aceThis mall was a symbol for San Francisco’s ‘doom loop’. Now it could become a datacenter project
Downtown San Francisco has shown signs of revival since being battered by the Covid pandemic, which led to what many called a “doom loop” of vacant buildings, a worsening homelessness crisis and dwindling public transit. But one highly visible reminder of the city’s struggle to recover remains: the San Francisco Centre mall, which sits at the heart of these urban renewal efforts and has been conspicuously boarded up since January of this year. A number of ideas have been floated for the mall’s reopening, includi…
A nearby deli owner says a datacenter in the closed mall would hurt neighborhood foot traffic, after her business reportedly fell at least 60% since the mall closed.
The plan is unconfirmed: no permits have been filed, the buyer is unidentified, the bid outcome is unknown, and it is unclear how the moratorium would apply to the project.
Evidence
- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-20
How should this claim be treated?
Truvace Impact Record TRV-2026-2025, v1: “This mall was a symbol for San Francisco’s ‘doom loop’. Now it could become a datacenter project.” Truvace, 2026-10-20. /record/TRV-2026-2025 (accessed at citation time). sha256 47c98425486c59e6…
Calibration history
Every change to this record since certification, in the open. None yet — the reading has held since it entered the record.
Certified into the record
How to verify without trusting this page
Fetch the canonical text of any version from /api/record/TRV-2026-2025 and hash it yourself — for example shasum -a 256 on the saved canonical field. The result must equal content_hash, and each version’s text ends with prev:followed by the prior version’s hash (version 1 chains to 64 zeros). If a single character of any version had been altered since certification, the chain would not reproduce.