Even so, Williams, now in his 70s, is one of the lucky ones: He survived the Hyatt Regency Hotel tragedy of 1981, an engineering calamity that injured more than 200 people and killed 114 others.

The Hyatt Regency ... building that was built in 1972 on 1.6 acres at 5 Embarcadero Center. One local news source citing unnamed sources pegged the sale price at approximately $250,000 per key, or ...