Robert GrahamSan Francisco Mayor London Breed is pushing back against reports of a retail “collapse” in the city’s downtown, saying that the departure of many high-end stores is the result of “changes to retail” in the economy in general.
As Breitbart News has reported, there is an ongoing retail exodus from San Francisco, particularly in the area around Union Square and Market Street, at the terminus of the city’s famed cable car, where tourists arrive.
The reasons are many, but chief among them is the rise of crime in the downtown area, which spiked with the emergence of “mass looting” events, and persisted in a wave of shoplifting, homelessness, and drug abuse.
