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Mission Bay Milestones
December 1996
UCSF School of Medicine Dean Haile Debas appoints a Mission Bay Task Force, headed by Keith Yamamoto, chair of cellular and molecular pharmacology, to propose a roster of basic researchers to establish the first foothold at Mission Bay.
January 1997
UC Regents approve 300-page UCSF Long-Range Development Plan (LRDP) and certify its Environmental Impact Report. The LRDP calls for two main strategies to meet UCSF's space needs: reinvesting in existing sites and establishing a major new campus site.
May 1997
Regents approve establishing a campus at Mission Bay, located about a mile south of San Francisco's financial district, to help ease overcrowding at the Parnassus Heights campus and its 14 other dispersed campus sites and to expand biomedical research and education. See full story.
August 1997
Five prominent architectural and planning firms are selected from a group of about 60 to enter an international competition to design the master plan of the future campus. See full story.
September 1997
Regents and Catellus Development Corp. execute an agreement for Catellus to donate 30 acres of land for UCSF Mission Bay campus.
October 1997
The Mission Bay Task Force submitted to then-Chancellor Haile Debas its proposal for choosing which departments will move to Mission Bay and how programs at Parnassus Heights may be best maximized.
November 1997
- Culminating a five-month international design competition, a panel selects a team lead by Machado and Silvetti Associates Inc. to prepare the master plan for UCSF's campus at Mission Bay. The architects, who are graduates of the UC Berkeley architecture school, work with San Francisco architects Gordon H. Chong & Partners and landscapers Olin Partnership to implement a basic design and building scheme. See full story.
- In addition, UCSF reconfigures its Community Advisory Group to include new members who live near Mission Bay while retaining a core of long-term members.
January 1998
- Then-Chancellor Debas appoints a faculty task force, again headed by Keith Yamamoto, chair of cellular and molecular pharmacology, to oversee programs of the first research building, later called Genentech Hall.
- Renowned neuroscientist Zach Hall returns to UCSF to serve as associate dean for research in the UCSF School of Medicine in part to guide academic planning for the campus expansion at Mission Bay.
February 1998
- Nobel laureate J. Michael "Mike" Bishop, one of the world's foremost medical researchers and a leading advocate for science education and increased public investment in scientific research, was named chancellor of UCSF. See full story.
- A faculty-led Mission Bay academic implementation committee selects four scientific research areas to occupy the first phase of the UCSF Mission Bay campus. These research groups are structural and chemical biology; cellular, molecular and developmental biology; genetics; and developmental neuroscience.
- Faculty work with architects and campus planners on the design of the first research building, which follows the model of an interactive research environment similar to laboratories found in the Health Sciences towers on the Parnassus campus. As a result, Genentech Hall features interaction space, which fosters the collegiality, connectivity and cooperation among faculty and staff.
March 1998
San Francisco Board of Supervisors and Mayor Willie Brown approve donating 13 acres of land to UCSF. Regents approve forming Mission Bay Limited Liability Company to help develop the campus.
April 1998
UCSF submits a preliminary campus development plan to Catellus Development Corp.
September 1998
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency and Planning Commission certifies Mission Bay Subsequent Environment Impact Report.
October 1998
San Francisco Board of Supervisors approve Catellus' overall 303-acre Mission Bay project, which includes 6,000 units of housing of which 1,700 will be affordable, a 500-room hotel, stores, office space, restaurants and the UCSF campus. Part of the plan includes an extension of a rail system to connect the Mission Bay site to Potrero Hill and Bayview-Hunters Point.
January 1999
Bank of America announces that it will donate $5 million to UCSF for the development of the Mission Bay campus. This gift represents the largest corporate contribution at the time to the future campus, aside from Catellus Corporation's gift of the land itself.
February 1999
Campus officials meet with the Community Advisory Group to review plans for the 385,000-square-foot Genentech Hall.
March 1999
Regents approve design and funding for the $223 million Genentech Hall, which was designed by architects SMP-SHG and Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership. The building incorporates 100,000 square feet of stone, 50,000 square feet of windows and 5,500 tons of structural steel, and features a glass atrium, terraces and outdoor amphitheater.
May 1999
UCSF Public Service Programs, a division of Public Affairs, begins conducting tours to Mission Bay, including a stop at the Catellus Visitor's Center, where participants view the plans for the revitalization of the entire 303-acre site near the Bay.
