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Tavern on the Green Enters City by the Bay

SAN FRANCISCO- When it takes over the 43,000-sf top floor of the Metreon next year it will be the largest restaurant in the city.

By Brian K. Miller | Updated on May 08, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO-Tavern on the Green, one of New York’s most popular tourist and special occasion restaurants will open a West Coast iteration in the top floor of San Francisco’s Metreon, which includes 30,000 sf of interior space and a 13,000-sf terrace overlooking Yerba Buena Gardens. When it opens next year, Tavern on the Green will be the largest restaurant in the city.

Adding the well-known restaurant is part of an effort to reposition the Metreon, a 350,000-sf entertainment and retail complex that has had some trouble hanging onto retail shop tenants. Westfield and Forest City bought the property in February 2006 for approximately $66 million. Sony developed the four-story center in 1999 for closer to $86 million, according to published reports. The seller was a JV of Sony Corp. of America and Millennium Partners.

In luring a brand as well known as Tavern on the Green, Westfield and Forest City are attempting to do what Sony could not: create a place that will not only attract but also retain shop retailers. Three years after it opened several stores closed, including Microsoft and Discovery Channel, prompting Sony to open its own stores in the center and also to operate other companies’ stores for them. A high-end restaurant called Montage also didn’t last long, all while the movie theater and the food court did and continue to do well, a sign that the Metreon’s clientele did not have much disposable income.

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