Marriott SoMA Mission Bay, San Francisco [Master Thread]
Mar 31, 2018, 9:52 am
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Marriott SoMA Mission Bay, San Francisco [Master Thread]
Groundbreaking has just begun on a new Marriott in San Francisco's Mission Bay. First new full service hotel build in SF in a decade. Scheduled for a 2020 opening. Will be within walking distance of AT&T Park and the Warriors' new arena.
Marriott SoMA Mission Bay
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Apr 1, 2018, 8:51 am
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Apr 1, 2018, 11:50 am
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Until I saw this thread, I did not realize that San Francisco also has an area called Mission Bay.
I have a different problem with the name Marriott SoMA Mission Bay. Although usually written as SoMa (South of Market), the area is sometimes written as SOMA. Does the hotel really plan to write it as SoMA?
The San Francisco Marriott Marquis does not have SoMa as part of its name, so I don't see that as a problem.
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FWIW, I don't really consider anything south of mission bay to be SoMa anyway (really that side of I-80 isn't very soma-ish if you ask me), and I wouldn't describe the Marquis, which is on market street, as being "in soma" either.
Apr 2, 2018, 5:07 pm
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And then referring to "mission" would just make it worse 
I wouldn't either (even though its address is technically Mission Street), but the real estate folks have expanded the definition of SoMa to include virtually anything below market street.
I wouldn't either (even though its address is technically Mission Street), but the real estate folks have expanded the definition of SoMa to include virtually anything below market street.
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As 2021 continues the hotel looks like it should open sometime soon. I bike past it every day on my way to work, and think it will be a great asset to the neighborhood.
I'm a native San Franciscan, so I feel like my cultural awareness might help with the naming upthread. Historically there was a big caste difference between people who lived north or south of "the slot", aka Market Street. Living south was considered very déclassé, except for a brief period of time before the 1906 earthquake near South Park. Mission Bay was the former Southern Pacific rail yards from back before container shipping when the biggest port of the West Coast was in our precious 7x7. Of course now Long Beach and Oakland are much bigger ports. All of this changed way before most of us, yours truly included, were born.
During the 1990s SoMA was the hot area for the tech industry and extended to Mission Creek and Barry Street. The Central Soma neighborhood around the "sometime will open" Central Subway has emerged as a microneighborhood, and Mission Bay is directly south featuring UCSF, numerous biotech companies, a couple tech companies like Dropbox + Uber and, of course, Chase Stadium.
Given all this, I'd say that SOMA describes the entire big area from Market Street to Van Ness to Mariposa Street and the start of Potrero Hill. With this definition, the Marriott SoMA Mission Bay is an appropriate name. This said I think that if it were my choice I'd call it the Marriott Mission Bay San Francisco. Think that is better SEO for what it is worth--even though as others comment the entire SoMA area is underserved by hotels.
Also of note most of the condo buildings in this part of town do not allow AirBNBs, unlike the smaller projects elsewhere in the City, so the demand for hotel rooms should be quite high.
Not to make this too off tangent, but there is a rumor that a full service hotel will open in the Dogpatch at the end of 22nd St if/when the Power Station development completes.
I'm a native San Franciscan, so I feel like my cultural awareness might help with the naming upthread. Historically there was a big caste difference between people who lived north or south of "the slot", aka Market Street. Living south was considered very déclassé, except for a brief period of time before the 1906 earthquake near South Park. Mission Bay was the former Southern Pacific rail yards from back before container shipping when the biggest port of the West Coast was in our precious 7x7. Of course now Long Beach and Oakland are much bigger ports. All of this changed way before most of us, yours truly included, were born.
During the 1990s SoMA was the hot area for the tech industry and extended to Mission Creek and Barry Street. The Central Soma neighborhood around the "sometime will open" Central Subway has emerged as a microneighborhood, and Mission Bay is directly south featuring UCSF, numerous biotech companies, a couple tech companies like Dropbox + Uber and, of course, Chase Stadium.
