The Long Goodbye: San Francisco’s Biggest Mall’s Auction is Delayed Again

A retail empire's spectacular collapse reveals the deeper challenges facing America's urban cores For nearly four decades, the San Francisco Centre stood as a towering monument to American consumer culture—a 1.5 million-square-foot retail cathedral that once drew 9.7 million visitors annually and generated $455 million in sales. Today, its spiral escalators carry mostly echoes, its […]