The Kimpton Hotel and Restaurant Group has a 57-year lease agreement with the National Park Service, which owns the Haslett Warehouse, to redevelop the warehouse into a boutique hotel with museum.
The Argonaut Hotel, whose profits will help support the adjacent Maritime National Historic Park, is now likely to open in the year 2003 instead of this fall, according to a representative of the Kimpton Hotel and Restaurant Group.
Once the largest fruit and vegetable cannery in the world, the Haslett Warehouse was built between 1907 and 1909. The four-story building, part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park in the Cannery area, sustained extensive damage in the blaze that began around midnight Saturday.
The cause of the fire and estimates of the damage have not been determined.
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