SF Union Square on path to economic recovery: Here are the signs and roadblocks

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  • čas přidán 20. 06. 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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    #unionsquare #business #shopping #sanfrancisco #abc #abc7news

Komentáře • 200

  • @moon3173
    @moon3173 Před 24 dny +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 Před 23 dny +1

      Lol that would be an expensive shelter

    • @mrswolls
      @mrswolls Před 23 dny +3

      can we also fence off the east bay?

    • @RajDeelish
      @RajDeelish Před 23 dny +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 Před 22 dny +1

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

    • @richk3135
      @richk3135 Před 19 dny

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

  • @AshleyKeith-vw7ws
    @AshleyKeith-vw7ws Před 24 dny +121

    Our economy is struggling with uncertainties, housing issues, foreclosures, global fluctuations, and the pandemic aftermath, causing instability. Rising inflation, sluggish growth, and trade disruptions need urgent attention from all sectors to restore stability and stimulate growth.

    • @MelissaHobbs-qm8wi
      @MelissaHobbs-qm8wi Před 24 dny +4

      With the US dollar losing value to inflation and other currencies gaining traction, uncertainty looms. Yet, many still trust in the dollar's perceived safety. Worried about my $420,000 retirement savings losing value, I seek alternative security for my money.

    • @BrianAlbert-hh3pi
      @BrianAlbert-hh3pi Před 24 dny +2

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      @JessicaKeith-uj1jq Před 24 dny +2

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      @BrianAlbert-hh3pi Před 24 dny +2

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    • @JessicaKeith-uj1jq
      @JessicaKeith-uj1jq Před 24 dny +1

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  • @albertdesalvo7697
    @albertdesalvo7697 Před 24 dny +20

    Recovery really 😂😂😂😂?

  • @richk3135
    @richk3135 Před 19 dny +6

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

  • @StephenDavis-vh4oc
    @StephenDavis-vh4oc Před 25 dny +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 Před 25 dny +29

    Don't buy the BS. Its a mess.

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 Před 24 dny

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 Před 24 dny

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 Před 24 dny

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 Před 24 dny

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 Před 24 dny

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

  • @JOHN_F_KENNEDY_DADDY
    @JOHN_F_KENNEDY_DADDY Před 25 dny +19

    Criminals will still do flash mobs

  • @hwyfools
    @hwyfools Před 23 dny +8

    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 Před 20 dny

      The place was subverted by the communist decades ago .

  • @Arzalons
    @Arzalons Před 22 dny +6

    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 Před 22 dny +1

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

  • @Brian-sh4sm
    @Brian-sh4sm Před 25 dny +34

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

    • @celebrityrog
      @celebrityrog Před 24 dny

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

  • @jasonsmith1143
    @jasonsmith1143 Před 25 dny +14

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

    • @brosephbroman7564
      @brosephbroman7564 Před 25 dny +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 Před 25 dny +1

      🤫

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng Před 25 dny +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 Před 24 dny +2

      For me it’s the Roseville Galleria up past Sacramento

  • @JC-rc3pr
    @JC-rc3pr Před 23 dny +17

    We need a new mayor!!!

  • @user-kl4wz2bc3l
    @user-kl4wz2bc3l Před 23 dny +9

    Great news for homeless people, and the criminals.

  • @zicobond9942
    @zicobond9942 Před 23 dny +19

    this lady is a professional liar

    • @kenjones6046
      @kenjones6046 Před 22 dny

      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 Před 22 dny +1

      She is a liar

    • @theepicfailgamer6317
      @theepicfailgamer6317 Před 20 dny +1

      kazuka Morgan😂😂😂

    • @LineageSys
      @LineageSys Před 19 dny

      These realtors will sell their own children for money.

  • @misterkiller89
    @misterkiller89 Před 24 dny +9

    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 Před 23 dny

      and low intelligence!

    • @TheYouthquaker
      @TheYouthquaker Před 22 dny

      We don’t have an active nightlife anymore.

  • @bellabella9181
    @bellabella9181 Před 21 dnem +3

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

  • @RajDeelish
    @RajDeelish Před 23 dny +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.

  • @RK-xv1si
    @RK-xv1si Před 24 dny +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.

  • @jasonleman1396
    @jasonleman1396 Před 25 dny +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?)

  • @paulreynolds2569
    @paulreynolds2569 Před 24 dny +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 Před 23 dny +3

      same thing with Cuba

    • @mfsoli
      @mfsoli Před 23 dny +1

      Yes, the mega rich neighborhoods!

    • @RajDeelish
      @RajDeelish Před 23 dny

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

  • @mgtl9639
    @mgtl9639 Před 24 dny +3

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

  • @stevekwan8232
    @stevekwan8232 Před 23 dny +3

    Nintendo ? Wow I am sure theives are waiting

  • @marioacevedo5077
    @marioacevedo5077 Před 22 dny +1

    Let's check back in six months.

  • @San_Francisco_Downtown_Watcher

    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

  • @Katsnacks
    @Katsnacks Před 25 dny +16

    Not with these toilet streets, you won’t

    • @pwp8737
      @pwp8737 Před 24 dny +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.

  • @BennyRuff
    @BennyRuff Před 23 dny +4

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

  • @saintapathy
    @saintapathy Před 9 dny

    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.

  • @johnhofer7281
    @johnhofer7281 Před 20 dny +2

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

  • @madge2114
    @madge2114 Před 24 dny +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 Před 16 dny

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

  • @BrOoKLyNx
    @BrOoKLyNx Před 21 dnem +1

    Answer: NEW MAYOR

  • @bethanyhealy4989
    @bethanyhealy4989 Před 9 dny

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

  • @dane9175
    @dane9175 Před 25 dny +20

    BULL SHIT!! 😎

    • @stayfree870
      @stayfree870 Před 24 dny

      It's human 💩 that's the problem.

