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.
    abc7ne.ws/3KTpdZJ
    #unionsquare #business #shopping #sanfrancisco #abc #abc7news

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  • @AshleyKeith-vw7ws
    @AshleyKeith-vw7ws 2 місяці тому +121

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      @MelissaHobbs-qm8wi 2 місяці тому +4

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      @BrianAlbert-hh3pi 2 місяці тому +2

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      @BrianAlbert-hh3pi 2 місяці тому +2

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      @JessicaKeith-uj1jq 2 місяці тому +1

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  • @moon3173
    @moon3173 2 місяці тому +34

    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

    • @SecretMountainTroll
      @SecretMountainTroll 2 місяці тому +1

      Lol that would be an expensive shelter

    • @mrswolls
      @mrswolls Місяць тому +3

      can we also fence off the east bay?

    • @RajDeelish
      @RajDeelish Місяць тому +1

      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.

    • @hellobot67
      @hellobot67 Місяць тому +1

      number 3 is very hard to do. You'd have to make it illegal to be homeless

    • @richk3135
      @richk3135 Місяць тому

      @@RajDeelish Not a jail. Repurposed as housing with amazing views. Lights out at 8.

  • @richk3135
    @richk3135 Місяць тому +9

    Reporter says "London is thriving, New York is back!". Obvious she hasn't seen either.

  • @albertdesalvo7697
    @albertdesalvo7697 2 місяці тому +21

    Recovery really 😂😂😂😂?

  • @Arzalons
    @Arzalons Місяць тому +8

    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

    • @Arzalons
      @Arzalons Місяць тому +1

      That lady straight up blamed the press… like you are out of your mind delusional wtf

  • @hwyfools
    @hwyfools Місяць тому +10

    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.

    • @randyscott3386
      @randyscott3386 Місяць тому

      The place was subverted by the communist decades ago .

  • @StephenDavis-vh4oc
    @StephenDavis-vh4oc 2 місяці тому +17

    What would happen if a city with lots of people and homeless people but did not provide toilets for them, hmmm?

  • @Ali-uf5du
    @Ali-uf5du 2 місяці тому +30

    Don't buy the BS. Its a mess.

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 2 місяці тому

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 2 місяці тому

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 2 місяці тому

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 2 місяці тому

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 2 місяці тому

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

  • @JOHN_F_KENNEDY_DADDY
    @JOHN_F_KENNEDY_DADDY 2 місяці тому +19

    Criminals will still do flash mobs

  • @Brian-sh4sm
    @Brian-sh4sm 2 місяці тому +35

    Get the black crime out of there and fire the mayor!😊

    • @celebrityrog
      @celebrityrog 2 місяці тому

      And the hand selected DA who won’t prosecute black crime. Racist? Yea. They won’t prosecute their own.

  • @JC-rc3pr
    @JC-rc3pr Місяць тому +17

    We need a new mayor!!!

  • @zicobond9942
    @zicobond9942 Місяць тому +20

    this lady is a professional liar

    • @kenjones6046
      @kenjones6046 Місяць тому

      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.

    • @kenjones6046
      @kenjones6046 Місяць тому +1

      She is a liar

    • @theepicfailgamer6317
      @theepicfailgamer6317 Місяць тому +1

      kazuka Morgan😂😂😂

    • @LineageSys
      @LineageSys Місяць тому

      These realtors will sell their own children for money.

  • @user-kl4wz2bc3l
    @user-kl4wz2bc3l Місяць тому +9

    Great news for homeless people, and the criminals.

  • @misterkiller89
    @misterkiller89 2 місяці тому +10

    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.

    • @mfsoli
      @mfsoli Місяць тому

      and low intelligence!

    • @TheYouthquaker
      @TheYouthquaker Місяць тому

      We don’t have an active nightlife anymore.

  • @RajDeelish
    @RajDeelish Місяць тому +4

    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.

  • @jasonsmith1143
    @jasonsmith1143 2 місяці тому +14

    Westfield Valley Fair in Santa Clara is our go to shopping spot and we lived in the Eastbay.

    • @brosephbroman7564
      @brosephbroman7564 2 місяці тому +3

      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.

    • @SuperJK-Man
      @SuperJK-Man 2 місяці тому +1

      🤫

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng 2 місяці тому +4

      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.

    • @celebrityrog
      @celebrityrog 2 місяці тому +2

      For me it’s the Roseville Galleria up past Sacramento

  • @bellabella9181
    @bellabella9181 Місяць тому +3

    Ermmm, not one person mentioned the ASTRONOMICAL rents on those retail spaces. GREED is the destroyer.

  • @RK-xv1si
    @RK-xv1si 2 місяці тому +5

    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.

  • @BennyRuff
    @BennyRuff Місяць тому +4

    It wasn't the pandemic; it was Prop 47. Don't criminalize store theft; stores leave.

  • @jasonleman1396
    @jasonleman1396 2 місяці тому +10

    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?)

  • @geniusatwrok
    @geniusatwrok Місяць тому +1

    "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?

  • @paulreynolds2569
    @paulreynolds2569 2 місяці тому +4

    "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.

