Del Mar retail / CRE update

If it's a Sunday with nothing happening, it must be time for another Del Mar CRE update. The last update is here, and earlier updates are here, here, and here.

Let's start on a positive note: the long-awaited Three Dog Bakery finally opened.


And while there were no customers in the picture, I did see people in the store earlier in the day. It smelled delicious. If I were a dog with a credit card, I would have bought something.

That was the only good news of the day though.

Remember how the high-end Del Mar Plaza used to paint scenery over the windows of its vacancies?



Well, they've given up on that. And another one's gone...



And another one's gone...



Another one bites the dust!



And a few blocks to the south, more vacancies are popping up:





No more of the vacancies from earlier CRE updates appear to have been filled. At this rate, Del Mar is going to be a ghost town by race track season.