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San Francisco Marriott Marquis

The San Francisco Marriott Marquis is a 133 m 39-story skyscraper in the South of Market neighborhood of San Francisco, California. Situated at the intersection of Fourth and Mission Streets, across from the Metreon and Moscone Convention Center, the building is recognizable by the distinctive postmodern appearance of its high-rise tower. 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 Tower I.

History

The hotel was at the heart of the city of San Francisco's development of the central blocks in the South of Market area during the late 1970s and early 1980s.[6] The city had put out an invitation to property developers to come up with ideas for the area. Ten developers originally responded and the eventual proposal chosen - in October 1980 - was a joint effort by Marriott together with the Canadian property developers Olympia and York.[4]

The Marriott Marquis opened on October 17, 1989, the day of the Loma Prieta earthquake.[7] With better earthquake proofing than several nearby hotels, the building only lost a single window.[7]

2024 strike

On November 24, 2024, about 500 employees at the San Francisco Marriot Marquis, who are also members of UNITE HERE's Local 2 chapter, went on strike.[8][9] As of December 2, 2024, the strike remained ongoing, and was also expected to last past the upcoming holidays.[10] On December 24, 2024, a four-year labor agreement was ratified, thus bringing the strike to an end.[11]

In popular culture

Local newspaper columnist Herb Caen complained that reflections from the hotel's windows blinded him in his office at the nearby Chronicle building, and compared its shape to that of a jukebox.[7]

See also

  • San Francisco's tallest buildings

External links

References

  1. Emporis building ID 118782 Emporis^
  2. {{SkyscraperPage|1892}}^
  3. {{Structurae|20003172}}^
  4. Sarah Duxbury. $200M Hotel Joins Inn Crowd San Francisco Business Times, February 8, 2008, retrieved 2010-04-06^
  5. Christopher Hawthorne. Anthony J. Lumsden dies at 83; Southern California architect The Los Angeles Times, October 10, 2011, retrieved 7 April 2012^
  6. Chester Hartman, ''City for Sale. The Transformation of San Francisco''. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002, chapter 8.^
  7. Joe Rosato. 25 Years Since Loma Prieta: San Francisco Marriott Marquis Shares Unfortunate Date with Disaster NBC Bay Area, Oct 17, 2014, retrieved Oct 17, 2014^
  8. Bay City News, Christie Smith. 500 San Francisco hotel workers hit picket lines Thanksgiving week, joining 2,000 already on strike NBC Bay Area, November 24, 2024, retrieved November 27, 2024^
  9. Bay City News. 500 San Francisco hotel workers hit picket lines Thanksgiving week, joining 2,000 already on strike ABC 7 San Francisco, November 24, 2024, retrieved November 27, 2024^
  10. HOLIDAY TRAVEL ALERT: Strikes Affecting 27.5% of San Francisco Hotel Rooms Likely to Continue Through Holidays, UNITE HERE Says Busineswire, December 2, 2024, retrieved December 4, 2024^
  11. Patrick Hoge. Monthslong SF hotel strike ends as Hilton workers ratify agreement San Francisco Examiner, December 24, 2024, retrieved June 3, 2025^