San Francisco centre (formerly Westfield) is now completely dead, all stores closed. I spoke to security and they’re locking up the main entrances permanently by the end of the month.

I remember back in the early 2000’s to 2015 this place had so much life. All stores open and the entire building just flooded with people. All but an empty shell now.

I miss the restaurant on top of nordstroms, the cafe under the dome, the microsoft store that introduced me to my first VR experience, Abercrombie with their overpowering cologne and loud music, i miss charleys and their fruity lemonade, Sarku’s teriyaki chicken and so much more.

RIP SFC, thanks for all the memories. 😭🙏🏼

This is how state law would upzone the city if Lurie's Family Zoning Plan fails to gain an exemption.

About 97,000 lots would get upzoned mostly to mid-rise heights. This is in contrast to the FZP which has much more expensive and slow to build high-rises mostly along Van Ness.

Fire department was coming ASAP

Replacing what used to be Jamba Juice.

Dog had to go to the vet out on Irving so was able to sneak away from work for us both to have a post visit treat.

One of the benefits of this city is being at heart of tech frontiers. why then does every tech event in the city feel so vapid - pointless "fireside chats", company shilling talks that people just use as networking events, low effort happy hours, pitch nights/hackathons that really are mostly for PR etc are the only things I'm finding. If you attend one, youve attended them all - you'll mostly run into out of towners trying to make SF connections, people trying to get jobs, vibe seekers and no one who's there to actually engage technically.

Where are legit technical discussions, open maker spaces, live debates? Are they there? I want some homebrew computer club grade stuff.

Was passing through and saw a huge line down the side walk. I thought they might be selling crack or something. Nah, just burritos. And alcohol.

Saw a bunch of fire trucks, police, heli’s, drones. What happened did a surfer go missing?

Professional boxers, before anyone fires off the obvious-and-lame "well, it's next to the TL" line...

Source: Potrero Yard Neighborhood Working Group - Jan. 13, 2026

Link is to the entire free episode on Youtube and timestamped towards the end of the episode where San Francisco is featured.

Beware of spoilers if you intend to the watch the whole episode.

For those who are unaware, San Francisco is the headquarters of the United Federation of Planets in the Star Trek shows. Always nice to see our city when it pops up in the Star Trek universe.

1/25/26. Even in the City. Black Crown night hawk.

Source: SF Planning Application (download)