The owner of two major hotels in downtown San Francisco is preparing to give the properties up to foreclosure as the city’s downtown decline continues, with retail shops leaving the area amid crime and homelessness.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday:
The owner of two of San Francisco’s biggest hotels — Hilton San Francisco Union Square and Parc 55 — has stopped mortgage payments and plans to give up the two properties, in another sign of disinvestment in hard-hit downtown.
Park Hotels & Resorts said Monday that it stopped making payments on a $725 million loan due in November and expects the “ultimate removal of these hotels” from its portfolio. The company said it would “work in good faith with the loan’s servicers to determine the most effective path forward.”
The 1,921-room Hilton is the city’s largest hotel and the 1,024-room Parc 55 is the fourth-largest, and together they account for around 9% of the city’s hotel stock. The hotels could potentially be taken over by lenders or sold to a new group as part of the foreclosure process. [b]CHINESE ? BR VG ?
San Francisco has been suffering an exodus of major retail stores from the Union Square area over the past several months. The city also lost residents during the pandemic, and there are fewer commuters due to a shift to work-from-home in the tech industry.
This used to be a beautiful city years ago. I won’t stay there anymore. Last time we drove some foreign visitors through it, the open use of crack or whatever it is was mind boggling.
Union Square, the trolley car, the history is going down the drain.
This hotel is the largest in the City and was 19% of their sales, dropped down to 3%. Convention volume not returning, well hell no, who wants to see that.
As California goes so goes the nation. A decline in process. Hate seeing it.
h/t Dee49
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