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Bridges over Jessie Street from the Emporium led to offices and warehouse space. They are here today, gone tomorrow. |
In 1996,
the Emporium, then San Francisco's oldest department
store, closed its doors for good. The Emporium building was constructed
at 835-865 Market Street in 1896 and rebuilt in 1908. For a few years following
the demise of the Emporium, the building housed Macy's furniture department.
The vacant complex of buildings that made up the Emporium are the subject
of a $500 million redevelopment project that will include a 375,000 sq.
ft. Bloomingdale'ss store, as well as 237,000 sq. ft. of office space and
a luxury hotel. As with the City of Paris
department store 20 years earlier, architectural and environmental preservationists
were unable to block the Bloomingdale's project, which was green lighted
by a court in October, 2002. I Magnin and
The White House are also famed department
stores of San Francisco's yesteryear. Detail
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Copyright 2002 Hank Donat |