
The place was subverted by the communist decades ago .
What would happen if a city with lots of people and homeless people but did not provide toilets for them, hmmm?
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Shit in the park.
Don't buy the BS. Its a mess.
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Criminals will still do flash mobs
Get the black crime out of there and fire the mayor!😊
And the hand selected DA who won’t prosecute black crime. Racist? Yea. They won’t prosecute their own.
We need a new mayor!!!
this lady is a professional liar
She is a liar because she keeps the old talking point and blame remote work but never talk about real issue such as rampant theft, open air drugs, mentally unstable homeless roaming in downtown. These are the issues people are talking about. She has lied on TV before because her job is to fill
Vacancy and avoid my negative coverage. Chanel 7 should have pick a better guest to interview than this real estate agent crook.
She is a liar
kazuka Morgan😂😂😂
These realtors will sell their own children for money.
Great news for homeless people, and the criminals.
If SF had a personality outside of tech money, hippie burn outs, crime, homelessness, an active nightlife and more affordable housing options - then it'd probably be as good as NYC, LA, London, etc. These cities have their flaws, but SF has an identity crisis.
and low intelligence!
We don’t have an active nightlife anymore.
Blasphemy! You have an entire new segment on how to improve downtown and not once do you mention we have to get rid of the people that allowed us to get to this down point??? People needs to be fired for letting this all happen, like years ago.
Westfield Valley Fair in Santa Clara is our go to shopping spot and we lived in the Eastbay.
Yeah. It's a lot nicer, easier to get to, less traffic, less zombie addicts, and cheaper. But we'll see how long that lasts. All the 🗑 in SF is trickling down here.
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If you live in Fremont or Union CIty in the East Bay, Santa Clara is definitely closer than San Francisco and you don't have to go through bridge traffic.
For me it’s the Roseville Galleria up past Sacramento
Ermmm, not one person mentioned the ASTRONOMICAL rents on those retail spaces. GREED is the destroyer.
This will not change San Francisco we knew before, What are they going to do with crime? The crime is still happening. People selling stolen merchandise at 7th and market 16th , 24th of mission? I can not carry my good purse criminal will snatch it. Sad.
It wasn't the pandemic; it was Prop 47. Don't criminalize store theft; stores leave.
Macy's? Really? Why not ask about the half of macys that is closed and still empty (Or most places on stockton between geary and market st?)
"However the pandemic, changes in shopping habits, and work from home left a huge number of storefronts empty."
Hello, what about CRIME???
When you start it off like this, you know the entire thing is going to be gaslighting.
And how about asking some more interesting questions? WHY are businesses choosing to come back? Has the city taken any actions to incentivize this? What business in their right mind would subject themselves to the constant break-ins, while paying taxes to prop up the corrupt SF system?
"San Francisco is great". It DEPENDS on WHERE you visit and, sometimes, at what hour. Many parts of SF ARE still great places to visit, just not all.
same thing with Cuba
Yes, the mega rich neighborhoods!
@@CalvinMorris-cf8jk Show's how much you know. You tried to use Cuba as a crap example, but there are some great areas.
Not with these toilet streets, you won’t
yeah because NYC or LA's streets are so clean. Definitely the city, and state need to make some changes to deal with the homeless and drugs, but overall San Francisco is a beautiful city and safer than most in America.
This Asian woman is full of it!!! Tourists won’t go there because of crime, filth, homelessness, drugs, graffiti, and boarded up stores!!
Sounds like PR.
That's pal more negativity so you can create problems for this city, I'm sure you're proud to contribute to it.
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She is a real estate agent of course she is a liar and crook. Unless they solve homeless and open air drug problems in SF, business will not come back. What business want to stay in SF if this government is not protecting their safety when you have a homeless come in and steal and police do not show up? None. This real estate agent is doing her PR bullshit and want media to broadcast her message. I guarantee she does not even live in Downtown San Francisco
@@stayfree870 She doesn't work for the city.
BULL SHIT!! 😎
It's human 💩 that's the problem.
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too much crime too much taxes cost are way to high. nothing to do because everything cool is gone
Why she lying
The answer is no way. I live in SF, but need to go to Daly city for my shopping because SF is not safe, and no shops to go
Daly city is great
New stores? The shoplifters are salivating already!
Must be an election year.
December we hear about the shoplifting and the criminals not being prosecuted and the businesses leaving again.
Every year is an election year.
@RaymondHng - by election year, I mean a year the Democrats are afraid of not getting reelected. President and Congress is not every year. They need votes from across the country for President and congress.
