SF’s Biggest Mall Is Officially Closing
The writing was on the wall. San Francisco Centre, once the city’s largest shopping mall and a downtown retail anchor, will permanently close on January 26, 2026, according to an employee at its last remaining tenant. Formerly known as Westfield San Francisco Centre, the mall’s decline accelerated after 2020 as remote work, reduced tourism, and changing shopping habits drained foot traffic from the Powell Street corridor. The exits of Nordstrom in 2023 and Bloomingdale’s in 2025 removed the mall’s biggest draws, leaving only a handful of businesses operating by late 2025.
Restaurants were among the first to disappear. Panda Express, the final food court holdout, closed earlier this month, following earlier departures from Shake Shack and other vendors. In November, lenders took control of the property after acquiring the mall’s debt, and remaining tenants soon received lease termination notices, triggering the final wave of closures. BART has already shut the Powell Street Station entrance that once provided direct access into the mall.
The future of the massive Market Street property remains uncertain, and real estate experts have said that converting the building to another use could be prohibitively expensive.
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