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The InterContinental San Francisco is a high-rise hotel at 888 Howard Street in the South of Market district of San Francisco, California. The 103.63 m (340 ft) 32-story hotel has 550 hotel rooms, and is operated by the InterContinental Hotels Group. [5] The hotel is next to the Moscone West Center, completed in 2003. The hotel opened on ...
The Mark Hopkins Hotel was built by George D. Smith [1] on the site of the old Mark Hopkins mansion, which had burned down following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.The hotel was dedicated in 1926, and the penthouse suite was rented exclusively to Daniel C. Jackling, reputedly at US$1,250 (equivalent to $22,000 in 2023) per month, [2] until he moved to his house in Woodside in 1936. [3]
Mining engineer and hotel investor George D. Smith purchased the Nob Hill site, removed the Art Association building, and began construction of a luxury hotel. The San Francisco architectural firm Weeks and Day designed the 19-story hotel, a combination of French château and Spanish ornamentation. The Hotel Mark Hopkins opened on December 4 ...
San Francisco, California, in the United States, has at least 482 high-rises, [1] 58 of which are at least 400 feet (122 m) tall. The tallest building is Salesforce Tower , which rises 1,070 ft (330 m) and as of April 2023 [update] is the 17th-tallest building in the United States . [ 2 ]
Equinox Restaurant, Hyatt Regency, San Francisco (open 1974 - 2007, reopening 2024 [17]) Florida. Garden Grill, Epcot, Walt Disney World Resort, Lake Buena Vista; Grand Plaza Hotel & Resort, Spinners overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, St. Pete Beach, Florida; The View at CK's at Marriott, Tampa International Airport, Tampa, Florida (closed) [18 ...
The Imperial Tea Court is a privately owned American company that provides fine teas from China, India, Taiwan and Japan, to the U.S. wholesale and retail markets. The Imperial Tea Court was the first authentic tearoom in San Francisco's Chinatown, [1] [2] [3] serving black tea, green tea, white tea, yellow tea, jasmine tea and puerh tea. [4]
The hotel was damaged in the earthquake, and it was immediately evacuated. The ensuing fire that destroyed much of San Francisco also claimed the Occidental, and the remaining structure soon was demolished. Salvage estimators valued the earthquake-damaged hotel before the fire at $285,000 and after the fire at $15,000, a loss of $270,000. [19]
The hotel was designed and built by architect and developer John Portman, and opened in 1987 as The Portman. It was sold on June 1, 1990 to Pan Pacific Hotels, a division of the Tokyu Corporation, which renamed it The Pan Pacific Hotel San Francisco. [3] On August 10, 2003, Tokyu sold the hotel to San Francisco-based Oxford Lodging [4] for $45 ...