Scaling just discovered heights in ...

Scaling just discovered heights in vertical retailing

San Francisco middle redefines the rules of attraction with a "vertical Versailles" and a Nordstrom in the firmament The skeptics were legion when looks Angeles-based developer Gordon Co. unveiled plans for San Francisco midmost point the Bay City's first vertical shopping mall--and the same seemingly bent on flouting the dominations of smart retailing.

Conventional wisdom held that the upscale center would be sorely at remainings with its south-of-Market-Street location near the city's destitute Tenderloin district. Something of a great retail divide