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City officials outline Mission Bay public safety building: 300,000‑sq‑ft complex, LEED Gold, groundbreaking scheduled
Summary
Public Works and SFPD presenters showed plans for a roughly 300,000‑square‑foot Mission Bay Public Safety Building that will house police headquarters, a Southern Station and a fire facility; presenters said the project targets LEED Gold, includes high seismic standards and a 26‑month construction window beginning this fall.
John Goldberg of the SFPD administration bureau and Charles Gutierrez of Public Works presented detailed plans for a new Mission Bay Public Safety Building that the presenters said will consolidate police headquarters, a Southern Station and a fire station into a roughly 300,000‑square‑foot facility.
"This project has been underdeveloped for a number of years," Charles Gutierrez said, describing the effort as part of a citywide priority to replace the Hall of Justice. Gutierrez told the commission the facility will seek LEED Gold certification and will incorporate enhanced seismic design and emergency systems — including a generator able to power essential functions for 96 hours and on‑site potable water and effluent storage to support operations in a major incident.
Gutierrez said the project will repurpose historic Fire Station 30 for the fire‑related functions and provide a ground‑floor community meeting space for Mission Bay. He described a two‑wing building with a central core for police headquarters functions and secure fleet parking at the rear; presenters emphasized there will be no public parking on site and that visitor parking would be accommodated across the street at Giants Parking Lot A.
On schedule and costs: presenters said construction was planned to start in the fall and estimated roughly 26 months of construction, with occupancy expected in spring or summer 2013. Gutierrez referenced the June 2010 earthquake safety and emergency response bond that the presentation tied to a set of projects; the spoken record cited packet figures described in the meeting as "4.12," "2.43," "104" and "65." Those numbers were spoken in the meeting packet context and the transcript does not specify currency units or label them explicitly, so the record here treats the figures as presented without adding units or inferring currency.
Commissioners asked whether the medical examiner's office, crime lab and other forensic functions would move immediately. Gutierrez said those elements are planned in later phases and that the administration anticipates pursuing a follow‑up bond measure (identified in the presentation as ESCR — Earthquake Safety and Emergency Response — intended for a November 2013 ballot) to fund additional forensic and public‑safety facilities. He also invited commissioners to the groundbreaking, scheduled the morning after the meeting at 11:30 a.m. at the project site.
Why it matters: the project consolidates major public safety functions in a seismically robust, secured facility in Mission Bay and is presented as a multi‑year effort tied to voter‑approved and proposed bond measures; it will affect station footprints, forensic operations and community access in the surrounding redevelopment area.
Next steps: Public Works said construction would begin this fall and continue for about 26 months; the administration and design team will return to the commission for review and approvals as required. The commission took no formal vote on the project tonight; the presentation was informational and commissioners asked for follow‑up on phasing for forensic units and bond‑measure details.
