The name change is the latest effort in the Bay Area to replace the name of the English explorer who participated in slave trading in the 1500s.
But he also participated in slaving voyages to Africa, and the use of his name came under scrutiny as the Black Lives Matter movement prompted a nationwide reexamination of place names and monuments with ties to racism.
A school district in San Anselmo, north of San Francisco, voted last year to rename Sir Francis Drake Hotel to honor Archie Williams, a Black Olympic gold medalist and World War II veteran. Fairfax, a town in Marin County, also renamed a stretch of the 43-mile-long Sir Francisco Drake Boulevard to Coastal Miwok Trail.
Tom Sweeney, San Francisco’s famous Beefeater-cloaked doorman who greeted visitors at the threshold of Union Square’s Sir Francis Drake Hotel for over four decades, said he is hanging up his red coat, and closing the door on his long career. Joe Rosato Jr. reports. The 416-room hotel, which has been shuttered since the onset of the pandemic, is scheduled to reopen this spring following a makeover of interior elements. A spokeswoman for the Northview Hotel Group, which purchased the hotel last year for about $157 million, Download our local news and weather app for
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