Downtown San Francisco exodus continues
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Movie theater chain Cinemark confirmed Wednesday it is closing its Century Theatres multiplex at Westfield shopping center in downtown San Francisco, citing what it calls a “comprehensive review of local business conditions.” Sergio Quintana reports.
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Building inclusive communities where criminals and drug addicts are not only tolerated but celebrated. Way ahead of the rest of the world. Bravo!
Thank Ronald Reagan.
Exactly 👍
I have to laugh when I see Gavin Newsom talking about running for President. How deluded is he? His major cities are all burning around him and his policies.
@@lewstone5430 These problems seem to be specific to the state of California. 30% of the country's homeless population live in the state of California, while 43% of those on welfare / public assistance live there also.
I think they did it on purpose so the property prices will go down.
That first guy is an example of everything that is wrong with Cali. Blames everything but crime. Pandemics over sir, long time ago.
Yep. If it was due to pandemic, why is the San Jose mall doing so well?? Even the SF Chronicle recognizes the real reasons in their article "As Westfield gives up on S.F., here’s why its Silicon Valley mall is seeing record sales".
Would you blame BLM or illegals more?
He represents the majority of regular Joes who are ignorant and uninform and often casually read a bit of fake news. Cant blame them, theyre just going about their lives while the world changes around them.
Wouldn't doubt this Boomer had voted Biden
@@omarakthar8097the blame lies exclusively on those that voted for these marxist politicians that allowed all of this
Crime is "also" a factor? How about Crime is the driving force..... ?
They are avoiding the truth. They are more interested in their truth. 😂
San Francisco has legalized all crimes so there is no crime in San Francisco,
Liberals News - liberal lies.
Don't want to be cancelled, so you can't tell the truth anymore.
Customers got tired of coming back to her car is broken into
Customers got tired of being asked for money or harassed by drug users, are homeless out on the street
Customers got tired of walking over around feces and urine in the street
Customers got tired of seeing afraid of people who look like zombies who are strung out on fentanyl
Customers got tired of getting parking tickets trying to find parking downtown
Customers got tired of getting held up by gunpoint or having a friend or family member get held up by gunpoint at downtown and this stops. Many people from returning when a friend or a loved one has got physically threatened. I’m going downtown San Francisco. .
It’s become a giant Third World slum .
My family has lived here for five generations .
In the last decade, the majority of all moved away . Just last year, including myself.. probably next year my kids are moving away.
My family and myself have watched my city turn into one of the most disgusting cities in the nation in just a little over the last decade.
When you move, don’t bring your shitty voting habits with you…
Same here. My family arrived in San Francisco after the Gold Rush. A few distant cousins remain there and one friend. Everyone else left; myself included many years ago. Sad to see this.
I’ve never been to SF however I bet the rich priced the poor WAY too far out the city to maintain the economy.
Now the rich are so accustomed to dealing with only other rich people and are upset that poor people still exist despite the attempt to relocate them out of eyesight.
These old rich people are now too old to physically protect themselves so they are now moving somewhere where they can hire a police force that can both commute to work in a reasonable fashion and live reasonably close to said location so that they feel connected to the city they are “protecting”.
Those homeless and drugs users were there the WHOLE TIME. Probably just a few miles over. Moral of the story a capitalist economy cannot exist without poor people. Deal with them or move.
@@hakeemtarpley2998 No, those people were not there all of this time. They came to San Francisco due to the climate and because some "friend" told them to go there and that they would be tolerated.
As for the rich living there, yes there are many of them but there are still a few working class people living there as well in places (likely houses) that their families living in for many years, hence the reason they are still able to live there.
In the case of newer occupants buying houses, yes, you must be very well off to purchase a house for over a million dollars.
That said, housing prices in San Francisco are now dropping. My friend owns a house in Twin Peaks and it has dropped 1/4 million $ in a short time Soon it will drop more and more.
The way it is going, San Francisco will become a ghost town of drug addicts with nowhere to go and no one to sell them any more drugs. Awwww ... it breaks my heart NOT.
Given the history of San Francisco, I have no doubt that it will re-emerge to be a fine city once again as its backbone cannot be broken.
For the time being, it is a wait and see situation that is indeed heart breaking to this old Native.
@@justsayknow7632I’m guessing you’re not history major. The SF conditions are caused by capitalism without control. Also, SF has had problems like these before. The city will heal… somewhat… somehow… sometime.
As it is, the whole USA is in decadence due to socioeconomic irregularities. Until that is fixed, don’t expect big positive changes.
