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The Metreon is a shopping center located in downtown San Francisco, California, United States at the corner of 4th Street and Mission Street. It is a four-story 350,000 sq ft (33,000 m 2 ) building built over the corner of the underground Moscone Center convention center.
The floor was sloped for the theater and had to be excavated for 2-3 years creating a storage basement for the incoming store The Castro Theatre originally opened at 479 Castro Street in 1910. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The building was later remodeled into a retail store in the mid-1920s after the larger Castro Theater was built up the street.
Originally developed by Sheldon Gordon (co-developer of The Forum Shops at Caesars and Beverly Center), the nine-story mall opened in October 1988 as San Francisco Shopping Centre with approximately 500,000 square feet (46,000 m 2) of space, the then-largest Nordstrom store (350,000 square feet (33,000 m 2)) on the top several floors, the first spiral escalator in the United States, and a ...
The V. C. Morris Gift Shop is located at 140 Maiden Lane in downtown San Francisco, California, United States, and was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. The store was used by Wright as a physical prototype , or proof of concept for the circular ramp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.
The Shops at Tanforan is a regional shopping mall in San Bruno, California, United States. It is located on the San Francisco Peninsula, 10 miles (16 km) south of San Francisco city limits. The site was originally used as a horse racing track from 1899 until 1964, when the grandstand was destroyed by fire.
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The movie theater, the first business to open in the mall in 1969 as the three-screen United Artists Movie Theater, [2] was renovated at the turn of the 21st century and became Camera 7; [5] it closed in April 2017 [6] and reopened in April 2018 as the Pruneyard Cinemas, with cocktails delivered to patrons' seats and the Cedar Room restaurant ...
In addition to the four anchor stores, other amenities upon opening included an ice skating rink, a food court, and a multiplex movie theater. [3] In 1984, Liberty House closed nine of its ten California stores due to restructuring after poor sales the previous year. The only one to remain open was the Fashion Island store. [4]