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Meikles Limited (ZSE: MEIK) is a conglomerate in Zimbabwe that owns, among other businesses, multiple luxury hotels, Barbours Department Store, Meikles department stores, Meikles Mega Market stores, Meikles supermarkets, Tanganda Tea. The company formerly owned the historic Hyatt Regency Harare The Meikles Hotel in central Harare.
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 ...
In 1968, Milton Meyer & Co., a real-estate company, issued eviction notices to the I-Hotel tenants, with plans to demolish and replace the I-Hotel with a parking garage. [1] This demolition would happen concurrently with the destruction of ten blocks of low-cost housing, restaurants, barber shops, markets, clubs and other Filipino community ...
Includes City Hall, Civic Auditorium, Old Public Library, Earl Warren Building, Old Federal Building, War Memorial Opera House, Veterans Building and the Civic Center Powerhouse 158: San Francisco Fire Department Engine Co. Number 2: San Francisco Fire Department Engine Co. Number 2
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]
The hotel was sold to ANA Hotels for $100 million in 1988 and renamed ANA Hotel San Francisco. [7] Scenes in David Fincher 's 1997 film The Game were shot in the hotel. ANA sold it, along with their Washington, DC hotel, to Lowe Enterprises on September 29, 1998 for $270 million. [ 8 ]
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The new hotel, intended to be "dry" (serving no alcoholic beverages) in the "sinful" city, [9] was to be named after William Taylor, a Methodist Episcopal street preacher and missionary who formed the first Methodist church in San Francisco. The large church was named Temple Methodist Episcopal Church, or simply "Temple Methodist".