North Beach Building Owned for Over 50 Years By Francis Ford Coppola Put Up as Collateral

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/12/01/north-beach-building-owned-for-over-50-years-by-francis-ford-coppola-put-up-as-collateral/A striking, flatiron-shaped building in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, owned since 1973 by filmmaker, hotelier, and winery owner Francis Ford Coppola, has been put up for collateral on a loan as Coppola continues weathering the financial fallout from his flop passion project Megalopolis. It's not the first time that the oxidized copper-trimmed Sentinel Building has been used as collateral by Francis Ford Coppola, and it's not the first time that Coppola has had to weather the fallout from a film that tanked at the box office. But the late-in-life would-be epic Megalopolis, which Coppola had been working on for 40 years, wa