San Francisco Centre runs nine floors up from Market Street in downtown San Francisco, California. The block had no room to spread sideways, so the mall was built upward, with the department store on top.
Nordstrom opened on the top five floors in October 1988 and stayed for 35 years. The building expanded across the old Emporium site in 2006 and reached about 1.5 million square feet.
Nordstrom’s floors have been empty since August 2023. The rest of the building emptied around them, and by late 2025 the mall was about 93 percent vacant…