Vanderbilt University Is Indeed Opening an SF Campus, and It Will Be at Potrero Hill's California College of the Arts

"Get ready for Vanderbilt University San Francisco, and part of it will be called California College of the Arts Institute at Vanderbilt, as Vanderbilt has basically bought up the dying husk of the California College of the Arts. There has been some hopeful rumor floating around for the last six months or so that the prestigious Nashville-based Vanderbilt University might open a downtown San Francisco campus, as SF leaders have spent the last few years aggressively trying to court a university to open downtown."

"Well, Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Tuesday morning that Vanderbilt will indeed open an SF campus, as the Chronicle reports. But in terms of the new Vanderbilt campus engineering some sort of downtown SF recovery, that ain't gonna happen, as the new Vanderbilt SF satellite campus will not exactly be downtown. That's because Vanderbilt is buying up the Potrero Hill campus of the effectively doomed California College of the Arts (CCA)."

Vanderbilt University is establishing a San Francisco campus by purchasing the Potrero Hill campus of the struggling California College of the Arts. Part of the new campus will be named California College of the Arts Institute at Vanderbilt. The campus location sits on the border of Potrero Hill and Mission Bay, roughly six blocks from the Chase Center, and is not located in downtown San Francisco. Mayor Daniel Lurie welcomed the investment and described it as evidence of the city's resurgence. Vanderbilt will carry forward CCA’s legacy and continue educating future creative leaders.

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