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Well, in all the times that the media likes to talk about the decline under progressive woke leaders,

they sometimes point to California with our homelessness and crime problems.

And one place they go to in particular when they want to look at homelessness and crime is

San Francisco. In fact, the term that's now been applied to that city is the Dune Loop.

And it's not just from crime and homelessness, but it's also a place where I guess a lot of

tech people worked and

decided that when the pandemic came and they can work anywhere in the world, they left.

Downtown San Francisco I saw yesterday has a 30-some-odd percent vacancy rate for office rentals.

One story that also got a lot of attention concerning all of this was a major

downtown San Francisco mall known as the Westfield Mall. I had been there many times over the years.

The big tenant was Nordstrom's. Well, they pulled out. And that was followed by the mall's owner

announcing that it was going to stop making payments on a $558 million loan

and was effectively leaving the city.

This has led to the term because it affects the tax base of the city.

The doom loop.

Obviously, San Francisco's downtown is important.

Tourism is another big deal, but you do need office workers and business

there to get a tax base beyond the residents. The National Review posted up a story recently

entitled Brawls, Theft Drugs, How Rampant Crime Has Turned Westfield Mall into a symbol of San Francisco's decline. It's an interesting read.

One thing that popped out immediately is, according to the statistics they were able to garner,

in the last three years, authorities have been called to the mall more than 5,000 times for a

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