SF News Massive Hilton Hotel Near Union Square Could Become Housing, After Sale Goes Through San Francisco's largest hotel, which is also one of the country's largest hotels outside of Las Vegas, the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, is headed for auction. And there are some hints that a buyer could convert it into apartment housing.
Business & Tech Hilton Taking Over Mid-Market's Line Hotel After only two years as the boutique Line Hotel, the 12-story hotel portion of the building at 950 Market Street that also houses the Serif condo development is going to become a Hilton property as of December.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Moody New Southern Restaurant Debuts Next Week at the Jay Hotel In Downtown SF The former Le Meridien hotel on Clay Street near Embarcadero Center was reborn earlier this year as The Jay, a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel. And now, the hotel's main fine-dining restaurant opens next week as Prelude, a Southern-inspired prix-fixe spot with California style.
SF News SingleThread, Auberge du Soleil, Madrona Inn Among Bay Area Hotels Honored In First Michelin Hotel Guide The Michelin organization has just released its first ever guide to and rankings of US hotels, and like the Michelin Guides to restaurants dole out stars, the new guide has given "key" rankings to 124 hotels across the country.
SF News Four Seasons Embarcadero Owner Reportedly Defaulting on Loan, Bank Might Foreclose You know it’s hard times in the luxury hospitality racket when even the owner of a Four Seasons hotel can’t pay their bills, as the Four Seasons Embarcadero owner reportedly hasn’t made their loan payments in three months.
SF News FEMA Tries to Renege on $114M In Reimbursements to San Francisco For Homeless Hotel Rooms The federal government appears to be trying to get out of a large chunk of its promised reimbursements to California cities for shelter-in-place hotels that were rented out to house the unhoused in the first two years of the pandemic.
SF News Phoenix Hotel Property Hits Market For $15M, Could Be Redeveloped as 450 Residential Units The beloved, retro, SoCal-motel-feeling Phoenix Hotel, which has always been a charmingly out-of-place oasis in between Civic Center and the Tenderloin, may not be long for this world as the property has just hit the market for $15 million.
SF News Owner of Tenderloin Best Western Who Installed Sprinklers to Soak Homeless Wishes City Would Just Buy His Hotel The owner of the beleaguered Best Western hotel at Eddy and Polk streets in SF's Tenderloin would really like the city to just buy the place already and turn it into homeless housing, because he says it's not doing much business as a hotel.
Business & Tech Two of SF's Largest Hotels Head Toward Receivership, Will Have a Year to Find Buyer Two enormous hotels in downtown SF, the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the Parc 55, will likely be bought up by a new owner or owners within a year, and they are now set to go into receivership shortly.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF Hotel Investor Reopening Three Long-Closed SoMa Hotels CA Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing a school district over its policy surrounding trans students; Santa Clara police have made an arrest in a stabbing at an In-N-Out following a Niners-Raiders game; and a hotel investor is reopening three SoMa hotels that have been closed for three years.
Business & Tech Four More East Bay Chain Hotels Being Surrendered to Lenders In Nationwide Loan Default This is not just a Bay Area “doom loop” story, as Dallas-based Ashford Hospitality Trust is handing back the keys to 19 U.S. hotels, four of which are in Oakland, Newark, and Walnut Creek.
Business & Tech Hotel Expert: Hilton Owner's Declaration on Loan Might Just Be Negotiating Tactic It was one of the biggest local stories of the week, but is the owner of the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 hotels just negotiating with its bank by publicly saying they're defaulting on their loan?
SF News One Block of Taylor Street In Tenderloin Shut Down Sunday Amid Standoff With Armed Woman In Hotel A suspect who was threatening neighbors in a Tenderloin/Union Square hotel with a knife caused a block of Taylor Street to be cordoned off by the SFPD for several hours on Sunday.
SF News Nob Hill’s Century-Old Huntington Hotel Has Been Bought (Out of Foreclosure) Closed for the entire pandemic, and foreclosed and in default for the last six months, Nob Hill’s 101-year-old Huntington Hotel has new owners who apparently bought it on the cheap and claim they will make it “the single finest luxury hotel in San Francisco.”
SF News City's Bill For Shelter-In-Place Hotel Damages Rises With $2.9M Settlement For Hotel Tilden While the City of San Francisco continues to negotiate with hotel owners over what the costs of turning their hotels into ersatz homeless shelters during the pandemic turned out to be, one more hotel has just walked away with a considerable damage settlement.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Downtown Four Seasons (the Former Loews Regency/Mandarin Oriental) to Open New Italian Restaurant, Orafo A new hotel restaurant is coming soon to the ground-floor space at the Four Seasons Embarcadero — the hotel formerly known as the Loews Regency which is not actually on the Embarcadero, but at 222 Sansome.
SF News SF Hotels That Served as Pandemic Homeless Shelters Continue Seeking Millions In Damages From City The full accounting of what it cost the city of San Francisco to provide emergency shelter in the form of hotel rooms to homeless individuals during the height of the pandemic is still likely many months away.
SF News SF Tourism Honchos Celebrate a Banner Week, With Dreamforce, Folsom, and Portola Festival Packing Hotels Local tourism industry officials are crowing over the most lucrative week they’ve had in a couple years, and while every weekend won’t have this many events, there is optimism for a booming holiday season.
SF News The Century-Old Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill Has Closed, Owners In Default The Huntington Hotel on Nob Hill, which most recently had been rebranded as the Huntington again after spending four years as the Scarlet Huntington Hotel, is now closed until further notice along with its longtime restaurant, Big 4.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Mid-Market's LINE Hotel and One of Its Two Restaurants Open Next Week The delayed but much anticipated new hotel on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets, the LINE, finally opens its doors next week, and with it comes a new rooftop restaurant/lounge, and a new fine-dining restaurant as well as a lobby bar.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurants, Including Rooftop Venue, Announced for Mid-Market's LINE Hotel There's finally some movement over at The LINE hotel, in the condo-hotel building known also as Serif, and 950-974 Market Street — and we have some vague details about the rooftop bar/restaurant going in about a block away from Charmaine's.
SF News As Shelter-In-Place Hotel Program Winds Down, Residents and Managers Look Back on Whether it Actually Worked San Francisco's Shelter-in-Place Hotel program is roughly 75% finished, with the remaining 25% to expire in the weeks to come. Let’s check in on the statistics — and people — who can say whether it was effective.
SF News Warriors’ Bizarre Cruise-Ship-Shaped Hotel at Chase Center Is Now ‘Indefinitely Delayed’ Is the COVID-19 era really the best time for a cruise-ship themed hotel and condo project? Perhaps the Warriors are having second thoughts, as they just announced this very strange Chase Center add-on is “indefinitely delayed.”
SF News Former Hotel Vitale Reopens Wednesday as 1 Hotel San Francisco, Following Major Remodel and Restaurant Makeover The SF hotel business is starting to boom again, and as the summer travel season kicks off, a new luxury hotel is making its debut on the Embarcadero, in the property that had been the Hotel Vitale since 2005.
SF News With Shelter-In-Place Hotel Program Winding Down, Some Hotels Are Suing the City for Damages The owners of multiple hotels that were leased by the city for its pandemic housing program are reportedly filing or planning to file lawsuits over damages they claim were done to their buildings as a result of the program.
