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Originally Posted by viewguysf
It really has very little to do with Paris' tribe. The hotel has had the same local owners (Justice Investors) since the day it was built; it was actually leased to Holiday Inns, Inc. and now it's a franchised Hilton managed by the Dow Hotel Company of Seattle. Part of the deal for building the hotel was that it would house the Chinese Culture Center on the third floor, connected by a bridge to Portsmouth Square.
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The cultural center was how the project was able to be part of a redevelopment wasn't it?
Sometimes when we are most frustrated with NIMBYS in SF remember that there would be other monstrosities all the way to North Beach if is wasn't for community activism. It is all about a balance of capitalism with the public's interests (which none of use can of course agree on)