Homeless people are not gathering in Union Square in great numbers. Have you seen the number of police cars there?
You can't build a downtown with little to no housing, fill it with bad restaurants, and then say no one's coming
No one was going to Macy's even pre-pandemic except tourists
I always had to explain to my European and Asian friends that American downtowns are not... downtowns you think of. SF downtown was already underwhelming before any of these breathless stories