Then the pandemic changed those plans.
“As a result of COVID, we have changed our priorities and are focused on reinvesting in our current restaurants,” a Mina Group marketing officer wrote in Chronicle. Estiatorio Ornos, Mina Family Kitchen, Warriors star Stephen Curry’s partner Aisha Curry’s International Smoke and more.
While Mina Group pulled the plug on Thrive City’s Anchor Food project, other companies announced in 2019 successfully launched shops. These include the 10,000-square-foot Warriors Merchandise Shop and full-service Chase Bank storefront, a branch of burger restaurant Gotts Roadside, Harmonic Brewing’s taproom, and an outpost of Instagram-worthy Pan-Asian restaurant Dumpling. Includes base. time.
A portrait of Michael Mina in the bungalow kitchen. His Restaurant His group no longer opens a food hall near the Chase Center.
Santiago Mejia/The ChronicleNamed after Warriors sponsor Kaiser Permanente’s ‘Thrive’ slogan, the opening at Thrive City is named after the reported $295 million rights deal, which Gotts Clay Walker, Roadside president of Yahoo!, said it wouldn’t be an easy feat. “The construction project took longer, so it cost more,” Walker said. “We had already started hiring and had to put the brakes on that process.”
Thrive City’s location, Gotts Roadside, does well in the evenings, with basketball games and concerts at the Chase Center. However, on days when there are no events or during lunch time, it is slow.
“It’s hard to achieve critical mass when Thrive City isn’t thriving,” he said.
Walker is disappointed to learn from Chronicle that Mina’s plans for a famous food hall have been abandoned.
“It’s a shame,” he said. “Right now, there are three foodservice concepts that operate outside the arena.
A Warriors representative said that despite the cancellation of Food Hall, Thrive City development is “continuous and fluid”, with year-round programming and activities at the Plaza still on the books. added that there are no plans to replicate the proposed food hall plan.
A Warriors representative told Chronicle, “Like many other businesses, the pandemic has altered our initial timelines, but we are actively compiling our dynamic and multi-faceted Thrive City portfolio and will continue to provide more information. I look forward to sharing.
“great amount of [Thrive City’s] The plan was put on hold,” said Rebecca Feynman, who is in the process of opening a wine bar called Guru Guru in Thrive City, in a previous interview. hope to be brought.
John Varna, who opened a Harmonic Brewing location in Thrive City last May, said the Warriors’ front office has been very helpful to tenants like him through the difficulties of the pandemic.
While the economy slows during the offseason, Tennant’s business was booming in the lead-up to the team’s NBA crown.
“We did an incredible amount of business during those games,” said Verna.
ESPN’s attendance report for the 2021-2022 season shows the Warriors played 41 home games at Mission Bay Arena, with 18,064 sold-out spectators each night and a total of 740,654 fans walking through the turnstiles. I was.
Debbie Zacharias, one of the partners at Ferry Plaza Wine Merchants, is preparing to open a wine bar and bottle shop in Thrive City called Mission Bay Wine Bar. She’s optimistic about Plaza’s growth, she said.
“When the Warriors were in the playoffs, it was really exciting to hang out at Gott’s and Dumpling Time and see what was going on in the square,” said Zacharias. “Losing Michael Mina wouldn’t be great for Chase Center. Hopefully they will figure out a way to make up for it.”
Mario Cortez (he/he) is a staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle. Email: [email protected]