This might hurt your feelings, but check why some countries are way better than the USA.
Where are those smug SF politicians who supported keeping SF locked down, defunding police, legalizing drugs and ignoring homelessness? Not to worry, SF voters will vote them back in.
They weren’t ignoring homelessness, they were encouraging it.
Yup, Newsom and his shady team gonna buy those discounted assets. You will see another democrat take over SF and kick all the homeless and crimes out of sf. Democrats leaders don't care about poor people. They care about their power and wealth.
Yea, where is there victory parade saying "we won!"
What's more important to win Democrats or to have better live in ur state? They voted for Democrat each term than complain about the situation not changing, yes the problem is the voters.
San Francisco is very anti-business right now. I remember a story last year about an Ice Cream shop owner tried to open a store on a vacant building. He spent $200,000 securing permits and 16 months ~ but when he was finished with everything, he was told that there were new regulations and more permits to secure. Another $50k was needed. Smh.
Then you have regulators trying to fine business owners for everything that is not up to regulations. Another story is a Vietnamese restaurant got vandalized by spraypaint. Before the owners even stepped foot into their restaurant to open for the day, there was a city warning notice slapped onto their door to tell them to clean the mess up or they'll be fine $1000 a day.
So hard to start a business here but in other states people have small businesses everywhere with low start up cost🤦🏽♀️
yeah, but you also need customers to run a business. If all of the working class and middle class are unable to afford to live in SF then why are they going to shop there? Especially, if most of them are working remote and even leaving the state altogether?
I feel like more emphasis needs to be placed on building real neighborhood communities with diverse economic and social classes
@@felixthecat2786your exactly right 💯. The capitalist pigs want it all.
The restaurant should move to Seattle where defacing property is legal. Graffiti is considered free speech, haha!!
@@felixthecat2786 just give the government more power and responsibility then. What could go wrong
Congratulations on the continuing decline and decay of SF. You voted for this.
This is a self inflicted embarrassment created by City Hall for officially legalizing brazen thefts. Shoplifting spree is totally out of control in the City.
San Francisco is a criminal paradise. Steal and Rob and if you get caught you'll be released in a day or less. So you can steal and rob some more until you get caught.
@@Danny-bd2eh created by the voters.
Didn't you hear the guy? The pandemic did this! Not the elected Democrats.
Alcatraz City here we come
I can’t imagine why businesses are leaving a crime infested communist area like San Francisco. Like the Oakland A’s moving away is a total mystery 😱
Communist? Lmfao what you see is basically capitalism.
Living in Vegas I don’t want the A’s and I don’t want more liberal voters moving here. Stay and enjoy the mess you voted for!
Agreed. CA's demise must suck for the surrounding conservative states that have to take in fleeing Dem-voting refugees.
@@JB-ti7bl They will surely miss being pandered to but at least they can walk down the sidewalks without stepping in 💩
Most of us knew this would happen when they screamed defund the police.
Such a shame to see it all go down the drain. It really brings me no pleasure to see a once great city fall like this, but it needs to be a lesson on the failings of local governance.
Keep voting like a good democrat and the entire state will turn into a pile of 💩.
Not me, I am always pleased when voters get exactly what they want from their politicians.
Aww it brings me so much pleasure.
? This is working as they intended. This is "great success" to them.
Yeah I'm pretty apolitical, but it's clear the rampant liberal policies are the culprit here. Whether the civic leaders want to admit it or not, you need a conservative counterbalance or this is what can occur.
We all need to hear 'No' sometimes..
all these stores closing are very inconvenient for thefts. the city leaders should be very concern.
they need to think of the people of colored
@@scotttild people go to the mall to buy things, for the experience, and to be around other people. no sense in going to a mall that's dead because retail stores like Nieman Marcus closed their doors.
True, where is an honest thief supposed to steal if the stores close?
LOL.
Blaming online shopping is hilarious.
San Francisco has eventually become the Detroit in the west coast.
Woah there, it isn't that bad yet. You can say that when you start to see $1 homes in San Francisco.
@@nightshade8958 LMAO I don’t see any view In which it’s good that there are overly inflated property prices in SF/LA. Give me the $1 homes
LA is still in the lead.
