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I wonder how the analysis was done. San Francisco has a very different "hotel" presence than other cities I've been in. Here are just a few unique things: *
by habosa 11y ago
I wonder how the analysis was done. San Francisco has a very different "hotel" presence than other cities I've been in. Here are just a few unique things:
* SF is one of the few cities I've ever been in where you will see motels in populous city areas. Normally you'd think in such a crowded city having a huge parking lot on your property would be foolish, but it seems to be popular. Off the top of my head I can think of 2 motels in the Marina/Cow Hollow area and 2 more in Soma, both of which are neighborhoods with insanely high real estate prices.
* In the areas in/around the Tenderloin there are a huge number of "hotels" that are basically extended stay residences for people who can't afford any apartment in SF. They're a few hundred bucks a month and feature tiny, often dirty rooms with shared bathrooms and no kitchen. However they're all called "____ Hotel" so they'd appear in any blind analysis of the city.
- mikeash 11y agoRegarding motels, I imagine that's the a consequence of the same anti-development forces that have been driving up real estate prices and produce extremely valuable areas filled with low-rise buildings. Having a huge parking lot on your property in the middle of SF has to be foolish. At the very least it must be worth building a multi-level garage to save space. However, is it feasible to replace it with anything else? If you already have a parking lot, perhaps because it was totally sensible in 1932 or whenever it was originally built, what does it take to build something more valuable on that land today?