Mission Accomplished

CCSF’s new Mission Campus delivers functionality

By Robert Carlsen

It’s not easy to keep up with the construction activity at City College of San Francisco’s half a dozen satellite campuses and facilities.

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A bond renovation-rebuilding measure, totaling $440 million, got the ball rolling and, since 2001, a number of projects have come to fruition, including an architecturally pleasing Student Health Center and a Child Development Center, both located and open at the main Ocean Avenue Campus.

Other current, under construction, projects include a 157,000-sq-ft Community Wellness Center at the Ocean Avenue Campus. Scottsdale-based Hunt Construction Group is handling the construction management chores on the wellness center, with a design by KMD Architects and K2A, both based in San Francisco. The project is scheduled for a December completion.

Another project under way is the seismic upgrade and reconstruction of the John Adams Campus, with San Francisco-based Plant Construction acting as general contractor and Paul Roberts & Partners of Vallejo the designer. Work is expected to be completed later this year.

But CCSF’s big project currently is a brand new campus in the Mission District. The three-building Mission Campus is being constructed in a tight, congested site at Valencia and 22nd streets and it incorporates the adjacent 72-year-old art nouveau buildings that were the former home of Downtown High School.

The San Francisco office of McCarthy Building Cos., along with the design by the joint venture of Cervantes Design Associates and Kendall Young Associates in association with ED-2 International, will soon unveil their creation just in time for the fall semester.

All three design firms are based in San Francisco.

The $45 million project includes a total of 198,000 sq ft of newly built and renovated space in two new buildings and a modernization/seismic upgrade of one existing building. The site is bounded on two sides by private, multi-level residences and commercial space and has been built lot-line to lot-line, which requires significant underpinning and the use of interior scaffolding, says McCarthy project manager Steve Fernandes.

The project includes classrooms, specialty rooms and laboratories as well as science, art, digital imaging/printing areas and radio and television studios. Other program spaces include a 50-car basement parking structure, café, bookstore, courtyard between the buildings, conference rooms, multipurpose rooms, administrative and student services offices and support spaces.

Fernandes says McCarthy broke up the project in as many packages as it could in order to accommodate as many small businesses as possible.

“Normally, you would get about 25 to 30 subs, but we had 45 to 50,” he adds.

Major subcontractors on the Mission campus project include: