Plans have been revealed for a $1 Billion medical campus in Emeryville, Alameda County. The announcement comes after the Sacramento-based not-for-profit Sutter Health purchased the 12-acre Emery Yards development in the densely-built city, featuring two existing multi-story structures, a massive parking garage, and several vacant lots. Sutter Health will be collaborating with Sutter East Bay Medical Group to manage the site.
Emeryville Campus overview, image courtesy Sutter Health
Images shared by Sutter Health alongside yesterday’s announcement show an aerial image of the newly built complex at 5555 Hollis Street. Both that and the adjacent building at 5300 Chiron Street will eventually offer outpatient services. Parking will be included for 1,992 cars, including inside the multi-level garage along Horton Street.
The group also hopes to construct a new 335,000-square-foot medical center with up to 200 beds, an ICU, and emergency services alongside a long list of facilities for medical care. Construction is expected to open as early as 2032. Details about the design have yet to be established.
Emery Yards masterplan with completed structured highlighted in yellow, image courtesy BioMed Realty
Sutter East Bay Medical Group is a multi-specialty group within the Sutter Health umbrella. Sutter Health is a not-for-profit healthcare provider serving over three million patients across California and Hawaii. The Sacramento-based system has over 57,000 staff members and clinicians alongside 12,000 affiliated physicians.
The president and CEO of Sutter Health, Warner Thomas, said in the press release that “our Emeryville campus project represents one of the most significant investments we’re making across our system over the next decade and is part of our broader vision to meet the community’s growing demand for expanded access to our services across the East Bay footprint.”
5555 Sutter Street and 5300 Chiron Street, image courtesy of Sutter Health
The announcement by Sutter Health came yesterday morning after the firm closed the purchase of Emery Yards, the 12-acre masterplan from BioMed Reality, yesterday, according to reporting by Hannah Kanik for the San Francisco Business Times.
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Emeryville and Piedmont are such economic nuisances to Oakland. They suck up so much retail tax revenue (Emeryville) and wealthy property tax revenue (Piedmont) right from under Oakland’s nose. Now this.
I don’t know how much of a loss this particular project will really be for Berkeley and Oakland. This project won’t pay property taxes, and employees will live in Berkeley and Oakland at similar rates to a project on the other side of the city border. Employees and visitors will patronize local eateries, so that is good for Emeryville, but that is pretty minor in the scheme of things.
Maybe if Oakland actually learned how to vote in their best interest, you wouldn’t need to worry about this.
Unfortunately Oakland has chosen and they want their city in the state it is in.
Any time a development is proposed in West Oakland people lose their minds. There’s a large segment that prefers it to be crappy so prices are cheaper. Emeryville is more development friendly and projects get approved fairly quickly. There’s no reason West Oakland shouldn’t be similar or even denser than Emeryville.
Every BART sttaion, for that matter, should be build up exactly how Emeryville has done it.
Oakland needs to learn how to plan for the future and attract deveopment. There is no reason other than corruption and incompetence that Oakland isn’t incentivising the same development that Emeryville has recieved.
Just a few decades ago, Emeryville was a corrupt, crime ridden town with decayed housing, mafia fronts, strip clubs and shady casinos. Oakland, which is starting with a huge advantage, has no excuse.
I didn’t know that about Emeryville’s history. From ChatGPT:
Emeryville, California, has a history of vice activities, including gambling and prostitution, especially during the early to mid-20th century. Following Oakland’s crackdown on gambling in 1919, Emeryville began licensing card clubs, leading to the proliferation of establishments such as the Santa Fe Club, King Midas Club, Bank Club, Key Club, Alemo Club, Avalon Club, and Oaks Club along San Pablo Avenue. During Prohibition and the Great Depression, the city was known for its numerous speakeasies, racetracks, and brothels, earning a reputation as a somewhat lawless red-light district. Earl Warren, then Alameda County district attorney, described it as “the rottenest city on the Pacific Coast.”
Oakland’s problems are largely self-inflicted.
Curious about the impact this will have on Sutter’s Oakland campus and recently-built hospital. Hard to imagine that two hospitals a few miles from each other are needed serving the same demographic. Is the patient population increasing enough to support this $1bn investment? There’s also Kaiser in the same market…
Building with the future in mind? If all gets built accordingly, Berkely has several thousand new residences in the works, right?
There is still so much empty land around Emeryville and West Oakland. Maybe the project is jumping the gun, but I surely enjoy another lot filling in with pronounced height.
Me too. I live in the area of West Oakland that shares Emeryville’s zip code and our mail comes from their Post Office. I’ve been watching the construction of this campus and nearby redevelopment of former Sherwin Williams paint factory into residential. I thought this campus was being developed for medical labs/research. Maybe Sutter is going to use it for those types of uses? They are currently building a new medical office building on Pill Hill…