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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's
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.
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Copyright 2002 Hank Donat |