San Francisco Centre, the downtown mall once known as Westfield San Francisco Centre, will permanently close next Monday, according to an employee at one of the last remaining stores who spoke with reporters. The shutdown caps a slow, two-year exodus of retailers and restaurants that has left the complex largely empty. Commuters and shoppers can expect the concourses to go dark and at least one direct BART passage to be sealed in the coming days.
BART entrance already sealed
BART has already shut the entrance from Powell Street Station, which for decades funneled riders directly into the mall. “SF Centre’s General Manager advised BART they were going to close the entrance from the Powell Station concourse level to their mall,” Alicia Trost, BART’s…..