A single-story building with a familiar red awning located on the edge of City College of San Francisco's Ocean Campus will soon be no more.
In May, the college will tear down the Bookstore Annex, where thousands of students bought school supplies for decades, Vice Chancellor of Facilities Alberto Vasquez said.
"We're working with PG&E to shut down some utility lines in there that are not part of our separate system," Vasquez said at the college's Facilities Committee in March.
The college awarded Swinerton Builders $527,000 to demolish the building, including hazardous materials remediation, along with the demolition of some bungalows and some other work. The college modified the contract in April to add about $183,000 for unforeseen additional abatement work.
The bookstore left its longtime home at 11 Frida Kahlo Way circa 2014 and moved to Conlan Hall.
Public records indicated the college's book provider, Follett Higher Education Group, terminated its business license for the space in December 2013. It was first registered in 1984.
The site is situated between the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency's idling buses at City College Terminal, traffic on Frida Kahlo Way, the Harry Britt Building's parking lot and Unity Plaza's stairway. The college is planning to place its campus police headquarters there.
