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Friday, August 11, 2006
CATHEDRAL HILL HOTEL .... REDUCED TO RUBBLE?
California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) is hoping to build a massive new medical campus and hospital on the site currently occupied by the Cathedral Hill Hotel (formerly the Jack Tar Hotel) on Van Ness between Geary and Post.
A architect's preliminary sketch of the CPMC Van Ness project is seen above.
Currently under consideration by the Planning Department, CPMC would completely demolish the existing hotel building. In its place CPMC would build a massive 331-foot hospital building. The current plans also call for CPMC to build a separate medical office building across Van Ness and construct a pedestrian tunnel beneath the street to connect the primary buildings of the new campus.
CPMC is one of the largest private not-for-profit academic medical centers in California and is affiliated withSutter Health. Sutter Health received an exemplary status award from theJoint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizationsand they have been noted for exceeding national standards for quick response to heart attacks from the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction.
The new CPMC campus will employ more than 4,000 people and bring new life to the Van Ness corridor.
You can read the preliminary Environmental Impact Report filed with the San Francisco Planning Departmenthere.
1 comments:
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It always was a rather embarassing piece of post- modern architecture for SF anyway. Especially if you look at the pre-1906 earthquake photos of the elegants homes that once lined that part of Van Ness Avenue...
1 comments:
It always was a rather embarassing piece of post- modern architecture for SF anyway. Especially if you look at the pre-1906 earthquake photos of the elegants homes that once lined that part of Van Ness Avenue...
But is bigger better?
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