The Bay and the Valley

July will see the opening of a new 224-room hotel in Cupertino, Calif. The Cypress Hotel, which is being developed by Kimpton Hotel and Restaurant Group, will include 21 suites, a 150-seat restaurant, and 4,000 square feet of meeting space, including a 3,000-square-foot ballroom. Kimpton has also been tapped to transform the Haslett Warehouse at San Francisco's Cannery Wharf into the 268-room Argonaut Hotel.

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