"It may be a dead mall with almost no tenants left inside the official closing is apparently this weekend but thanks to a nonprofit dedicated to the revitalization of downtown, one side of the former Westfield mall is getting a massive photographic mural. Yes, the final tenants are packing up and shipping out as of Sunday or Monday, according to a report earlier this week, but the SF Centre mall won't just feature a wall of darkened windows, at least on the Mission Street side."
"The Downtown Development Corporation (DDC), a nonprofit created late last year seemingly at the behest of Mayor Daniel Lurie (though he's not directly involved) and devoted to advancing his vision for revitalizing San Francisco's downtown through public-private partnerships, has partnered here with the Institute for Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA) and the Yerba Buena Partnership to bring a large mural from Indigenous artist Jeffrey Gibson to the glass-walled facade of the mall facing Mission Street."
SF Centre mall is largely vacant and officially closing this weekend, with final tenants packing up as of Sunday or Monday. The Downtown Development Corporation (DDC), created late last year seemingly at the behest of Mayor Daniel Lurie though he is not directly involved, partnered with the Institute for Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICA) and the Yerba Buena Partnership to install a large photographic mural by Indigenous artist Jeffrey Gibson on the mall's Mission Street glass facade. The mural uses stills from Gibson's 2022 video piece and combines modernist abstraction with Indigenous patterning to emphasize nature's power and Earth's beauty, enlivening a downtrodden tourist walkway.
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