SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Restaurant In Scala's Bistro Space at Union Square Will Be French, Led By Roland Passot's Left Bank Team The longtime home of Scala's Bistro at the hotel formerly known as the Sir Francis Drake will be reborn shortly as a French brasserie from the Left Bank Brasserie team, possibly called Left Bank.
SF News Sir Francis Drake Hotel to Reopen With New Name: The Beacon Grand The Sir Francis Drake Hotel in SF's Union Square, closed since the start of the pandemic, will reopen next month fully rebranded and renovated, under a new name and with new owners.
SF News Proposed Mint Plaza ‘Pod Hotel’ Hits a Snag, as Rival Pod Hotel Group Claims Trademark Infringement An odd “pod hotel” concept may be forced back to the drawing board with their Mint Plaza plans, because another hotel firm reportedly claims they’ve trademarked the idea and no one else can use it.
Business & Tech Legal Battle Over SF's Short-Lived Virgin Hotel Heads to Trial In February The legal fight between the owner of the property at 250 Fourth Street in San Francisco's SoMa district and Virgin Hotels will go to trial in early February, and it remains to be seen whether a hotel will ultimately reopen in that building ever again.
SF News Sir Francis Drake Hotel to Spiff Up and Open Under New Management, But Won't Reopen 'til 2022 The beefeaters may or may not be back out front of Union Square’s lux and historic Sir Francis Drake Hotel, as the joint was quietly sold off for $158 million in April, and is undergoing an "extensive renovation" before it reopens.
SF News SF Plans to Buy Four More Hotels to Shelter Homeless Population Four hotels and a total of 368 units will be opened as permanent housing for the unsheltered population, as that sweet Prop. C “homeless tax” money starts rolling in.
SF News New 11-Story, 195-Room Hotel Set to Open In Union Square In October A new Dutch-owned hotel chain, citizenM, is opening a 195-room Union Square hotel this fall as part of a five-hotel opening push in the U.S. — and it's a rare example of a new-build hotel in the area, on a lot that's been otherwise vacant for two decades.
SF News New Boutique Hotel The Alton Readies for Opening in Old Holiday Inn at Fisherman's Wharf (With New Restaurant on the Way) Fisherman's Wharf is gaining a new boutique hotel managed by the Kimpton group, in one half of what was formerly a Holiday Inn at 495 Beach Street.
SF News Mid-Market Condo/Hotel Project Delayed; Hotel and Restaurant Won't Open Until 2022 The 408,000-square-foot development at 950-974 Market Street, which began construction in 2018 and was slated to be completed this year, is delayed — in part because of the pandemic and the state of tourism.
SF News SF Supervisors Propose Expanding SF's Hotel Program to Shelter 500 More Homeless After FEMA's announcement that approved shelter-in-place (SIP) hotels would be entirely reimbursed with federal funds, five SF supervisors have now introduced legislation to expand the City's SIP hotel program and house some 500 more homeless San Franciscans.
SF Politics Fox News Apoplectic That FEMA Will Fund SF Homeless Hotels, Unaware This Started Under Trump The right-wing news network’s outrage that “Biden may force American taxpayers to foot bill” for shelter-in-place hotel rooms fails to acknowledge that Trump forced taxpayers to foot the same bill.
SF Politics Hotels-for-Homeless Program Begins Wind-Down Next Week With 500 Moving Out San Francisco's lauded but temporary program of housing vulnerable and elderly homeless individuals in hotel rooms during the pandemic is set to wind down over the next seven to eight months, and next week the first wave of hotel closures begins.
Business & Tech Some SF Hotels Reopen to Accommodate Wildfire Evacuees at a Discount San Francisco's largely vacant hotels have an opportunity both to provide shelter to Bay Area residents displaced from their homes due to wildfire evacuation orders, and to make some revenue after months of nearly zero in the process.
SF News SF Dept of Public Health Says It's Distributing Drugs and Alcohol to Homeless in Hotel Quarantine SF officials have confirmed that they are trying to meet homeless addicts "where they are" when they are being put up in hotels as part of COVID mitigation measures — and that means giving alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and methadone to those who need it.
SF Politics Battle Continues Between SF Supes and Mayor After Unanimous Board Vote to House All Homeless in Hotels The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, as expected, unanimously voted to approve an emergency ordinance that calls on the city to put all currently homeless individuals in leased hotel rooms within two weeks.
Business & Tech San Francisco To Press Hotels Into Service For Healthcare Workers and Homeless The city of San Francisco is preparing for a surge in coronavirus cases, and is trying to protect both the homeless population and the families of healthcare workers through the use of currently empty hotel rooms.
SF News Fisherman's Wharf Holiday Inn May Be Transforming Into 516-Room Boutique Hotel An aging Holiday Inn hotel property at Fisherman's Wharf, which has already half changed over to a new boutique brand called Hotel Caza, is looking to add 174 new rooms over what's now a surface parking lot.
Business & Tech Hyatt Regency Converts Hallways Overlooking Embarcadero Into Tiny Rooms The grandly Brutalist and angular Hyatt Regency at the foot of Market Street has 15 new guest rooms thanks to some underutilized, oversized hallways that had some excellent Bay views.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Rooftop Bar Everdene Opens Tonight At Virgin's New SoMa Hotel The new Virgin Hotels San Francisco opened in February, and tonight, April 3, is the debut of its swanky new rooftop bar — chilly weather be damned.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Virgin Hotels SF and Commons Club Restaurant Debut In SoMa The long-awaited Virgin Hotels San Francisco has just opened its doors at 250 Fourth Street, and in a couple of weeks it will have a rooftop bar.Tuesday marked the official opening of
SF News Skinny 25-Story 'Micro Guestroom' Hotel Planned For SoMa Site San Diego-based J Street Hospitality is looking to build a 185-room, 25-story hotel on a small parcel at 36 Tehama Street.
SF News Boutique Hotel With Roof Deck Planned For 18th Street In The Castro Plans for a modern new hotel in the heart of #TheCastro #CastroSF #RealestateSF https://t.co/at2tGEMvMC pic.twitter.com/qyHedYLn64— SocketSite (@SocketSite) July 24, 2017 A four-story, 12-room boutique hotel is in
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink New Mid-Market Hotel Lands James Beard-Nominated Chef Jason Franey The Proper Hotel, which will be making its debut at Seventh and Market this August, has just announced the hiring of chef Jason Franey to oversee the four restaurants at the property including
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SoMa Hotel Under Construction ID'd As Virgin Hotel, With Rooftop Bar Confirmed Back in January, I alerted you to the hotel construction boom that's bringing SF four new hotels this year, three of which appeared to be arriving with rooftop bars an exciting bit of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four New Hotels Are Opening In SF This Year, Three With Rooftop Bars It's been a while since there has been a boom in San Francisco hotels, and with the exception of the Viceroy makeovers of the Hotel Zetta (formerly the Hotel Milano) four years ago
