San Francisco Mayor Floats Razing Mall in Crisis-Ridden Downtown

Mayor London Breed speaks during the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on Thursday.

Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

San Francisco Mayor London Breed called on investors to redevelop the city’s struggling downtown core by converting or even demolishing empty buildings to make way for new growth.

“I think we have to start re-imagining what the downtown can be,” Breed said at the Bloomberg Technology Summit in San Francisco on Thursday.