During recent remarks, San Francisco Mayor London Breed suggested tearing down the city’s main shopping mall due to rampant crime; 47% of retailers have left Westfield Mall.
“A Westfield mall could become, you know, something completely different than what it currently is. It could be a place where — we could even tear down the whole building and build a whole new soccer stadium,” Breed said at a Bloomberg summit on Thursday. “We can create lab space or look at it as a new company in some other capacity,” she added.
San Francisco has seen crime surge to dangerous levels under Democratic policies; AG Chesa Boudin lost a recall election earlier this year due to his soft-on-crime stance.
Florida Governor and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis recently shot a campaign ad in San Francisco, addressing the dilapidated state of the once-great city.
Leadership matters. Cities like San Francisco that have embraced leftist policies have destroyed the quality of life of their citizens and sparked an exodus of productive people to greener pastures. We need to restore sanity across this country. pic.twitter.com/LF86omZ1e6
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) June 20, 2023
According to The Daily Caller, “Crime has been a leading issue for both San Francisco residents and business owners; in 2019, there were 203 retailers in Union Square, but by 2023 that number had declined to 107, the San Francisco Standard reported.”