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Shake Shack is closing up its store inside San Francisco’s largest mall as new house owners take over the beleaguered property.
A Nov. 25 submitting with state labor officers revealed that the fast-food chain will completely shut its location contained in the Westfield San Francisco Centre on Market Road on Dec. 14, a transfer that may influence 26 staff.
Shake Shack informed FOX Enterprise that San Francisco Centre, which has been tormented by hovering vacancies and a string of exits by main retailers, was offered to a brand new proprietor that’s requiring all tenants to vacate the premises.
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Shake Shack mentioned San Francisco Centre was offered to a brand new proprietor that’s requiring all tenants to vacate the premises. (Scott Olson/Getty Pictures)
“We stay targeted on supporting our folks by this transition and have supplied alternatives to all 26 group members to switch to close by Shake Shack places,” a Shake Shack spokesperson mentioned in a press release. “We sit up for welcoming our visitors at our different Bay Space Shacks and persevering with to be a part of the group.”
Inside of San Francisco Centre shopping center with closed storefronts seen, on Aug. 19, 2025. ( Smith Assortment/Gado/Getty Pictures)
The remaining tenants have been additionally issued notices from the property administration’s authorized counsel, informing them that their leases have been “extinguished” by a latest possession change, they usually wanted to vacate instantly, in accordance with the San Francisco Enterprise Instances.
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The mall’s new proprietor is an LLC generally known as DBJPM 2016-SFC Emporium. The brand new house owners assumed management following a foreclosures public sale on Nov. 12 that transferred the property away from its former operators, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield and Brookfield Properties, The Actual Deal reported. The earlier house owners defaulted on the mortgage and successfully walked away from the location in 2023.
Cabinets sit empty inside Nordstrom’s flagship retailer on the San Francisco Centre on Aug. 26, 2023. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Pictures)
Between 2020 and 2023, the mall misplaced 46% of its shops, The San Francisco Customary reported. That features its anchor division retailer, Nordstrom, which introduced in 2023 that it could shut each of its downtown San Francisco places, together with its flagship retailer contained in the Westfield San Francisco Centre.
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The mall’s different anchor tenant, Bloomingdale’s, left earlier this yr. Anchor tenants in malls are key to the success of the mall provided that they’re visitors engines. When anchors shut up store, it undermines viability for the remaining retailers as a result of foot visitors drops sharply.
A pedestrian walks by an entrance to the Westfield San Francisco Centre. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Pictures)
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In latest months, at the least six eating spots have left the mall, together with a Jamba Juice, Izzy & Wooks sandwich store and Mija Cochinita taco store, in accordance with the San Fransisco Chronicle.
