Following the failed bid to convert up to 286 of the hotel’s rooms to condominiums, the storied 591-room Fairmont San Francisco hotel is being put up for sale without an official asking price but we’d be willing to bet a bit of “guidance.”
∙ Fairmont Hotel Redevelopment Plan Checks Out Early [SocketSite]
∙ Fairmont San Francisco Luxury Hotel to Be Put on the Market [Bloomberg]
I think they should restore the tower to it’s original mid-century modern swankiness.
LOL, so the owners were just a bunch of whining crybabies. Don Fisher redux.
To his credit Fisher relented in the end and made a fantastic donation to the city. Though he didn’t get his way he certainly wasn’t a crybaby.
So what does Prince Alwaleed bin Talal say? As a half-owner he has to have some opinion.
Nose gone, face spited.
Um, how will the Nob Hill community feel when they realize that the center of hotels in SF has completely moved south, and the center of gravity for upscale living has ultimately moved west? Won’t be so good for long-term property values…flame away, but let’s chat in 10 years.
What would you call the architectural style of that lower building flying a white flag in the foreground?
@MOD
Style? Where?
I think the white flag is the universal sign of surrender, yes?
(On a more serious note, at least some of that building is a parking garage — I don’t remember how many floors are parking, and what the rest is currently used for. It is easy enough to find out, I just haven’t been there in a while.)
Pandora can buy it.
I’ve always liked this building and hope that it reclaims its prior glory!
Milk: He was going to make the donation anyway. Plus, he was a whiner by proxy, and ten times louder than the Fairmont folks. Don’t you remember the lengthy brou-ha-ha? He paid shills to do his crying for him, and cry they did.
What other city would have turned down this project?
^^^ only San Francisco.
And San Francisco is the only city that would call someone who has contributed so much to the economic and cultural growth of the city a cry baby.
How about acknowledging that fact that Don Fisher has grown a major corporation in this city – provided years of tax revenue to the city and employed thousands of citizens. He could have easily moved the company to another city (like everyone else eventually does).
@MOD: that style is “Brutalist Tiki Barge”