This place is a ghost town. I was around here all day. It’s so hard to shop post pandemic… everything is closed., sooo many mentally unstable cray people
Whatever happens San Francisco, don't let the negative people in the comments ruin your progress.
There will be no progress, only regression, decay, turmoil, dissolution, degradation, and eventual collapse of societal norms. Try not to be ignorant.
Even though lots of comments are negative. The comments are True regardless of what you think. WAKE UP to the reality of the way it is not the way you would like it to be. San Francisco
as of today is still a Sh*thole.
Yeah, it was a thinly veiled commercial. That said, SF is still a beautiful place to live, work, and play. Nicer in ways because now it's not as crowded with childish, bigoted, demanding tourists or a mayor who tells citizens to keep smiling and pleasing because they're just part of the scenery.
The park on the Transbay Terminal is worth multiple visits. Park Presidio, Fort Funston, Yerba Buena, McKinley Park, on and on... It's all still there in all its glory. Reputation changes with political tides.
Imagine what it was like during the barbaric Barbary Coast days. This is Disneyland in comparison. Heck, you want D'land, go to D'land. SF is a city, not a theme park.
move SF to Las Vegas- make San Francisco Hotel and Casino
Let's check back in six months.
Ain't nobody gonna convert commercial spaces into residential housing. The cost of conversion is too high and I'm sure the permitting process is obscene.
Thank you homeless shoplifters to make SF unsafe and thank you for destroying business. Thank you London Breed for prioritizing the rights of homeless shoplifters over those who are going to work and who are paying their bills while purchasing.
Nintendo ? Wow I am sure theives are waiting
I have no idea why Nintendo would ever open up shop there knowing that a lot of businesses left already. Poor decision on their part
Answer: NEW MAYOR
London ain't Thriving ! I live here and its following SF's path under our Mayor Khan !
Bring back mayor Willie Brown.
Look at Fisherman’s Wharf-Alioto’s All the Great Restaurant’s AreNowClosed!!
gone now, Metal leo says so
this is the best comedy skit ever...hilarious......
No recovery will happen as long as Gruesome is in office.
The city is trash!!!!
Consider yourself lucky if you manage to avoid stepping in a zombie's shit.
That’s all BS
State Propaganda.
These people are gaslighting. SF is a hellhole 😂
They're full of chit !!
I don’t think so, it won’t make it
Stop Blaming Democrats!
Ah yes, independent unbiased analyst (also real estate agent…)
Uh, what about all the shoplifting? Is Cushman & Wakefield gonna stop that?
Delusional
In the middle of the homeless and criminals?
I went there for business a couple of months ago and it was a mess.
I seen more tourist in the cable care museum and other activity. Good start. Let see what happens next few months.
Stop lying, the city is dying
Another of an endless series of San Francisco business subsidies.
Come and ride our subsidized cable cars
Conventions>???? I hear they are all going to Las Vegas
Do what los Angeles is doing, put homeless in union square vacant spaces
Dollar stores move in?
SF is a lost cause, it's past the point of no return. It's only recovery will come after it completely collapses.
Based on the GDP... doubt it.
Lol you seem to have a very personal hatred towards sf and not see it recover. Wonder why?
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ALL Lies…
lol, typical realtor response
Bahhahah
I take dull credit
It would have happend sooner
But i was groggy
Fake advertising
welcome to Biden Bay Cities
LOL LOL LOL dream on LOL
Recovery 🤣
There will be no recovery. That's all.
Sf is dead
False Hope.
No its not stop lying….😂
Recovery? Don’t make me laugh!
sf is boring and that can be good cos pollution and crazy people are def part of a city i don't want to see
hire the mayor of Oakland to run things. look at how wonderful Oakland is looking.
She has a bigger problem that can't be solved in 6 months.
no one will come back or rent are 1/2 price !!!!!!!!!! LOL LIES LIES
Thanks to the genius of mayor London Breed, Union Square is as good as it was pre pandemic era in a few months.
Soon to be ex-mayor.
This is a joke right?
Major suck up to London Breed will not get her re-elected in Nov. just look at section between 6th and 7th street on Market corridor . Still large amount of drug users getting high night and day. Mental unstable transients roaming around downtown around the clock. There is no way tourists are not going to notice. With hybrid work continue, downtown will no t recover even they keep convert office space to residential apartments. This city need to get rid of these drug dealers and users first before start to talk about recovery plan
How much are they paying you?
@@davidjackson7281 Doesn't matter who you demorats replace her with, it will still be business as usual. You demorats are on a death spiral. Everything you touch turns to shxt. Everything.
Not as long as you have Democrats
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