Having purchased Mission Bay Blocks 33 and 34, which are across the street from UCSF’s Mission Bay Medical Center and adjacent to the Warriors Arena site, from Salesforce.com last year, UCSF is getting ready to break ground on its first phase of the 3.8-acre site’s development. As proposed, a... Read More »

The newly formed Mission Bay Alliance, a nonprofit funded by an anonymous group of individuals who have been described as “big-bucks donors to UCSF,” has been organizing to block the Golden State Warriors’ plans for a Mission Bay Arena. Concerned about the impact of traffic and congestion from the... Read More »

Hot on the heels of Mission Bay’s only Children’s Park which is slated to open this May, the 2.4-acre “Mariposa Park” under construction on the southern most portion of Mission Bay, to the north of Mariposa Street, between Interstate 280 and UCSF’s new Medical Center, is slated to be... Read More »

With 200 units of affordable housing slated to soon break ground on the western three-quarters of Mission Bay Block 7, construction on a new 92,000-square-foot home for Family House is underway on the eastern quarter of the block, fronting Third Street between China Basin and Mission Bay Boulevard North.... Read More »

Having broken ground in 2010, construction on UCSF’s Medical Center at Mission Bay is officially complete, finishing eight days ahead of schedule. The 289-bed hospital and medical building will be outfitted over the next five months. And on February 1, 2015, the $1.5 billion children’s, women’s and cancer hospital... Read More »

Salesforce.com has acquired the undeveloped portions of Mission Bay lots 26 and 27 and all of Mission Bay lots 29-34, a total of 14 South Mission Bay acres, from Alexandria Real Estate Equities for $278 Million with the intention of building a nearly 2 million square-foot campus, four times... Read More »

Having started clearing the site long ago, today the ground was officially broken for UCSF’s Mission Bay Medical Center. Once again, if all goes as planned, the new facility should be ready for operations in 2014. And an old aerial for perspective: Read More »

Thanks to “both the economic recession and the innovative strategies being used to manage…design and construction,” the construction cost for UCSF’s Medical Center at Mission Bay will be “at least $200 million below the original cost estimate.” An anonymous pledge for a new $100 million donation brings the current fundraising... Read More »

The abatement (asbestos) and demolition of the warehouses at 1900 3rd Street is moving quickly, and site prep for UCSF’s new Mission Bay Medical Center is scheduled to begin in March. If all goes as planned, the new facility should be ready for operations in 2014. The buildings being... Read More »

By way of a plugged-in tipster, the latest rendering of UCSF’s proposed Medical Center at Mission Bay. Design by Anshen + Allen and watercolor by Al Forster. UPDATE: A plugged-in reader gets you oriented: While another suggests the video (bottom on the page). Read More »