    • @CalvinMorris-cf8jk
      @CalvinMorris-cf8jk Місяць тому +3

      same thing with Cuba

    • @mfsoli
      @mfsoli Місяць тому +1

      Yes, the mega rich neighborhoods!

    • @RajDeelish
      @RajDeelish Місяць тому

      @@CalvinMorris-cf8jk Show's how much you know. You tried to use Cuba as a crap example, but there are some great areas.

  • @Katsnacks
    @Katsnacks 2 місяці тому +16

    Not with these toilet streets, you won’t

    • @pwp8737
      @pwp8737 2 місяці тому +2

      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.

  • @eddieg6436
    @eddieg6436 2 місяці тому +12

    This Asian woman is full of it!!! Tourists won’t go there because of crime, filth, homelessness, drugs, graffiti, and boarded up stores!!

    • @stayfree870
      @stayfree870 2 місяці тому +1

      Sounds like PR.

    • @dereksue4877
      @dereksue4877 2 місяці тому +2

      That's pal more negativity so you can create problems for this city, I'm sure you're proud to contribute to it.

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 2 місяці тому

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @kenjones6046
      @kenjones6046 Місяць тому

      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

    • @RajDeelish
      @RajDeelish Місяць тому

      @@stayfree870 She doesn't work for the city.

  • @dane9175
    @dane9175 2 місяці тому +21

    BULL SHIT!! 😎

    • @stayfree870
      @stayfree870 2 місяці тому

      It's human 💩 that's the problem.

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 2 місяці тому

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

  • @mgtl9639
    @mgtl9639 2 місяці тому +3

    too much crime too much taxes cost are way to high. nothing to do because everything cool is gone

  • @chinftw
    @chinftw Місяць тому +2

    Why she lying

  • @San_Francisco_Downtown_Watcher
    @San_Francisco_Downtown_Watcher Місяць тому +1

    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

  • @kennethcava4488
    @kennethcava4488 Місяць тому +1

    New stores? The shoplifters are salivating already!

  • @MrYfrank14
    @MrYfrank14 2 місяці тому +10

    Must be an election year.
    December we hear about the shoplifting and the criminals not being prosecuted and the businesses leaving again.

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng 2 місяці тому

      Every year is an election year.

    • @MrYfrank14
      @MrYfrank14 2 місяці тому

      @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.

  • @LittleNezha126
    @LittleNezha126 Місяць тому +1

    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

  • @LostChildOfTime
    @LostChildOfTime 2 місяці тому +4

    Whatever happens San Francisco, don't let the negative people in the comments ruin your progress.

    • @garycallihan4206
      @garycallihan4206 2 місяці тому

      There will be no progress, only regression, decay, turmoil, dissolution, degradation, and eventual collapse of societal norms. Try not to be ignorant.

    • @russelltate1394
      @russelltate1394 2 місяці тому +1

      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.

  • @madge2114
    @madge2114 2 місяці тому +2

    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.

    • @user-zu3md5qz8y
      @user-zu3md5qz8y Місяць тому

      move SF to Las Vegas- make San Francisco Hotel and Casino

  • @marioacevedo5077
    @marioacevedo5077 Місяць тому +1

    Let's check back in six months.

  • @saintapathy
    @saintapathy Місяць тому

    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.

  • @prokastinatore
    @prokastinatore 14 днів тому

    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.

  • @stevekwan8232
    @stevekwan8232 Місяць тому +3

    Nintendo ? Wow I am sure theives are waiting

    • @KingOcho-xr4dq
      @KingOcho-xr4dq Місяць тому

      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

  • @BrOoKLyNx
    @BrOoKLyNx Місяць тому +1

    Answer: NEW MAYOR

  • @Pironi28
    @Pironi28 25 днів тому

    London ain't Thriving ! I live here and its following SF's path under our Mayor Khan !

  • @boostedmaniac
    @boostedmaniac Місяць тому

    Bring back mayor Willie Brown.

  • @johnhofer7281
    @johnhofer7281 Місяць тому +2

    Look at Fisherman’s Wharf-Alioto’s All the Great Restaurant’s AreNowClosed!!

  • @youtubeLa2023
    @youtubeLa2023 Місяць тому

    this is the best comedy skit ever...hilarious......

  • @diggingmystyle
    @diggingmystyle Місяць тому

    No recovery will happen as long as Gruesome is in office.

  • @JC-rc3pr
    @JC-rc3pr Місяць тому +1

    The city is trash!!!!

  • @ILUVGOGI-ri2kd
    @ILUVGOGI-ri2kd Місяць тому

    Consider yourself lucky if you manage to avoid stepping in a zombie's shit.

  • @rolandfreasier1642
    @rolandfreasier1642 Місяць тому +1

    That’s all BS

  • @robbieross6646
    @robbieross6646 Місяць тому +1

    State Propaganda.

  • @KingOcho-xr4dq
    @KingOcho-xr4dq Місяць тому

    These people are gaslighting. SF is a hellhole 😂

  • @jimzischka1249
    @jimzischka1249 Місяць тому +1

    They're full of chit !!

