San Francisco’s downtown region saw the recent exodus of numerous retail entities, including the Westfield- owned San Francisco Centre mall after the departure of Nordstrom, but a glimmer of hope may be on the horizon thanks to Ingka Centres’ development plans in the city’s Mid-Market neighborhood. Ingka Centres, the Netherlands-based mall-management sister company to IKEA, purchased a six-story 256,000-s.f. glass building in the struggling neighborhood back in 2020 in order to create a new entertainment-themed mall, tentatively titled Meeting Place. More