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City presents multi-project Justice Facilities plan; $216M forensic center proposed in Mission Bay
Summary
San Francisco public works and police officials presented a phased plan to replace and redistribute Hall of Justice functions, proposing a Forensic Sciences Center at 1600 Owens Street in Mission Bay and multi-hundred-million-dollar projects for a new police headquarters and a Sixth Street jail; DPW gave cost and schedule estimates and tied near-term work to capital planning and funding availability.
Department of Public Works staff told the Police Commission on Nov. 12 that the city is pursuing a multi-year Justice Facilities Improvement Program (JFIP) to address seismic, space and operational shortcomings at the Hall of Justice. Charles Hageras and Jim Buecher of DPW outlined a phased approach that avoids a single billion-dollar replacement and instead relocates and “rightsizes” functions across multiple sites.
The DPW presentation said the first project would be a Forensic Sciences Center to consolidate the Office of Chief Medical Examiner and the Forensic Services Division at 1600 Owens Street in Mission Bay. DPW said bridging documents would be completed by February, tenant improvements could…
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