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The Manilatown Series (2005) is a series of documentaries and short films written and directed by Curtis Choy that traces the eventual rebuilding of the I-Hotel. [18] I Hotel (2010), a book by Karen Tei Yamashita, uses the I-Hotel as a setting for many of the ten interconnected novellas which tell stories from the time period of 1968 to 1977. [19]
In 2013, the San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward metropolitan statistical area (San Francisco MSA) had the second lowest percentage of workers who commuted by private automobile (69.8 percent), with 7.6 percent of area workers traveling via bus.
By December 2012, average hourly parking rates had dropped by 14 cents from $2.73 to $2.59, SFMTA's revenue from parking citations dropped from 45% to 20% of total parking revenue, and 6% of the new meters charged 25¢ an hour. [8] A March 2014 study found that SFpark met its 60–80% occupancy goal and that cruising for parking is down by 50%. [9]
The Westin St. Francis, formerly known as St. Francis Hotel, is a hotel located on Powell and Geary Streets in San Francisco, adjacent to the whole western edge of Union Square. The two 12-story south wings of the hotel were built in 1904, and the double-width north wing was completed in 1913, initially as apartments for permanent guests. [ 5 ]
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 ...
The building was completed in 1989, and contains 1,500 hotel rooms. [4] The original architectural firm Zeidler Partnership Architects was replaced by DMJM architect Anthony J Lumsden, who gave the building its overall architectural style. [5] The San Francisco Marriott is the second tallest hotel in San Francisco, after Hilton San Francisco ...
San Francisco International Airport, commonly referred to by its airport code, SFO (with each of its letters pronounced individually) is the primary international airport serving the San Francisco Bay Area. It is the second-busiest airport in California, after Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and the 29th-busiest in the world.
Hilton San Francisco Financial District hotel website; Grundhauser, Eric (February 5, 2019). "21 'Ugly' Buildings That Aren't Ugly at All". Atlas Obscura. "Clement Chen Jr.; International Architect". Los Angeles Times. February 25, 1988 "Clement Chen Jr". San Francisco Examiner. February 24, 1988