  • @kuojeff3962
    @kuojeff3962 Місяць тому +1

    I don’t think so, it won’t make it

  • @mrcpaddler
    @mrcpaddler 16 днів тому

    Stop Blaming Democrats!

  • @A_Noid
    @A_Noid 25 днів тому

    Ah yes, independent unbiased analyst (also real estate agent…)

  • @pekkle007
    @pekkle007 Місяць тому

    Uh, what about all the shoplifting? Is Cushman & Wakefield gonna stop that?

  • @gnaflethegarthok3074
    @gnaflethegarthok3074 2 місяці тому +4

    Delusional

  • @ivonneguerinoni3881
    @ivonneguerinoni3881 Місяць тому

    In the middle of the homeless and criminals?

  • @bethanyhealy4989
    @bethanyhealy4989 Місяць тому

    I went there for business a couple of months ago and it was a mess.

  • @josephchan4198
    @josephchan4198 Місяць тому +1

    I seen more tourist in the cable care museum and other activity. Good start. Let see what happens next few months.

  • @rogerngu830
    @rogerngu830 Місяць тому

    Stop lying, the city is dying

  • @jz94117
    @jz94117 2 місяці тому +1

    Another of an endless series of San Francisco business subsidies.

    • @jz94117
      @jz94117 2 місяці тому

      Come and ride our subsidized cable cars

  • @bethanyhealy4989
    @bethanyhealy4989 Місяць тому

    Conventions>???? I hear they are all going to Las Vegas

  • @stevekwan8232
    @stevekwan8232 Місяць тому

    Do what los Angeles is doing, put homeless in union square vacant spaces

  • @Jojo-oj1uz
    @Jojo-oj1uz Місяць тому

    Dollar stores move in?

  • @brosephbroman7564
    @brosephbroman7564 2 місяці тому +5

    SF is a lost cause, it's past the point of no return. It's only recovery will come after it completely collapses.

    • @LostChildOfTime
      @LostChildOfTime 2 місяці тому +1

      Based on the GDP... doubt it.

    • @dereksue4877
      @dereksue4877 2 місяці тому +1

      Lol you seem to have a very personal hatred towards sf and not see it recover. Wonder why?

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 2 місяці тому

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 2 місяці тому

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 2 місяці тому

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

  • @Dwn2Race
    @Dwn2Race 2 місяці тому +3

    ALL Lies…

  • @ypl236
    @ypl236 Місяць тому

    lol, typical realtor response

  • @whatamess2358
    @whatamess2358 Місяць тому +1

    Bahhahah

  • @JamesMaynardMoreland
    @JamesMaynardMoreland 2 місяці тому +3

    I take dull credit
    It would have happend sooner
    But i was groggy

  • @RobustArid379
    @RobustArid379 Місяць тому

    Fake advertising

  • @user-zu3md5qz8y
    @user-zu3md5qz8y Місяць тому

    welcome to Biden Bay Cities

  • @contetomeck2106
    @contetomeck2106 27 днів тому

    LOL LOL LOL dream on LOL

  • @danielwoodruff5031
    @danielwoodruff5031 Місяць тому

    Recovery 🤣

  • @garycallihan4206
    @garycallihan4206 2 місяці тому +1

    There will be no recovery. That's all.

  • @MT-xf3eb
    @MT-xf3eb Місяць тому

    Sf is dead

  • @NikkiRowCoxx
    @NikkiRowCoxx Місяць тому

    False Hope.

  • @dazzz887
    @dazzz887 Місяць тому

    No its not stop lying….😂

  • @mamasan7902
    @mamasan7902 2 місяці тому +2

    Recovery? Don’t make me laugh!

  • @thatwastakenagain
    @thatwastakenagain 2 місяці тому

    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

  • @CalvinMorris-cf8jk
    @CalvinMorris-cf8jk Місяць тому +1

    hire the mayor of Oakland to run things. look at how wonderful Oakland is looking.

    • @RajDeelish
      @RajDeelish Місяць тому +1

      She has a bigger problem that can't be solved in 6 months.

  • @tototita413
    @tototita413 2 місяці тому +1

    no one will come back or rent are 1/2 price !!!!!!!!!! LOL LIES LIES

  • @leunam3434
    @leunam3434 2 місяці тому

    Thanks to the genius of mayor London Breed, Union Square is as good as it was pre pandemic era in a few months.

    • @davidjackson7281
      @davidjackson7281 2 місяці тому +4

      Soon to be ex-mayor.

    • @Thejimbodowntown
      @Thejimbodowntown 2 місяці тому +4

      This is a joke right?

    • @kenjones6046
      @kenjones6046 2 місяці тому

      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

    • @brosephbroman7564
      @brosephbroman7564 2 місяці тому +2

      How much are they paying you?

    • @sfdanceron1
      @sfdanceron1 2 місяці тому

      @@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.

  • @jackjones5725
    @jackjones5725 Місяць тому

    Not as long as you have Democrats

  • @user-ic2kk5vf4o
    @user-ic2kk5vf4o 2 місяці тому

    City Hall as a toursist destination on the weekends ; has it's advantage s:
    1. Place for Future Marriage's *
    2. New Permits for Business *
    *🌉S. F.🌉 Tour Guide's most
    definite 🛑