Westfield San Francisco Centre
The interior of the mall
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| Location | 865 Market St San Francisco, California, 94103 USA |
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| Coordinates | 37°47′2″N 122°24′26″W / 37.78389°N 122.40722°WCoordinates: 37°47′2″N 122°24′26″W / 37.78389°N 122.40722°W |
| Opening date | October 1988 |
| Developer | Sheldon Gordon |
| Management | Westfield Group |
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Westfield Group & Forest City Enterprises |
| No. of stores and services | 180+ |
| No. of anchor tenants | 9 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,564,533 million ft² retail & 250,000 ft² office [1][2] |
| No. of floors | 9 |
| Public transit access | Powell Street Station |
| Website | westfield.com/sanfrancisco |
Westfield San Francisco Centre is an upscale, urban shopping mall located in San Francisco, California, managed by the Westfield Group and co-owned by Westfield and Forest City Enterprises. It is anchored by Nordstrom and Bloomingdale's, and includes a Century Theatres multiplex, a Bristol Farms gourmet grocery store and a branch of San Francisco State University. It connects directly to the Powell Street transit station via an underground entrance.
Originally developed by Sheldon Gordon (co-developer of The Forum Shops at Caesars and Beverly Center) the center opened in October 1991 as San Francisco Shopping Centre with approximately 500,000 square feet (46,000 m2) of space, the then-largest Nordstrom store (350,000 square feet) on the top several floors, the first spiral escalators in the United States, and connecting through to the adjoining Emporium-Capwell flagship store.
After a slow start, it soon became one of the top performing shopping centers in the country. In 1996, the adjoining Emporium (it had dropped the Capwell name by then) was shuttered in the wake of Federated Department Stores' buyout of its parent, Broadway Stores. The vacated store was temporarily used as a Macy's furniture store while it renovated its Union Square flagship in 1997.
In May 1997, Urban Shopping Centers, Inc., a Real Estate Investment Trust acquired a half-interest and management of the center. This was followed by Urban's own buyout by Rodamco North America N.V. (a European property firm primarily invested in the United States) in October 2000 and Rodamco's subsequent sale to a consortium including The Westfield Group in January 2002. Westfield acquired its initial 50% stake in the center at this time and soon bought the rest.
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