The temporary closure of San Francisco's Civic Center Whole Foods, not even a year after it opened, is another alarm bell for city business leaders. For those living in the neighborhood, it's not exactly a surprise.
"It's really sad to say that it is closing within a year," said Yvonne."And you know, and I hate to say, it's just basically from the neighborhood."
"Oh yeah," she said."People taking bags of stuff, walking right out the garage door at the bottom basement out the parking garage.""They're in a bad location number one. The people that are using the drugs are right across the street." "I think we have seen a degradation of our public common spaces that you have a heart of our city streets," said Rufus Jeffris of the Bay Area Council."It's still visible in too many ways and it hits you like a ton of bricks every time you walk out your front door.""I think we have to be thinking about this as almost a state of emergency.," he said.
Breed said she's confident the spiral can be turned around, but Whole Foods is a sign that inertia, or at least perception, is still heading the wrong way.
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