A few blocks from San Francisco’s iconic Union Square, the huge Hilton Hotel was up for auction. Now, the hotel is reviewing bids to narrow down on the buyer, with a possibility that it would be converted into housing.
“We are seeing a lot of interest in San Francisco area hotels for alternative use [apartments],” hotel consultant Alan Reay of Atlas Hospitality told The Epoch Times on Nov. 22 in an email.
The city plans to turn unused or underutilized office spaces into residential units in an effort to revive downtown after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Recently, San Francisco gave the green light to demolish an existing office space to build the city’s tallest residential building downtown near the Salesforce and Millennium towers….