Posted Jan 22, 2021, 6:32 AM
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mission Bay, San Francisco
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UC Regents approval
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UCSF’s “modernization plan” for its Parnassus Heights campus got the go-ahead from the University of California Board of Regents on Thursday. The $3 billion, 30-year project includes a new hospital and research facilities as well as 1,200 units of housing for students and faculty.
... The project will include the replacement of the 70-year-old Moffitt Hospital, which does not meet the state’s seismic code and must be decommissioned for inpatient care by 2030, the same time the new hospital is scheduled to open.
UCSF has said that the new hospital is urgently needed, as it currently turns away about 3,000 patients a year seeking care because of a lack of bed capacity.
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While the regents’ vote allowed the project to move forward, there was also a victory for critics wishing to slow it down and iron out details. The regents voted to require that the agreement between the city and UCSF be “enforceable” and approved by regents chair John Perez.
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Earlier in the week, UCSF announced it reached an agreement with the San Francisco Building and Construction Trades Council and the project contractor to ensure that it is built with union labor. It is expected to create 1,000 jobs.
Next month, UCSF will begin a design process that includes community members and the architectural firm Herzog & de Meuron, which designed the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Those meetings will focus on exterior building design, site access, pedestrian and vehicular circulation, landscaping and open space connections to the Mount Sutro Forest that is part of the campus.
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