Mission Bay by the Numbers

The central campus green, called the Koret Quad, is one of the many open spaces that are part of the Mission Bay development.
The central campus green, called the Koret Quad, is one of the many open spaces that are part of the Mission Bay development.

 

The Campus

  • 16 years in the making
  • Mission Bay Land: 57 acres, 43 of which were donated by the city of San Franicsco and Catellus Development Corp.
  • Land value: >$170 million in 1996
  • Buildings: 13 research facilities; 3 clinical facilities for the medical center
  • 3 buildings yet to open: UCSF Medical Center, outpatient building, global health faculty building
  • Koret Quad is 3.2 acres
  • Campus Investment: $1.4 billion, from 2001 to 2011
  • Total Investment (including the Medical Center): $3 billion, from 2001 to 2015
  • 52 artists represented throughout the campus

The People

Graduate Division students enjoy a 2012 back-to-school barbecue in Koret Quad.

Graduate Division students enjoy a 2012 back-to-school barbecue in Koret Quad.

  • 4 chancellors involved in creating and expanding Mission Bay (Joseph Martin, MD, PhD; Haile Debas, MD; J. Michael Bishop, MD; Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH)
  • 3 Nobel laureates currently doing research on campus (Stanley Prusiner, MD; Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD; Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD)
  • 300 students
  • 1,003 construction jobs
  • UCSF employees: 2,990 on campus; 1,000 in surrounding area
  • 891 residents in Mission Bay housing, including 59 children.
  • Mission Bay outpatient visits per year: 85,334

The Operations

  • Rock climbers scale the wall at Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center.

    Rock climbers scale the wall at Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center.

    Mission Bay Conference Center hosts 512 events per year, serving 57,980 people
  • Bakar Fitness and Recreation Center: 6,759 members, with an average daily attendance of 1,106
  • 10,000 vials of immortalized cell lines for research from the UCSF Cell Culture Facility
  • The UCSF Cell Culture Facility provides $250,000 worth of kits and reagents at Mission Bay per month
  • Millions of fruit flies singularly focused on teaching us how our bodies work
  • A 7-tesla MRI machine offers the highest-quality scans available
  • 8 eateries feeding the Mission Bay community
  • >100 vending machines offer Smart Choice options