July 1999
UCSF selects two world-renowned architects - Ricardo Legorreta to design the campus community center and Cesar Pelli to design the second research building. UCSF names Peter Walker & Partners, a landscape design firm located in Berkeley, to serve as special consultants for the first phase of the Mission Bay project, including the 3.2-acre campus green. See full story.
October 1999
- UCSF breaks ground on Oct. 25 for first research building, Genentech Hall, with 400 campus, city and state officials as well as faculty and staff witnessing the historic event. The event marks the most important single undertaking in the University's history and the largest urban revitalization project ever in San Francisco.
- UCSF Public Affairs announces the birth of the Mission Bay campus through a special newspaper supplement that appeared in Sunday, Oct. 24 issues of the San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, and the San Francisco, Boston, Los Angeles and Washington DC, regional editions of the New York Times.
November 1999
The University of California and Genentech, Inc. agree to a proposed settlement of the patent infringement lawsuits brought by UC relating to Genentech's human growth hormone products. Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Genentech paid UC $150 million and made a contribution of $50 million toward construction of the first research building at UCSF Mission Bay. UC agreed to name the building Genentech Hall.
February 2000
- UCSF and a consortium of community-based agencies establish a comprehensive system to promote local hiring on all major campus construction projects, including UCSF Mission Bay. The UCSF Community Construction Workforce Program is patterned after a pilot project that significantly increased local hiring and workforce diversity at Mount Zion construction sites.
- Pile driving begins for Genentech Hall. In the end, 1,280 piles were successfully driven into the land beneath the building. Each 14-inch square pile of concrete measures 80-feet long.
March 2000
Regents approve financing plans for construction of the second research building and campus community center at Mission Bay. The financing plan for the $65.5 million community center and the $89 million research building call for using a combination of gift and campus funds.
April 2000
Pacific Bell Park opens near the UCSF Mission Bay campus.
May 2000
- Regents approve architectural designs for the 168,000-square-foot research building to house programs in neuroscience, developmental biology and genetics and the 159,000-square-foot campus community center. The community center, which later was downsized to 150,000-square feet due to budget constraints, will include a fitness and recreation center, conference center, student services, campus activity spaces, library, food services, retail space and administrative services.
- The UCSF Mission Bay Art Advisory Board, headed by Steven H. Oliver, meets for the first time to discuss commissioning, purchasing and borrowing works of art for the Mission Bay campus.
June 2000
Crews complete concrete foundation work at Genentech Hall.
August 2000
Campus celebrates the "topping off" or the placing of the final steel beam on the six-story Genentech Hall. See full story.
December 2000
Gov. Gray Davis on Dec. 7 announces the creation of the Institute for Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), to integrate physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences to open the way for discovery of treatments and cures for diseases, such as brain disorders, cancer, and diabetes. To be headquartered at Mission Bay, QB3 is a joint program of UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz and UCSF. See full story.
March 2001
The Koret Foundation donates $10 million toward the Mission Bay campus and the campus names the 2.6-acre campus green area the Koret Quad.
May 2001
UCSF hosts focus groups with faculty and postdoctoral scholars who will be among the first research pioneers at the Mission Bay campus.
July 2001
Chancellor Mike Bishop names the first group of Mission Bay researchers who together will become the first scientific pioneers at one of the nation's largest life science communities. See full story.
August 2001
Crews start construction on the second research building to house programs in neuroscience, developmental biology and genetics.
September 2001
Chancellor Mike Bishop appoints longtime UCSF faculty member Regis "Reg" B. Kelly, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UCSF, to the position of executive vice chancellor upon the resignation of Zach Hall, the first to assume that post in 2000. Kelly now oversees UCSF's $350 million annual research enterprise and provides leadership in development of academic and research programs at Mission Bay and throughout UCSF. See full story.
December 2001
Campus hosts first Mission Bay town hall meeting specifically for the researchers and lab managers who will be the first to move to the site.
February 2002
Chancellor Mike Bishop appoints Marvin Cassman, a nationally known innovator and leader in basic science administration, as director of QB3. Cassman oversees innovative programs designed to integrate physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences to create powerful new techniques for attacking biological problems. See full story.
May 2002
Campus and construction crews celebrate the completion of the steel structure for the second research building.
Source: Lisa Cisneros
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