Bay Area's empty-storefronts plague: Blight goes far beyond downtowns

Chain linked fences surround the site of a shuttered furniture store in Santa Clara, Calif., on March 22, 2023. The man on the right later entered the site through an opening in the fence. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group)

By Ethan Baron | ebaron@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group

UPDATED: April 3, 2023 at 7:02 AM PDT

How bad is the vacant-storefront problem? No one knows, because no one's counting.

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Originally Published: April 1, 2023 at 6:15 AM PDT

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