The San Francisco Centre, which has lost the battle for customers and profitability, is at war with itself as the downtown mall’s lawyers fight to evict some of the few businesses hanging on.
The company that runs the once-vibrant Westfield mall filed unlawful detainer complaints Friday in San Francisco Superior Court to kick out a restaurant, an eyebrow salon, and a shoe repair shop.
On Monday, a sign just inside the mall’s Fifth Street entrance still listed dozens of shuttered businesses as if they were still open for business. There was barely anyone shopping at the dwindling shops, such as H&M and shoe store Ecco, which offered steep markdowns for pre-closure sales…