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UC San Francisco Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, last week presented a plan to a UC Regents committee to invest in four projects that are critical to achieving the University’s overall capital strategy to strengthen its research, education and patient care programs and to support the work of its faculty, staff and students.
The four projects are part of UCSF’s long-term capital strategy to:
- Expand and renovate buildings to meet growing clinical and research needs;
- Address seismic safety and long deferred maintenance of aging buildings; and
- Add to its limited stock of student housing, childcare and parking.
Hawgood and Mark Laret, chief executive officer of UCSF Health, shared plans for the four projects – two slated as action items and two for discussion only – at the UC Regents’ Committee on Grounds and Buildings meeting at UCSF Mission Bay.
During the development process of each building, UCSF will continue to work closely with the surrounding communities to present the plans and address areas of concern for its neighbors.
At the July 21 meeting, the Regents committee approved $11 million in planning funds to renovate UC Hall on the Parnassus Heights campus and $10.9 million in planning funds to construct a new building to replace space occupied by UCSF employees in seismically challenged buildings at the site of the city-owned San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH). UC President Janet Napolitano had recommended to the Regents that planning funds for both projects be approved.
UC Hall at Parnassus Heights
UC Hall is the oldest building on the Parnassus campus.
The oldest building on the flagship Parnassus campus, UC Hall was constructed in 1917 as the University’s first hospital. Today, the 148,200-square-foot building currently houses office, research laboratory, clinical and educational space, but requires seismic remediation to comply with the University's Seismic Safety Policy.
In an effort to address the limited housing on campus and reduce its impact on the Parnassus Heights neighborhood, UCSF is proposing to convert three floors of UC Hall for desktop workspace for faculty and staff, and three floors of housing with 134 beds for students and postdocs. Preliminary estimates to complete the retrofitting work at UC Hall range from $170 million to $183 million, which would be funded through external financing and campus funds, comprising non-state, non-tuition funds.
San Francisco General Hospital Research Building
UCSF is proposing the construction of a new, 175,000-square-foot research building at SFGH, which has been affiliated with UCSF as a teaching and research site since 1873.
The proposed research building would be located near the newly constructed San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, which will open in late 2015. Photo courtesy of SFGH Rebuild
The new research building would replace space occupied by UCSF employees in seven seismically compromised buildings – originally constructed during World War I – with modern facilities that would greatly enhance the work of UCSF’s principal investigators at SFGH.
The building would accommodate 800 UCSF employees, the majority of whom are currently working in programs in at least 16 clinical departments at SFGH. The construction cost of the new research building at SFGH, which is preliminarily estimated at $188 million, would be funded through external financing and campus funds.
In related news on Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a non-binding term sheet for UCSF to enter into a 75-year ground lease for the site of the new building that UCSF would own and operate.
The Regents committee also discussed two other projects at UCSF Mission Bay, a new cancer outpatient building and another building to house faculty and staff relocated from other sites. UCSF officials will present both projects for Regents’ approval of planning funding this fall.
Mission Bay Block 33 Building
In September, UCSF will request approval for $11 million for planning funding for a new Phase 1 building on the Mission Bay East campus, known as block 33, which UCSF purchased last year. The 340,000-square-foot building would provide office and research space for UCSF faculty and staff currently located in other owned and leased locations, including Laurel Heights which must be vacated in four-and-a-half years before the site is privately developed.
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The building on block 33 would house a new Center for Vision Neuroscience, which will house clinical research and teaching space for ophthalmology programs, now at the Parnassus campus. If approved, construction of this new building projected to cost $237 million, is expected to begin in 2016 and be completed in 2018.
Precision Cancer Medicine Building
The recent recruitment of Alan Ashworth, PhD, FRS, one of the world’s preeminent cancer scientists, has spurred the development of a new strategic plan for advanced cancer care in the emerging era of precision medicine.
In September, UCSF will request approval of $16.6 million to plan a new outpatient cancer building adjacent to the UCSF Ron Conway Family Gateway Medical Building at Third and 16th streets at UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay.