Fire Commission hears detailed update on $275 million Bayview training campus

Scott Moran, project manager for the San Francisco Department of Public Works, told the Fire Commission on May 28 that design and permitting work is advancing for a new Division of Training campus in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood.

Moran said the site is roughly 8 acres and the overall project is "about 150,000 square feet of space," including 12 buildings and 116 parking spaces. He said the program pairs occupied buildings for classrooms and offices with training-only structures that simulate a range of San Francisco building types. "The entire project is about 150,000 square feet of space," Moran said.

The project budget, Moran said, is funded primarily by the city's 2020 bond measure and totals $275,000,000. He outlined the major components: about $145,000,000 anticipated construction cost, roughly $53,800,000 in project control (soft) costs, $39,000,000 used for land purchases, $2,900,000 for art enrichment and approximately $30,100,000 held for contingencies and reserves.

Why it matters: the campus consolidates training now split between Treasure Island and the nineteenth-and-Folsom facility and adds on-site vehicle and urban search-and-rescue exercises, which project staff say will reduce the department's need to schedule external sites for…