Public Safety Building

Civic building

Public Safety Building (civic building, run by the Police Department): $26,534 paid to contractors for work here, $815.3M budgeted for its department in FY2025, 3,007 employees on the payroll, 4 city documents at the Internet Archive, every figure linked to its source. The Public Safety Building was sold to voters as a line in a bond. The voter information pamphlet for Proposition B describes an earthquake safety and emergency response measure whose projects included upgrades to the Auxiliary Water Supply System, the construction and seismic retrofitting of fire stations, and construction of a new Public Safety Building in Mission Bay that would house the Police Command Center, the Southern District Police Station and a neighborhood fire station — drafted, the pamphlet insists, so that it would not increase property tax rates, and subject to independent citizen oversight of spending. The bond passed in June 2010, and Public Works' annual report for that year lists the building among the new capital projects it had begun overseeing, at $239 million. The construction permit followed in 2012 — erect a six-storey building of police headquarters and fire station — declared at $164 million and since completed, with a separate $3.7 million permit turning an existing vacated fire station on the site into a community room and office for the fire department. The building carries commissioned art as well: the Arts Commission first noted it in 2010 as a new project for its committee, and by 2014 the visual arts committee was reviewing time-lapse images of the installation of Shimon Attie's artwork, and the difficulty of raising its mammoth glass cylinder. Source: SF Controller open data and the Internet Archive.