The list of major brands announcing their departure from downtown San Francisco keeps growing as the city continues to cast a wide net for innovative solutions that will bring people back to the ghost town in the heart of the city.
Last week, AT&T announced it will close its flagship store in downtown San Francisco on August 1. The telecom giant said retail employees impacted by the closure of the 1 Powell Street store would be offered jobs at other AT&T outlets in the city, SF Gate reported.
The outlet is located in a landmark building in what used to be a prime downtown retail location: directly behind the Power Street BART station. The historic eight-story landmark was built in 1921 as the replacement headquarters for Bank of America after the 1906 earthquake.
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