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Eureka’s aging and largely empty Bayshore Mall, which SFGate recently proffered as a metaphor for region-wide decline (rude), will soon be auctioned off to the highest bidder on the steps of the Humboldt County Courthouse.

Our esteemed crosstown rival Robert Schaulis of the Times-Standard broke the story yesterday, and Humboldt County Clerk/Recorder and Registrar of Voters Juan Cervantes confirmed that a notice of trustee sale has been filed.

The property, which is held by a Delaware entity called Bay Shore, LP, has accumulated nearly $39 million in debt, according to the sale notice. The mall’s previous owners agreed to a friendly foreclosure in 2021, and for the past few years it has been leased and managed by the Spinoso Real Estate Group, based in Syracuse, New York.

It’s been a rough couple of decades for indoor shopping malls as online retail has steadily eroded the consumer base for brick-and-mortar businesses, and anyone who’s recently ventured into the Bayshore Mall’s internal corridors can attest to its status as a ghost mall — or close to it.

We submit the following video, in which a group of young content creators waltzed in with a large TV under an arm and video game console in a DoorDash bag just to see if they could plug the setup into a floor outlet and play a full game of Wii Bowling before being stopped by security.

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Anyway, the trustee sale will be held outside the Fifth Street entrance of the Humboldt County Courthouse on April 17 at 10 a.m.