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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: SF's GIANT MALL SHUTS EARLY — Doom Loop DESTROYS Westfield Centre!
Description: San Francisco's largest mall just closed its doors—a day early, no less—after nearly 20 years of slow-motion collapse. What started as a 1.5 million square foot retail destination plummeted from $1.2 billion in value to a pathetic $133 million credit sale that nobody even wanted to bid on. We're talking about a mall so bad that human waste in the elevators increased 400%, Panda Express was literally sued to leave, and shoppers chose Amazon over risking the experience. This video covers the entire saga: the foreclosure nobody bid on, Westfield handing back the keys, and Mayor Lurie's uphill battle to figure out what...