Uniqlo Reportedly In Talks to Open a Downtown SF Store Again, Maybe in the Vacant Old Navy Space

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/25/uniqlo-reportedly-in-talks-to-open-a-downtown-sf-store-again-maybe-in-the-vacant-old-navy-space/After the flagship, three-story Union Square Uniqlo store closed in 2021 as that shopping district dove down the abyss, we’re now getting word that Uniqlo may want back into the downtown SF game, and might even be eyeing the vacant Old Navy. San Francisco’s pandemic retail apocalypse was already well underway when the three-story Union Square Uniqlo store closed in 2021, with that shopping district’s H&M and The Gap having already fallen on their swords. (This was when we were still social distancing, and almost no one was eligible to get the COVID vaccine yet.) And things in Union Square would only get much worse from there.