A white beam with a Christmas Tree is about to be raised atop CPMC’s Cathedral Hill hospital that’s rising at Geary and Van Ness. And once welded into place, the beam will officially mark the “topping out” of the structural steel for the project which is currently being celebrated... Read More »

Built in 1966 and last remodeled in 1998, plans to add four stories atop the existing seven-story building at 633 Folsom Street, adjacent to the 200-foot BLU (631 Folsom), are working their way through Planning. The proposed addition would add 90,000 square feet of office space to the 172,000... Read More »

Demolition for the medical office building which will rise up to nine stories across the street from CPMC’s Cathedral Hill Hospital is well underway and the seven parcels should be cleared for construction by the middle of October. The 250,000 square foot building, which will be connected to the hospital... Read More »

The massive hole which was dug for CPMC’s Cathedral Hill Hospital is quickly being filled, with the steel framing and decking on the west side of the of the site along Franklin having already reached street-level and quickly spreading east towards Van Ness Avenue. We’re still waiting for the... Read More »

Up the street from the McDonald’s site and cater-corner to 1200 Van Ness, the foundation for CPMC’s Cathedral Hill Hospital is being poured and should be finished in April.  The tower cranes for the hospital project will start rising next week. And while originally scheduled to begin late last year,... Read More »

For those wondering how much deeper the massive hole being dug for CPMC’s Cathedral Hill Hospital project will go, the answer is: not much.  In fact, the end of the project’s excavation phase was officially marked this afternoon with a “bottoming out” celebration to commemorate the milestone. In a... Read More »

With the demolition of the old Jack Tar/Cathedral Hill Hotel underway in order to make room for CPMC’s Cathedral Hill Medical Center to rise, a plugged-in tipster delivers a few fantastic photos of the hotel’s demise. The recreation deck is quickly disappearing, the clubhouse/ballroom is only a shell, and... Read More »

As we first reported in March, the revised Development Agreement for CPMC’s proposed Cathedral Hill Campus reduced the height of the Cathedral Hill hospital by two stories within the tower and one story within the podium, decreasing the total proposed building height from 15 floors and 265 feet (above)... Read More »

Slated to be approved by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors tomorrow, the revised Development Agreement for CPMC’s proposed Cathedral Hill Campus and St. Luke’s Hospital calls for a slightly shorter Cathedral Hill Campus and a two story taller St. Luke’s: The height of the proposed Cathedral Hill Hosptial which... Read More »

With the paperwork having been filed to demolish the existing Cathedral Hill Hotel earlier this year, the pre-construction teams for CPMC’s proposed Cathedral Hill campus were sent packing a few months ago as the City and Sutter Health wrangled over the rewritten terms for the new campus which was... Read More »