San Gabriel Square — Local services in San Gabriel

I remembered when this plaza first opened up with much fanfare. But most of the original stores that helped build this place up to what it became, are long gone except for a couple places. That wouldn't be such an issue, but even right now, there's not many businesses anchoring this place down, and there's all sorts of empty spaces and have stayed dormant for a while. Seriously? What's wrong with these greedy landlords that they're charging so much for rent, that they can't attract any new businesses? It's quite sad. Instead, their only money-maker is being paid to set up Tesla chargers on the side of the 99 Ranch, and taking out more parking spaces. Would say they were much needed, but they don't get the same traffic flow they used to. This place has gone in neglect for too long. You can tell, just by looking at their dried up fountains that are filled with dirt and trash. They don't even care enough to clean it up! You have a seafood restaurant that calls itself Five Stars, but hardly is --food is mediocre, and the service has been horrible for decades. Worst off, they simply borrow the Chinese name of the actual restaurant that used to exist, but really that group has gone belly-up and closed up their LA & OC operations long ago. Why should people go up to that restaurant? At the bottom of that part of the building, lies the Daiso, which is the only thing that helps bring in the rent. Why don't the landlords allow them to expand? The space between the different floors between the ground level up to the restaurant are just an empty wasteland, just like most of the other shops that lay empty on the wings of this center. Such a sad state of affairs compared to what it used to be, and a far-cry from the potential...

My first time to be this square is 6 years ago, this is a big and nice commercial area, there are AT&T, bakery, Daiso, 99 Ranch Market, Snack store, and a lots of very good Chinese restaurants in this place,I tried all of those stores and restaurants, they provide great service. By the way the parking lot is huge. But it is the COVID pandemic time, those restaurants are closed around one year, it’s so sad! Currently, I only go to the 99 Ranch Market for essential food, but I’ve seen the light at the end of the tunnel, the COVID cases dropped a lot now and more people got vaccinated overtimes, hopefully, we can get out of the pandemic sooner and all restaurants and stores can reopen, then all working people can come back!...

Love/Hate Relationship

I take 3 xanax's before attempting to enter this plaza. Luckily I have a ton of doctor friends to prescribe them because I go here a lot. On top of that I live above a Ralphs, so it's super easy to grab Xanax refills them whenever I need. Now if they would just build condos on top of San Gabriel Square so that I can avoid the physical act of coming and going from there that would be wonderful.

Don't know what I mean? Go there on any given Saturday or Sunday.

Why do I even go here, I love the food there, but can I just get teleported into the restaurant? I'll have to get Captain Kirk's USS Enterprise on speed dial so that Scotty can "beam me up!" to where ever I...