Scotch & Soda, a Dutch clothing chain, has closed its shop in San Francisco’s Union Square area. But the Downtown retail hub has welcomed a new hot yoga studio, and a high-end Spanish shoe shop plans to move in this fall.
It's unclear when, exactly, the Scotch & Soda store at 59 Grant Ave. went dark, but a notice taped to the window as of Saturday directed customers to the next-nearest location in San Jose’s Santana Row.
The closure comes on the heels of the Amsterdam-based fashion retailer’s bankruptcy in the Netherlands and its acquisition a week later by brand management firm Bluestar Alliance.
Bluestar Alliance didn’t respond to The Standard’s request for comment. But the company announced earlier this year that it was closing several U.S. locations that were underperforming.
An online directory that listed 39 U.S. Scotch & Soda locations this spring now lists only 29, including the Union Square store in San Francisco and those in six other California cities.
Scotch & Soda once had two stores in the city, the one on Grant Avenue and another at 2031 Fillmore St. The Fillmore Street location is also now closed.
Meanwhile, Hot 8 Yoga—a favorite of actress Jessica Alba’s—opened its 12th U.S. location just east of Union Square this month at 248 Sutter St.
Additionally, as San Francisco loses high-end shoe retailer Sabah in the Lower Haight, another luxury shoe brand expects to settle into the heart of the city.
According to a sign advertising its impending move to downtown, a Spanish purveyor of fine shoes called Carmina plans to open a store on Geary Street between Kearney Street and Grant Avenue this fall.