Given all this, I'd say that SOMA describes the entire big area from Market Street to Van Ness to Mariposa Street and the start of Potrero Hill. With this definition, the Marriott SoMA Mission Bay is an appropriate name. This said I think that if it were my choice I'd call it the Marriott Mission Bay San Francisco. Think that is better SEO for what it is worth--even though as others comment the entire SoMA area is underserved by hotels.
Also of note most of the condo buildings in this part of town do not allow AirBNBs, unlike the smaller projects elsewhere in the City, so the demand for hotel rooms should be quite high.
Not to make this too off tangent, but there is a rumor that a full service hotel will open in the Dogpatch at the end of 22nd St if/when the Power Station development completes.
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As 2021 continues the hotel looks like it should open sometime soon. I bike past it every day on my way to work, and think it will be a great asset to the neighborhood.
I'm a native San Franciscan, so I feel like my cultural awareness might help with the naming upthread. Historically there was a big caste difference between people who lived north or south of "the slot", aka Market Street. Living south was considered very déclassé, except for a brief period of time before the 1906 earthquake near South Park. Mission Bay was the former Southern Pacific rail yards from back before container shipping when the biggest port of the West Coast was in our precious 7x7. Of course now Long Beach and Oakland are much bigger ports. All of this changed way before most of us, yours truly included, were born.
During the 1990s SoMA was the hot area for the tech industry and extended to Mission Creek and Barry Street. The Central Soma neighborhood around the "sometime will open" Central Subway has emerged as a microneighborhood, and Mission Bay is directly south featuring UCSF, numerous biotech companies, a couple tech companies like Dropbox + Uber and, of course, Chase Stadium.
Given all this, I'd say that SOMA describes the entire big area from Market Street to Van Ness to Mariposa Street and the start of Potrero Hill. With this definition, the Marriott SoMA Mission Bay is an appropriate name. This said I think that if it were my choice I'd call it the Marriott Mission Bay San Francisco. Think that is better SEO for what it is worth--even though as others comment the entire SoMA area is underserved by hotels.
Also of note most of the condo buildings in this part of town do not allow AirBNBs, unlike the smaller projects elsewhere in the City, so the demand for hotel rooms should be quite high.
Not to make this too off tangent, but there is a rumor that a full service hotel will open in the Dogpatch at the end of 22nd St if/when the Power Station development completes.
I'm a native San Franciscan, so I feel like my cultural awareness might help with the naming upthread. Historically there was a big caste difference between people who lived north or south of "the slot", aka Market Street. Living south was considered very déclassé, except for a brief period of time before the 1906 earthquake near South Park. Mission Bay was the former Southern Pacific rail yards from back before container shipping when the biggest port of the West Coast was in our precious 7x7. Of course now Long Beach and Oakland are much bigger ports. All of this changed way before most of us, yours truly included, were born.
During the 1990s SoMA was the hot area for the tech industry and extended to Mission Creek and Barry Street. The Central Soma neighborhood around the "sometime will open" Central Subway has emerged as a microneighborhood, and Mission Bay is directly south featuring UCSF, numerous biotech companies, a couple tech companies like Dropbox + Uber and, of course, Chase Stadium.
Given all this, I'd say that SOMA describes the entire big area from Market Street to Van Ness to Mariposa Street and the start of Potrero Hill. With this definition, the Marriott SoMA Mission Bay is an appropriate name. This said I think that if it were my choice I'd call it the Marriott Mission Bay San Francisco. Think that is better SEO for what it is worth--even though as others comment the entire SoMA area is underserved by hotels.
Also of note most of the condo buildings in this part of town do not allow AirBNBs, unlike the smaller projects elsewhere in the City, so the demand for hotel rooms should be quite high.
Not to make this too off tangent, but there is a rumor that a full service hotel will open in the Dogpatch at the end of 22nd St if/when the Power Station development completes.