@@stevefink6000 lol LA lives rent free for SF heads. LA is messed up in its own ways. But try finding a place to eat in downtown SF Market past 7pm…. Besides frozen bar foods , the melt and McDonald’s . A lot of people say “oh yeah have fun eating in Skid Row “ but be honest nobody is gonna go and intentionally hang out there at night ?? You can find so many business open still in center of downtown LA. And you are never more than 30 minutes drive away from other popular cities that are open like Whittier , Long Beach, Cerritos, Pasadena , Burbank. Etc. Drive a little further and there’s all of Orange County with its thriving business . where will you go in SF the warf that closes everything by 8pm? Mission district where there’s stabbings and shooting happening and done by non homeless. I’m not even factoring the SF homeless crimes at the moment okay. But let’s continue, will you Take the Bart over to Oakland ? You want to go to Daly City or exploring the area around Twin Peaks where there’s broad daylight robberies EVERYDAY!!
@@nightshade8958 Insurance companies are either charging huge premiums for homeowners insurance or just not underwriting any new policies. You bet the home sales collapse is coming.
I left San Francisco in late 2017, lived there for 20 years. I’m glad I got to enjoy the last good years of San Francisco. It breaks my heart what has become of this city.
Moved out in 2020!
This is because of the intense crime not pandemic. Valley fair in San Jose is thriving.
Recall Dean Preston
Recall Hillary Ronen
BUT VOTE FOR PIGLOSI AND GREWSOME THEY DEFINITELY ARE NOT THE PROBLEM! 🤡🤡🤡
Just wait till London Bridges starts handing train tickets out to junkies and the homeless.
@@angel91siccnessgreat comment.
Yea, who would have ever thunk it? Legalizing theft causes all the retail businesses to close up
The effects of your voting havent kicked in yet, give it a few more months. Democrats are always on denial.
the problem is there is too many crimes in San Francisco. I just don't feel safe shopping at the high end places in San Francisco.
The criminals will rob you or follow you home. San Francisco is not a safe place.
Don't feel bad for them. They voted for it.
How they're not all voted out of office is beyond me, you reap what you sow.
The way sf works is they keep them here, sell drugs don drugs ok fine but don’t leave the tenderloin, but now they added downtown
Brazen thefts have killed local retailers from all directions. Nobody can survive any business in this losing battle against repeated shoplifting conditions. Merchants have to cut the losses and get the hell out of San Francisco when they get the chance right now.
Just dont come to conservative states, if you vote for these policies!
It's covid
Fear of COVID, maybe.
Fear of climate change is just as destructive.
@@ajax7ox729 lol
Everyone is allowed a free $950 shopping spree at all stores 24/7. How do you know if they took $2,000 or $950 worth of goods - you don’t that’s the beauty of SF.
I'm starting to think that the downfall of SF is a foreshadowing of what's to come for all American cities.
Liberal cities all red states are being invaded.
Youre right! People think it wont come to their town. You think its just a democrat issue? Its coming! America is falling! Its bigger than you think!
yep
Now you know why Newsom is busy rehearsing his presidential campaign! He can’t wait to make America California 😬
Only democrat ones.
Still blaming the pandemic, are people really this dense in SF?
Oh yeah, sure if was because of "The Pandemic", not the rampant unabated crime and drugs.
I can bet 100 bucks that in the next 6 month's that map of the area they showed of stores that have left will become like Skid Row down in the LA area. A bunch of homeless people will have their tents there in no time.😮
with a new Feces Brick Road leading right into the area.
It's probably only a matter of time until Macy's closes their Union Square store.
How sad. 30 years ago when I used to travel a lot in the United States and Europe, San Francisco was my favorite City in America together with Venice and Lucerne in Europe.
How sad... how very very sad.
Yeah i also hv plan to travel to usa and this place is big no no for me. So scary. florida, west virgina, tennesse and new england are in my bucket list.
Not really. It was self inflicted.
Love the Fact that San Francisco is turning into a combat zone
great duo, elected officials and supporting voters, they are clueless on what's wrong with themselves, still looking for others to be blamed.
The democrat party is a cult.
You can’t wake up people who pretend to sleep.
My local mall was just reduced to rubble. It opened in 1992.
It’s not just of the pandemic
But San Franciscan who supported and voted for Demonrats
This makes me think this is all part of some sort of plan!
Because you are a conspiracy nut.
Bingo
The ONLY way out of this spiral is a NO TOLERANCE drug and theft atmosphere. This can not keep going on. We are becoming a victim of our own "compassion".
Amazing accomplishment by Governor Gavin NUISANCE! Gavin Nuisance will do to America, what he has done to California! #GavinNuisance2024
We prefer Gavin Newsolini here in the Bay Area.
