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Source: Bill Gordon
415-476-2557
15 August 2000
Final beam of first Mission Bay building to be raised into place at Wednesday event
A major step in the future development of Mission Bay will be observed with a traditional topping out ceremony on Wednesday (Aug. 16) as construction workers raise the final beam of the first building of the new UCSF Mission Bay campus.
The ceremonial beam -- painted white, signed by construction workers and dignitaries, and carrying a small fir tree for luck - will be raised to the top of the six-story building after brief remarks at the construction site. Reporters and photographers interested in attending should call UCSF News Services at (415) 476-2557.
Noon Wednesday, Aug. 16 UCSF Mission Bay 16th and Owens streets (enter construction site from 16th Street)
UCSF's first building will contain 385,000 square feet of usable space housing research teams in structural and chemical biology and molecular and cell biology. Architects are SmithGroup and consulting exterior architects Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership. The $224.4 million project is scheduled for completion in 2002.
The first phase of the new campus -- scheduled for completion in 2003 -- will include a second laboratory building, a campus community center building, and a large campus green connecting the buildings. Construction on the next two buildings is scheduled to start in early 2001.
UCSF is developing the first phase of the Mission Bay site in partnership with the Bay Area Life Sciences Alliance (BALSA), a group of local business leaders interested in assisting the University and developing the life sciences industry in San Francisco. UCSF and BALSA formed a unique, non-profit, public-private partnership known as the UCSF Mission Bay Campus LLC to manage campus construction at Mission Bay.
Over the next 20 years, UCSF plans to develop 2.65 million square feet of new research, teaching, and support space at the 43-acre Mission Bay site, about three-quarters the size of the main Parnassus Heights campus. UCSF Mission Bay lies at the heart of the Catellus Development Corporation's larger 303-acre Mission Bay development, which will include a mix of housing, office space, research and technology facilities, a hotel, and parks.
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