[CPEO-BIF] "UCSF Mission Bay marks 10 years, " San Francisco, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

UCSF Mission Bay marks 10 years

Erin Allday
San Francisco Chronicle
January 22, 2013

When Keith Yamamoto moved into his fifth-floor office at UCSF's  
Mission Bay campus a decade ago, he felt like a pioneer - and maybe,  
just a little, like a pariah.

Several of his colleagues had told Yamamoto, who was helping plan the  
new campus, that they would refuse to ever work there. Mission Bay at  
the time was a "wasteland," he said.

...

A decade later, those plans have largely been realized. Mission Bay  
is still a work in progress, but what was once a dusty outpost is now  
a sunny, vibrant hub of medical research.

...

Mission Bay, once a dead industrial site on the edge of San Francisco  
Bay, is home to not just UCSF but also the independent Gladstone  
Institutes and several startup companies. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer  
has set up a lab.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/default/article/UCSF-Mission-Bay-marks-10- 
years-4215668.php

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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