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The Westfield Mall is very close to the Financial District. Nearly _everything_ in the Financial District was open _only_ during regular business hours -- thos
by simoncion 3y ago
The Westfield Mall is very close to the Financial District.
Nearly _everything_ in the Financial District was open _only_ during regular business hours -- those businesses were there to only cater to the folks working in FiDi and noone else. Outside of business hours (and during many business holidays) that district was dead, dead, dead.
I wonder how much outside-of-work-hours spillover there was from FiDi office workers to businesses immediately adjacent to FiDi, and also wonder if those adjacent businesses have been significantly impacted now that oh so many people are no longer working inside those offices.
- idlewords 3y agoThe Westfield Mall was right off a BART stop, so it was a fairly convenient place to go shop in SF if you didn't have a car. It was also near the flagship stores around Union Square, which is the main hotel district and another destination shopping spot. So the mall (at least when I used to go there) would be pretty busy even on weekends or evenings when the financial district was dead silent.
- simoncion 3y agoOh yeah, it is definitely in a really good location. Being right next to BART is usually super good for foot traffic... and being very close to Union Square is (was?) also super good. And yeah, like four years ago the Westfield Mall had _way_ more foot traffic than it had the few times I visited like four or six months ago. I was just wondering out loud about the effects of the loss of the workers in FiDi.