Many San Franciscans remember two things about the Emporium department store on Market Street: the classical facade that survived the 1906 earthquake and the glorious rotunda that shoppers browsed ...

Admission is free. It's a drama of death and rebirth. The innards of San Francisco's once- noble Emporium department store have crumbled unto dust, the raw material of that which comes next.

An embattled downtown San Francisco shopping center is being renamed and rehabbed after former owner Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield gave up the keys to the lender months ago. Signage will soon go up ...