When Macy’s released its full list of stores scheduled to close this year on Friday, one notable location that wasn’t listed was the retail chain’s San Francisco flagship store in Union Square.

The New list of “poor performing” locations slated for closure next year came out almost a year after the retailer released in late February 2024 Confirmation that the Union Square Store was among the 30% of Macy’s stores the chain would close by 2027.

According to a report published by the Business Times following Macy’s initial announcement, the retailer plans to keep the 170 O’Farrell St. location operational until it finds a buyer for the property the company owns.

Union Square Macy’s is one of the retailer’s largest and oldest locations. Since opening in early March 1929, when the company was still operating under the name O’Connor, Moffat & Co., it has been a fixture in San Francisco’s popular shopping district for nearly a century.

At the time of the initial announcement, there was an outcry over the planned closure among city officials, including then-Mayor London Breed and the Union Square Alliance, a coalition of business owners within 27 blocks of the neighborhood.

“It’s hard to imagine Macy’s no longer being a part of our city,” Breed said in a statement.

San Francisco residents wondered why the holiday celebrations at Union Square last Christmas had a bittersweet undertone if it might be the last time that the Macy’s store would be at the center of the city’s Christmas celebrations.

However, the Union Square shopping district has experienced a number of problems since the pandemic, including the infamous retail crime spree in 2021 that targeted nearly a dozen businesses and prompted Breed and the San Francisco Police Department to do so Strengthening officer patrols And Sending community ambassadors.

Last summer, the neighborhood attracted even more unwanted attention with the arrival of 49ers rookie wide receiver Ricky Pearsall shot in the chest during an attempted armed robbery by a Tracy teenager who is confronted attempted murder and assault and other fees.

While the historic San Francisco Macy’s was spared, three Macy’s stores in the Bay Area were on the closure list released by the retailer. While the updated list noted that the Macy’s Furniture Gallery in San Mateo had already closed and moved to the Hillsdale Mall department store, the Newark Macy’s store at NewPark Mall and the Corte Matera Macy’s store were the two currently operating locations on the list that are about to close.

According to the list, Macy’s in downtown Sacramento and the store at Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights were the two other Northern California locations that would be among the stores closing in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, according to the list.