{"id":430905,"date":"2026-08-12T17:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430905\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T17:50:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:50:23","slug":"hat-tip-lids-is-returning-to-union-square-after-closing-three-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/430905\/","title":{"rendered":"Hat tip: Lids is returning to Union Square after closing three years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published Aug. 11, 2026at2:14pm<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Lids, the sportswear retailer that sells hats for pretty much every major-league sports team, is opening at 50 Powell St. in Union Square, according to building permits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">The company, which has locations at malls across the U.S., offers a variety of flat-bills, snapbacks, and trucker caps, along with jerseys.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">Lids had a small location just up the street at 167 Powell that closed in 2023 as retailers were fleeing Union Square. Its return signals a renewed trust in the area\u2019s retail potential, boosters say.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-block break-words article-body text-left\">\u201cEverybody\u2019s coming back. Everyone that did leave is now looking to come back,\u201d said Colliers broker Julie Taylor, noting that it\u2019s been a busy summer for leasing in Union Square.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Aug. 11, 2026at2:14pm Lids, the sportswear retailer that sells hats for pretty much every major-league sports team,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[32135,3399,1969,101,103,102,104,106,105,5995],"class_list":["post-430905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-boom-loop","tag-clothing","tag-retail","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-union-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}