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Intercontinental San Francisco
888 Howard Street,
San Francisco, CA 94103 US

W Hotel San Francisco
181 3rd Street,
San Francisco, CA 94103 US

The St. Regis San Francisco
125 3rd Street,
San Francisco, CA 94103 US

Courtyard by Marriott San Francisco Downtown
299 2nd Street,
San Francisco, CA 94105 US

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ABOUT MOSCONE CENTER SAN FRANCISCO

Located in the urban heart of San Francisco's downtown district, The Moscone Center is easily accessible by public transit. BART subway trains offer fast, convenient regional service and MUNI Metro provides light rail service throughout San Francisco into the Powell and Embarcadero stations. Caltrain offers a frequent schedule into the nearby station at 4th & Townsend Streets. All of these stations are within an easy walk of The Moscone Center.

Sitting on 43 hills, and surrounded on three sides by water, San Francisco is ideally located so that almost every one of its streets ends or begins with a panoramic sea view. Some call it The City By the Bay, but to most of its residents, it is known simply as The City. Seldom has there been such a passion for preserving the past with its colorful legends and architecture as there is in San Francisco. Seven times, it has been rebuilt after fires and earthquakes; and seven times, it has been carefully and lovingly restored.

The city varies in altitude from sea level to 929 feet because of its configuration. The combined effect of the many hills, the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco Bay, and the Golden Gate Bridge is stunning in its beauty and scope.

Established in 1835 as a resting place along the trail and called Yerba Buena, the village had fewer than 100 inhabitants for 13 years. The discovery of gold rapidly raised that population figure to over 10,000. Only a handful made a fortune from gold, but many stayed on to develop the city that became San Francisco.

Today San Francisco is an important industrial, tourist and financial center. Its financial district is often called "Wall Street West." The city port handles huge amounts of cargo annually and ranks among the top ten ports in the world for passenger traffic. George R. Moscone Convention Center occupies a city block between third and Fourth Streets and Howard and Folsom Streets and is almost entirely built underground. Across the street, is the Center for the Arts at the Yerba Buena Gardens, a visual and performing arts complex.