@@sonnystaton doesn’t have as much ring to it.
@@JJ-cc7gx Those who know history think it's perfect.
No business in their right mind would open in SF. Unless they are a free food pantry.
Or sell work boots
You voted for this ... now live with it.
But hardly anybody ever goes to the theater anymore plus malls have been out of decline for 20 years. All the anchor stores are closing down.
California Prop 47 legalized shoplifter stolen $900 or less to be treated like a demeanor and not a criminal.
I guess San Francisco requires store owners to pay $900 to anyone to shoplifter to walk out of the store for a demeanor.
Would California also pass another prop to legalize burglar to break into a home or car and take stuff worth of $900 and be treated like a demeanor not criminal?
That $900.00 number is just smoke, woke, and mirrors......Any amount is tolerated, welcomed, equity, inclusion, and reparations until the real $5 million per AA is distributed. YAY, what a winner !!!
Proposition 47 should be eliminated. Have petty theft be a crime. Period.
Business are closing not because of the pandemic. It’s because the rent and real estate is so expensive for people who live there that they can’t afford to shop.
If you open a business in SF, you deserve what's coming
I visited San Francisco in 2019 (from Houston) and it was so good when I saw the businesses and everyone walking around in peace.
What happened?
I was there in 1997 it was beautiful. I miss the 90s. It was a different time
I was told businesses leaving San Fran was a good thing. Those evil businesses are now out. Well done.
So sad, I remembered when the Cinemark first opened too. At this rate there wouldn’t be anymore Downtown/Union Square…just a ghost town if Metreon decides not to lease anymore like Westfield.
Inflation! Government spending and debt with inflation are crippling the common citizens, I for one am cutting all spending on everything.
WTH, California sucks right now, if they would lower the rent make life affordable how it used to be nobody would steal and you wouldn’t have that many homeless, and also nobody talks about it but after Napa closed there mental hospital and the state took a cut on helping the mentally ill, the threw them on the street, that brought more rising numbers to homelessness. Lack of proper quality of life in California as far as having a roof over your head a descent job and transportation is rare especially with the younger generation 20-25, they can’t make out here. It cost at the least $7000 to get in a apartment with first last and deposit. Yesterday on the news they said a person who is making minimum wage has to work 88 hours a week to afford a one bedroom apartment in the Bay Area. Please GAVIN NEWSOM make it make sense, help your people, you worried about California going green when your people is going broke, and we are loosing money because everybody is moving out of state including me if this continues.
You literally voted for these folks who have clearly got no agenda apart from ruining your state for good, now please enjoy the cultural enrichment that progressive thinking brings. Stay forever 🤩
Pretty soon the city's tax base will run low..btw, where's the mayor's tough talk.
KEEP VOTING DEM>. KEEP VOTING DEM>. KEEP VOTING DEM>.
it will somehow change? right? 🤣🤣
The government should've let the population shrink naturally. Smaller population will make life competition less intense and lower property prices as happened in Japan, which will eventually make the citizens happier
Won't happen. There's a huge wave of third world peasants crossing the broder that think life is better in the US. But.... it's not. The US is a thrid world country.
Someone has lied to you about Japan. You haven’t heard of Japan’s suicide forest? Japan is also a crowed island.
How dare they say this is happening due to crime! Its due to the pandemic, online shopping! And so on! There is no crime in SF! There is no drug use and homelessness on the streets!
Dude, it blows my mind that before the pandemic, the same things were happening. People pissing in front of billion dollar business headquarters on the street, using illicit drugs in the open, nonstop sirens, what a wonderful hellscape that place must be to live in.
It is 10x worse now.
How long are you going to keep blaming everything on the pandemic? Until you find a new excuse for your failure?
They would have used the same old excuse of blaming republicans or Trump but they haven’t elected a Republican in 75 years so they had to come up with another excuse like all narcissists do.
a perfect combination of Bad Economy, High Labor Cost, Sky High Crime Rate...
greatest country in the world... yeeahh rite...
Where I live there is no problem coming back from the pandemic. Perhaps it's something else.
Bay Area voter 100% to blame!
Makes you wonder about the trend in mayors and a city’s decline. Just saying. 😮
it is not the pandemic
It is too late for Frisco to recover. Soon very soon it will be on life support.
How do voters keep ignoring the failures of Democrat politics? Especially third-world Democrat politics
Go to a movie, come back to broken glass and all your belongings gone in your car. Totally not worth it.
Shopping habits, do you mean shoplifting habits?
