Having an old navy in a tourist corridor that does a very bad job of serving local residents is your metric of whether a place is a healthy city or not?

I’m sure all those AI specialists will flee now that they can’t get fast fashion jorts on market street.

It’s amazing to me that on a forum of supposed hackers, legacy businesses failing is some sort of harbinger of doom.

E-commerce won in SF. This forum should be the place celebrating that and asking what’s next for those spaces.

Detroit didn’t die because it was a bad place for stores. It didn’t even die. It’s still a huge wealthy area.

It declined because people didn’t ask what’s next.