The city’s largest mall, which had planned to shut down at the end of the weekend, was locked and dark Saturday morning.
A sign posted at the entrance to San Francisco Centre said the downtown shopping hub was “closed until further notice.”
An employee at Ecco, the mall’s last remaining tenant, confirmed that the shoe store — and the mall itself — had permanently shuttered earlier than expected, ahead of Monday’s previously announced closure date.The early shutdown marks the final chapter for what was once San Francisco’s largest and most prominent shopping mall, after years of vacancies and tenant departures hollowed out a downtown retail landmark…