| Hyatt Regency San Francisco | |
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| Five Embarcadero Center | |
| Location | United States |
| Address | Five Embarcadero Center San Francisco, California |
| Hotel chain | Global Hyatt Corporation |
| Opening date | 1973 |
| Developer | Trammell Crow David Rockefeller John C. Portman, Jr. |
| Architect | John Portman & Associates |
| Management | Hyatt Hotels Corporation |
| Owner | Dune Capital Management DiNapoli Capital Partners |
| Rooms | 802 |
| Suites | Balcony Suite Embarcadero Suite |
| Restaurants | Eclipse Restaurant Eclipse Lounge |
| Total floor area | 863,400 sq ft (80,210 m2) |
| Floors | 20 |
| Website | sanfranciscoregency.hyatt.com |
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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.
The building was sold by its owner, 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.
The Regency Club Lounge was once the Equinox, a rooftop revolving restaurant, but is now a stationary elite club for certain hotel guests offering 360-degree views of the city and the bay.
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The Hyatt Regency's atrium lobby served as the lobby of the Glass Tower in 1974's The Towering Inferno. Replicas of John Portman's trademark pill-shaped elevators were built for use in the film and are featured throughout, including in an extended sequence where one is lifted from the stricken tower by helicopter. The Hotel was also featured in the 1977 Mel Brooks Comedy High Anxiety, the film Telefon from 1977 and in Time After Time (1979 film), a tale of H.G. Wells chasing Jack The Ripper into the "future" of 1979.
As well as being a setting for numerous films, the lobby is itself inspired by a film. Architect John Portman has stated that its design was suggested to him by viewing the 1935 science fiction film Things to Come.
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