JRK Hotel Group has been chosen by La Salle Hotel Properties to manage the 182 room, full service Villa Florence located in the heart of the Union Square district of San Francisco

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 07, 2011

JRK Hotel Group today announced that it has been chosen to manage the Villa Florence hotel in San Francisco. The 182-room, urban, full service hotel is located at 225 Powell Street in the heart of the Union Square district of San Francisco.

The Villa Florence benefits from an excellent location, which allows it to generate significant demand as a result of its numerous well regarded restaurants, robust retail offerings, vibrant nightlife and the adjacent San Francisco Theater District. The hotel fronts the famed Cable Car Line just one block south of Union Square, San Francisco's most popular retail and visitor attraction. The Financial District, Chinatown, Grace Cathedral, Nob Hill, Westfield San Francisco Centre, Sony Metreon, Yerba Buena Park and the Moscone Convention Center are all within walking distance of the hotel.

For those heading to San Francisco for the Pacific meeting of the American Philosophical Association, especially if you don’t want to cross the hotel union’s pickte line, join me off-site for a day-long discussion on public philosophy co-sponsored by the APA committee on Public Philosophy and the Center for Global Ethics (George Mason University). Here are the details:

Friday, April 2, 2009, 9-4 p.m.

Villa Florence Larkspur Hotel, 221 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA

Despite the public perception that continues to share Aristophanes’ view that philosophers remain “in the clouds,” incapable of doing publicly relevant work, at least some philosophers have remained committed to a Socratic model of philosophy that is engaged with public life.   These sessions invite philosophers who do publicly engaged work (assuming multiple publics and multiple types of engagement) to come together to both share their work and to reflect philosophically on the concept of “public philosophy.”