A San Francisco architect has a kinda crazy idea for filling the former Westfield mall in Downtown that he thinks might just work. Forget Mayor London Breed’s idea for a soccer stadium, he says. Let’s go for Legoland.
Mark Hogan, the founder of the architecture firm OpenScope Studio, has been a thought leader in the revitalization of the city’s Downtown. Some of his concepts provided the foundation for the city’s legislation to help ease the process of office-to-residential conversion.
Now he’s turned some of his mental energy to helping fill retail vacancies.
Westfield pulled its name off the mall in June, and last month, Nordstrom officially closed its doors, leaving a huge hole across five floors of the mall at 865 Market St., one that Hogan sees as an opportunity.
“Ikea has opened up just down the street to big crowds and a lot of enthusiasm—Legoland is the obvious next…
