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Lowe subsidiary Destination Hotels assumed management, renaming the property The Argent Hotel. [9] Following its sale in 2005 to Highgate Holdings and Whitehall Street Global Real Estate Partnership, [10] the hotel underwent a $28.3 million renovation in early 2007 and was renamed The Westin Market Street San Francisco on April 12, 2007. [11]
According to the San Francisco Police Department, there were 59 murders in the city in 2016, an annual total that marked a 13.5% increase in the number of homicides (52) from 2015. [6] In November 2021, San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s office stated that about 2% of auto burglaries in San Francisco result in an arrest. [7]
Mark Dietrich, a 51-year-old retail analyst, has positioned himself as an anti-crime crusader defending his Richmond district neighborhood in San Francisco. (Rachel Scheier / For The Times)
The name "Combat Zone" was popularized through a series of exposé articles on the area Jean Cole wrote for the Boston Daily Record in the 1960s. [1] The moniker described an area that resembled a war zone both because of its well-known crime and violence, and because many soldiers and sailors on shore leave from the Charlestown (Boston) Navy Yard frequented the many strip clubs and brothels ...
October 10, 1975 (Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, 2905 Hyde Street: Fisherman's Wharf: Flat-bottomed scow schooner built in 1891 to haul goods on and around San Francisco Bay and river delta areas.
The hotel opened on May 25, 1964, as the San Francisco Hilton.Built at a cost of $29 million [1] and designed by architect William B. Tabler, the 18-story, 1200-room structure was known as a motel within a hotel [7] due to a design featuring a series of ramps in the middle of the building, allowing guests to drive their cars directly to seven of the hotel's lower floors and park adjacent to ...
In 1923, the hotel was renamed Hotel Ambassador. In 1929, the theater was converted to a garage. [3] True crime author Miriam Allen deFord was a noted resident from 1936 until her death in 1975. From 1978 to 1996, the hotel was managed by Hank Wilson, a San Francisco LGBT activist, [4] who made the hotel a model for harm reduction housing.
In 1925, yet another map still shows streetcar tracks on Washington Street within Boston, ending downtown at Essex Street. By 1953 they were only in use from Forest Hills to Egleston (by the 40 route, bus substituted December 18, 1955) and from Dudley to Northampton Street (by the 47 route, bustituted September 13, 1953, and the 10 route, bus ...