Hyatt Regency San Francisco

{{Short description|Hotel in California, United States}}

{{distinguish|Hyatt Regency San Francisco Airport}}

{{Use American English|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox hotel

| hotel_name = Hyatt Regency San Francisco

| logo =

| logo_width =

| image = Hyatt Regency San Francisco (110103874).jpg

| caption = Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 2021

| location = United States

| pushpin_map = United States San Francisco Central#California#USA

| address = Five Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, California

| chain = Global Hyatt Corporation

| coordinates = {{coord|37.79432|-122.39584|region:US-CA_type:landmark|display=title,inline}}

| opening_date = 1973

| developer = Trammell Crow
David Rockefeller
John C. Portman Jr.

| architect = John Portman & Associates

| operator = Hyatt Hotels Corporation

| owner = Sunstone Hotel Investors

| number_of_rooms = 804

| number_of_suites = Balcony Suite
Embarcadero Suite

| number_of_restaurants= 2

| floor_area = {{convert|863400|sqft|abbr=on}}

| floors = 20

| height = {{convert|77|m|abbr=on}}

| parking =

| website = https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/california/hyatt-regency-san-francisco/sfors

| footnotes = {{Cite web |url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/118752 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183452/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/118752 |url-status=usurped |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |title=Emporis building ID 118752 |work=Emporis}}{{SkyscraperPage|34877}}{{Structurae|20021850}}

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Hyatt Regency San Francisco is a hotel located at the foot of Market Street and The Embarcadero in the financial district of San Francisco, California. The hotel is a part of the Embarcadero Center development by Trammell Crow, David Rockefeller, and John Portman.

History

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The San Francisco Chronicle's architecture critic John King has described the 1973 building as a "temple of hermetic urbanism" in a "self-contained sci-fi" style that by 2016 had become "dated", albeit remaining "still visually dazzling, in a futuristic sort of way."{{Cite web|url=http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Sci-fi-hotel-goes-from-daring-to-dated-in-43-years-6794574.php?t=10bbea7aaa3e72cb18|title=Sci-fi hotel goes from daring to dated in 43 years|last=King|first=John|date=2016-01-29|website=San Francisco Chronicle|access-date=2016-04-11}} The Regency Club Lounge was once the Equinox, a rooftop revolving restaurant, but is now an elite club for certain hotel guests offering 360-degree views of the city and the bay. The atrium holds the Guinness world record (as of 2024) for the largest hotel lobby, with a length of 107 meters, width of 49 meters and height of 52 meters (15 stories).{{Cite web|url=http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/life/22-travel-world-records-039346/|title=Guinness World Records 2012: Travel records|last=Knowles|first=Bija|date=2011-09-15|website=travel.cnn.com|access-date=2016-04-11}}

The hotel has a large modernist sculpture Eclipse, by Charles O Perry that sits in the lobby.{{cite news |last1=Grimes |first1=William |title=Charles O. Perry Dies at 81; Sculptor Inspired by Geometry |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/11/arts/design/11perry.html |access-date=21 September 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=11 February 2011}}

The hotel was sold by Strategic Hotel Capital LLC, in January 2007 for close to {{US$|200 million}} to Dune Capital Management and DiNapoli Capital Partners – roughly $250,000 for each of the hotel's 802 rooms.{{cite news | author=Ryan Tate | title=S.F. Hyatt Regency sells for $200M | url=http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2007/01/08/daily3.html | work=San Francisco Business Times | date=January 8, 2007 | accessdate=February 1, 2010}} In December 2013, the hotel was purchased by Aliso-Viejo, CA-based Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc., for $262M.{{Cite news |title= Sunstone Seals $262M Deal For San Francisco Hyatt Hotel |publisher= Law360.com |url= http://www.law360.com/articles/493000/sunstone-seals-262m-deal-for-san-francisco-hyatt-hotel |date=December 3, 2013 |accessdate= October 7, 2015}}

References

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Further reading

  • {{cite journal | last=Doar | first=D.| title=L'hôtel "Hyatt Regency" à San Francisco (Etats-Unis) | journal=Acier = Stahl = Steel | volume= 39 | publisher=Centre Belgo-Luxembourgeois d’Information de l’Acier | pages=199–205 | language=fr |date=May 1974}}