Who want to negotiate the sidewalks to see a film in San Fecescisco 🎥 🎞 😂
Kinda like Hilltop Mall
SF is done
Look at Detroit if you want to see the future of SF. At least Detroit didn't have it coming like SF does.
You mean 90’s and 00’s Detroit because Downtown Detroit and Downtown SF are not alike whatsoever 😭
@bothpoint8667 both cities do have one thing in common it's the high crime rate and the drug use.
Yea, down town Detroit is way nicer right now than San Francisco, I’m not lying
It’s going to be like detroit in a short while
They’ll just keep voting for it…deal with it SF
Changes in consumer habits. Since when did we like shopping in high crime areas
They voted for this !!+
"Crime is also a problem" lol
All that unemployment gonna affect the city so much
Yea lets make sure these zombies never die with naloxone and compassionate policies! Woke SF! ✌️
Gotham city with no Batman. 😢
Batman would be considered a terrorist and most police/investigative force would be after him.
@@kauetadaieski3131 unless he be Bat-trans
Today the 18th there was 4 shooting in different states this weekend what could go wrong tomorrow already
The decline of the empire will be epic
Fentanyl and Meth are turning "Houselessness" into Hopelessness.
I haven't seen this much commercial devestation since the late 80s outside of Philadelphia, PA .... The crime was so high in the suburbs ..... Big malls closed and kept moving to further out to avoid the massive criminal element ...... This is so saddening to see the commercial infrastructures just pack their bags ... But ? What's the real solution to this ongoing crisis ??? Something seriously needs addressed ..... By this clip ..... Apparently no one has real answers ... Very saddening . Stay safe out there . ✌🏿
you voted for london breed now pay the price🤡🤡🤡
SF is completely dying due to high crimes, illegal drugs, increasing homeless people and lack of job opportunities. Americans are moving out of the country. US is starting to die.
Tell the real reason your closing.
Businesses in our little town closed during the pandemic and never reopened ! Strange to see so many buildings empty
That moviegoer seems to be out of touch with the reality of what's actually happening.
I used to love going to this place in 2006 😢
Almost forgot Kamala Harris was the attorney general of California
Get out while you still can
nah, let them stay and enjoy what they created.
Californians leaving California is like swarm of locusts destroying wherever they go; bringing their stupidity with them. Just like they destroyed many parts of California.
San Francisco got exactly what it voted for! Hahaha!
Biden for 2024 President! AOC for 2028 President!
San Francisco now officially a high price Hell Hole...😂🤣🔥
Vote Republican next time, vote to reinstate death penalty, San Diego just made encampments illegal vote for that too
How about those Niners!
San Fran, like all cities run by mayors with a "D" after their name, is rotting away.
I’m here to see how my ideology has destroyed the city, but because my heads up my butt I’ll blame it on the pandemic, the world is rainbows and glitter.
They should lower the threshold from $950 to $100.
I have 1000$ worth of stuff ok let me put this back now I have 900$ worth of stuff I’m good! Lol 😂 😊
A simple solution gives the retailer the power to stop any criminal with force. A few broken arms will teach people not to steal.
So would the death penalty and public hangings but that ain't gonna happen either.
DEMOCRAT INFESTED!
What is the value of human rights, when the life of normal people are shattered and broken into pieces by the crimes and inaction of the police force.
So sad to see these places leave.
We no longer vacation in CA. Or go for business etc. we vacation in our own state and city. Come to find out most accommodations at home are less expensive, cleaner and well maintained. We also no longer loose the 2 days of travel time and save on those travel services like air plane tickets, rental cars etc.
It’s all trumps fault right. Lol
The value of goods that can be stolen before it becomes a felony ought to be zero! This is insanity.
Things have changed for Market St. with the crime/homeless now a big part of that area. Also, workers going remote and young people's tastes are very different too. Indoor shopping malls are not in fashion, but outdoor malls with lots of eateries do much better. I wonder if the Fisherman's Wharf area in SF is doing poorly too. Lots of buskers there, but not a huge problem with homeless lying about like in the Market St. BART station exit.
Most San Francisco residents could care less that Union Square businesses and Westfield have vacated. Why? Because they don’t shop at Louis Vitton for $4000 purses, or $5000 suits or gowns at Saks Fifth Avenue, or $40K watches at Tiffany’s. Why not tear down the vacant buildings and make new parks? Convert the Westfield mall building into an LGBTQi cultural museum, and add a live music hall like Carnegie Hall in NY.
keep voting blue people, and that’s what you get