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 Před 24 dny

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

  • @LittleNezha126
    @LittleNezha126 Před 22 dny +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

  • @josephchan4198
    @josephchan4198 Před 23 dny +1

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

  • @MrYfrank14
    @MrYfrank14 Před 25 dny +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 Před 25 dny

      Every year is an election year.

    • @MrYfrank14
      @MrYfrank14 Před 24 dny

      @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.

  • @eddieg6436
    @eddieg6436 Před 25 dny +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 Před 24 dny +1

      Sounds like PR.

    • @dereksue4877
      @dereksue4877 Před 24 dny +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 Před 24 dny

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @kenjones6046
      @kenjones6046 Před 23 dny

      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 Před 23 dny

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

  • @LostChildOfTime
    @LostChildOfTime Před 25 dny +4

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

    • @garycallihan4206
      @garycallihan4206 Před 24 dny

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

    • @russelltate1394
      @russelltate1394 Před 24 dny +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.

  • @pekkle007
    @pekkle007 Před 20 dny

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

  • @youtubeLa2023
    @youtubeLa2023 Před 19 dny

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

  • @geniusatwrok
    @geniusatwrok Před 5 dny

    "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?

  • @boostedmaniac
    @boostedmaniac Před 20 dny

    Bring back mayor Willie Brown.

  • @Jojo-oj1uz
    @Jojo-oj1uz Před 22 dny

    Dollar stores move in?

  • @chinftw
    @chinftw Před 23 dny +1

    Why she lying

  • @kuojeff3962
    @kuojeff3962 Před 22 dny +1

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

  • @jz94117
    @jz94117 Před 24 dny +1

    Another of an endless series of San Francisco business subsidies.

    • @jz94117
      @jz94117 Před 24 dny

      Come and ride our subsidized cable cars

  • @bethanyhealy4989
    @bethanyhealy4989 Před 9 dny

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

  • @ivonneguerinoni3881
    @ivonneguerinoni3881 Před 19 dny

    In the middle of the homeless and criminals?

  • @diggingmystyle
    @diggingmystyle Před 22 dny

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

  • @jimzischka1249
    @jimzischka1249 Před 19 dny +1

    They're full of chit !!

  • @ILUVGOGI-ri2kd
    @ILUVGOGI-ri2kd Před 19 dny

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

  • @rolandfreasier1642
    @rolandfreasier1642 Před 20 dny +1

    That’s all BS

  • @ypl236
    @ypl236 Před 10 dny

    lol, typical realtor response

  • @stevekwan8232
    @stevekwan8232 Před 23 dny

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

  • @JamesMaynardMoreland
    @JamesMaynardMoreland Před 25 dny +3

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

  • @user-zu3md5qz8y
    @user-zu3md5qz8y Před 16 dny

    welcome to Biden Bay Cities

  • @RobustArid379
    @RobustArid379 Před 22 dny

    Fake advertising

  • @gnaflethegarthok3074
    @gnaflethegarthok3074 Před 25 dny +4

    Delusional

  • @Dwn2Race
    @Dwn2Race Před 25 dny +3

    ALL Lies…

  • @robbieross6646
    @robbieross6646 Před 21 dnem +1

    State Propaganda.

  • @whatamess2358
    @whatamess2358 Před 23 dny +1

    Bahhahah

  • @danielwoodruff5031
    @danielwoodruff5031 Před 20 dny

    Recovery 🤣

  • @dazzz887
    @dazzz887 Před 22 dny

    No its not stop lying….😂

  • @thatwastakenagain
    @thatwastakenagain Před 24 dny

    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 Před 23 dny +1

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

    • @RajDeelish
      @RajDeelish Před 23 dny +1

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

  • @NikkiRowCoxx
    @NikkiRowCoxx Před 2 dny

    False Hope.

  • @rogerngu830
    @rogerngu830 Před 4 dny

    Stop lying, the city is dying

  • @tototita413
    @tototita413 Před 24 dny +1

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

  • @JC-rc3pr
    @JC-rc3pr Před 23 dny +1

    The city is trash!!!!

  • @garycallihan4206
    @garycallihan4206 Před 24 dny +1

    There will be no recovery. That's all.

  • @leunam3434
    @leunam3434 Před 25 dny

    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 Před 25 dny +4

      Soon to be ex-mayor.

    • @Thejimbodowntown
      @Thejimbodowntown Před 25 dny +4

      This is a joke right?

    • @kenjones6046
      @kenjones6046 Před 25 dny

      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 Před 25 dny +2

      How much are they paying you?

    • @sfdanceron1
      @sfdanceron1 Před 25 dny

      @@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.

  • @brosephbroman7564
    @brosephbroman7564 Před 25 dny +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 Před 25 dny +1

      Based on the GDP... doubt it.

    • @dereksue4877
      @dereksue4877 Před 24 dny +1

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

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 Před 24 dny

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 Před 24 dny

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

    • @karelglasner2673
      @karelglasner2673 Před 24 dny

      The Democrat party of SYSTEMIC INCOMPETANCE 🤣 Cheap Fakes

  • @MT-xf3eb
    @MT-xf3eb Před 22 dny

    Sf is dead

  • @mamasan7902
    @mamasan7902 Před 24 dny +2

    Recovery? Don’t make me laugh!

  • @jackjones5725
    @jackjones5725 Před 22 dny

    Not as long as you have Democrats

  • @user-ic2kk5vf4o
    @user-ic2kk5vf4o Před 24 dny

    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 🛑