Hospitality
World Cup Lifts Downtown San Jose Hotel RevPAR 42% as 1MM Visitors Test City’s District Bet
San Jose says six weeks of World Cup soccer drew one million visitors to its downtown and pushed hotel revenue per available room...
Napa Council Approves 94-Room Hotel at Historic Franklin Station Post Office
Eight years after an earthquake and a first failed entitlement, Napa’s historic post office finally has a green light to become a hotel....
Port of San Francisco Backs $38MM Incentive Package to Rescue 164-Room Teatro ZinZanni Hotel on the Embarcadero
Facing a $30 million hole that has kept one of the Embarcadero’s marquee waterfront projects frozen for the better part of a decade,...
Clint Reilly, Political Operative Turned $400MM San Francisco Property Owner, Dies at 79
Clint Reilly, who parlayed a career as one of California’s most influential campaign strategists into a nine-figure San Francisco real estate and media...
SRE Acquisitions Acquires 357-Room Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley for $53MM from Ashford Hospitality Trust
The Fremont Marriott Silicon Valley has changed hands for the first time in more than a decade, giving a Dallas-based hotel REIT working...
Northern California Hotel Construction Jumps 28% in First Half of 2026 Even as Openings Slow
With San Francisco posting the nation’s fastest RevPAR growth at plus 31 percent and Northern California construction projects jumping 28 percent, the region’s...
Stay Cal Hospitality Opens 51-Room voco Ardez Hotel in Sunnyvale, Silicon Valley’s First voco by IHG
Bay Area operator Stay Cal Hospitality has opened a 51-room, LEED Gold hotel at 1101 Elko Drive in Sunnyvale, planting IHG’s premium voco...
Golf Course Standoff Pushes San Leandro Marina Redevelopment Into Bankruptcy Court, Stalling 200-Plus Homes
A decade-long effort to remake San Leandro’s 75-acre waterfront has collapsed into a bankruptcy-court fight pitting developer Cal Coast against the city that...
Blackstone Real Estate to Acquire 821-Room Hyatt Regency Embarcadero in San Francisco for $279MM
Blackstone Real Estate is acquiring the 821-room Hyatt Regency Embarcadero from Sunstone Hotel Investors for $279 million — roughly $340,000 per key —...
Blue Diamond Hospitality Buys 151-Room Hyatt Place Fremont/Silicon Valley for $13.2MM
A Fresno-based hospitality investment group has snapped up a Silicon Valley-area hotel at a steep discount to its assessed value, adding to a...
Braemar Hotels & Resorts Sells Hotel Yountville and Bardessono in $437.5MM Three-Property Deal
A Dallas-based hotel REIT is shedding its two Napa Valley trophy properties as part of a transaction approaching a half-billion dollars — then,...
108-Room SureStay Plus Hotel in Richmond Faces Foreclosure on $11.6MM Loan
The financial unraveling of a 108-room hotel in Richmond has added another entry to the Bay Area’s swelling ledger of hotel loan defaults,...
