The Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero is a luxury hotel that occupies the top 11 floors of 48
story office tower of
345 California Center
345 California Center is a 48-story office tower in the financial district of San Francisco, California. Completed in 1986, the tower is the fifth tallest in the city after the Salesforce Tower, Transamerica Pyramid, 181 Fremont, and 555 Califor ...
at 222 Sansome Street in the
financial district of
San Francisco,
California. Completed in 1986, the 345 California Center tower is the fifth-tallest in the city, at . Initially planned as condominiums, the twin towers of hotel were situated at 45-degree
angles relative to the rest of the building, connected to each other by several glass
skybridge
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s that offer views of the
San Francisco Bay Area.
The hotel opened in 1986 as the Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco. In February 2015, the hotel was sold to
Loews Hotels and renamed the Loews Regency San Francisco. In May 2019, Loews sold the hotel to investment company
Westbrook Partners
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.
The hotel closed for renovations at the end of 2019, and the
Four Seasons Hotels group assumed management, renaming it "Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero" (although the
Embarcadero runs several blocks away from the building).
The hotel was originally set to reopen on May 1, 2020, but the outbreak of the
COVID-19 pandemic forced the opening to be postponed to October 1, 2020,. As the pandemic quickly worsened, the newly-opened hotel soon closed again, on December 20, 2020. It reopened on June 16, 2021.
Gallery
File:345CaliforniaCenterWithItsFrontEntrance.jpg, 345 California lobby
File:345CaliforniaCenterWithItsTweezerTop.jpg, The building's twin spires
See also
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List of tallest buildings in San Francisco
References
Further reading
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External links
{{Commons category, 345 California Center
Four Seasons Hotel San Francisco at Embarcadero official website
Financial District, San Francisco
Skyscraper hotels in San Francisco
Hotels established in 1986
Hotel buildings completed in 1986