Panda Express—the LAST Restaurant at S.F.’s Largest Mall—Has CLOSED

When a 400% increase in human excrement events in your mall elevators becomes a regular Tuesday, you know you've hit rock bottom. San Francisco's largest mall—1.5 million square feet of former retail glory—is now officially dead. Panda Express, the last restaurant standing, has closed its doors for good.This wasn't a slow decline; this was policy-induced collapse. Remember "15 days to flatten the curve"? Try two years of lockdowns that killed foot traffic, combined with open-air drug markets and the Tenderloin's finest using elevators as bathrooms. The mall went from millions of shoppers to zero bids at foreclosure auction. Not even at $134 million—less than 20% of peak value. Westfield literally handed the keys back to lenders and said "good luck."Meanwhile, city leaders proposed solutions like... a soccer stadium? Sure, because what San Francisco needs is more places nobody will visit. Is anyone surprised this happened? What did they expect when they turned a blind eye to street chaos for years?