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One of America's richest cities sinks in massive hotel debt - as tourists stop choosing it for their vacations
UK Daily Mail ^ | August 12 2024 | Miles Dilworth

Posted on 08/12/2024 10:13:27 AM PDT by knighthawk

San Francisco's glitzy hotels have been plunged into massive debt following a dramatic drop off in tourism to the Golden Gate City.

The Californian city's two biggest hotels, the Hilton Parc 55 and Hilton San Francisco Union Square, have lost a combined $1billion in value, according to the Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Their worth is now $553.8 million.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: gavinnewsom; hotel; newsom; newsomfornia; poop; sanfrancisco
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1 posted on 08/12/2024 10:13:27 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Brought to you by YOU OWN VOTES for Democrats


2 posted on 08/12/2024 10:15:53 AM PDT by alstewartfan (Child slavery, rape and drug OD's mean nothing to Roberts and Barrett. )
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To: alstewartfan

They don’t need tourism, they can fill those hotels with illegals.


3 posted on 08/12/2024 10:17:05 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: knighthawk

Go woke and get.... umm something.


4 posted on 08/12/2024 10:18:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: alstewartfan

And yet, 90%+ of the people in the city will continue to vote for candidates who would make Karl Marx look like a free-market capitalist and who would make the Marquis de Sade look like a choir boy.


5 posted on 08/12/2024 10:18:50 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: farmguy

When you stay in a 5 star hotel at taxpayer expense do you also get your meals paid for in the hotel restaurant? just curious because the last place I would ever eat is the restaurant in a hotel filled with nondocument carrying future voting citizens, and the hotel would only put up with this if their restaurant costs of operations were covered by the borrowed revenue in excess of funds raised through taxes.


6 posted on 08/12/2024 10:20:37 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: farmguy

“They don’t need tourism, they can fill those hotels with illegals.”

The homeless should take priority.


7 posted on 08/12/2024 10:22:23 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: alstewartfan

“Brought to you by YOU OWN VOTES for Democrats”

************

And they likely will keep on voting that way. Stuck on stupid they are.


8 posted on 08/12/2024 10:23:06 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: knighthawk

Wasn’t taxing marijuana suppose pay off our debt?


9 posted on 08/12/2024 10:23:20 AM PDT by Leep (Walz oozes weird. And not the good kind of weird.)
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To: knighthawk
The Californian city's two biggest hotels, the Hilton Parc 55 and Hilton San Francisco Union Square, have lost a combined $1billion in value, according to the Kroll Bond Rating Agency.

Their worth is now $553.8 million.

Which will certainly result in an immediate reduction in property taxes, right?

10 posted on 08/12/2024 10:23:23 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: knighthawk

Tourism I down BECAUSE street after street of businesses and shops are boarded up, fisherman’s wharf with all of its once great restaurants and unique shops is damn near completely boarded up and has become a ghost town! BIG tech is pulling up roots and leaving the area!! Shopping is now done by appointment only because of the theft and danger to staff and customers WHO IN THE HELL would want to go there??? Hotels in the area will be bankrupt within the next year BANK ON IT!!


11 posted on 08/12/2024 10:23:24 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: knighthawk

Newsom and Kamala’s work is nearly complete.


12 posted on 08/12/2024 10:26:32 AM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: knighthawk

“..have lost a combined $1billion in value..”

It’s a start.


13 posted on 08/12/2024 10:30:19 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: knighthawk

someone is missing a “golden state” opportunity here. a vacay for the true thrill seeker would include being held up at gunpoint in a state known for dangerous excitement and adventure. and if You are lucky you’ll get winged by a golden state official bullet and be attended to by bullet-ducking EMT’s who will load and transport you while under fire and make sure you arrive at a golden state socialist hospital where you will be greeted by an emergency room already filled with people who don’t speak English and have your life saved (just barely) by an emergency team that speak only in hindi and some broken english then whisked away to a room with six other beds filled with fellow golden state thrill seekers! food, drink and medical supplies not included. book your ultimate golden state vacay now! before someone comes along and makes California safe again.


14 posted on 08/12/2024 10:30:44 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: alternatives?

OK by me. My point being that neither the homeless nor aliens will keep those hotels alive.


15 posted on 08/12/2024 10:31:06 AM PDT by farmguy ( )
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To: alstewartfan

Why do you assume CA voted for this?

If they had, why has Deep State needed to make all those changes to CA’s elections laws, hmmmm?

Why does Deep State need to steal CA’s elections?


16 posted on 08/12/2024 10:31:33 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: knighthawk
The last time that I spent any time in San Francisco was when I spent a week downtown in the early 1990s. At the time I thought that it was a nice city if you could just get rid of most of the people. Now I don't think a neutron bomb could salvage it.


17 posted on 08/12/2024 10:36:54 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President and neither is Kackling Kamabla.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

I don’t know that people outside the area know how entrenched the idiocy is. In presidential elections you’re off, but not by much. The Democrat candidate has commanded at least 83% of the vote every election since 2008. “Stuck on stupid” doesn’t even begin to cover it
https://www.sf.gov/results


18 posted on 08/12/2024 10:39:08 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (23 years on Free Republic, 12/10/23! More than 8,000 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: knighthawk

Who cares? They apparently support the Cali-nitwit pols who run SF. LOL...More popcorn!


19 posted on 08/12/2024 10:45:13 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: knighthawk

When your travel agent gives you the hotel brochure, the city brochures AND the map where all the feces and urine gets regularly dropped, it kinda takes the shine off vacationing there.

I was in SF years ago headed out for the far east. It was 1969. I got to see it all at the best of times. Haight-Ashbury Sts. The clubs.....all clean (at least cleaner than the poop filled streets now). Rode the street cars, drove down Lombard st.....

My last time there was in Palo Alto near the Loma Prieta fault in 1989...now that was an interesting time.


20 posted on 08/12/2024 10:47:49 AM PDT by Gaffer
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