What the Precinct Is
City College of San Francisco is building the Diego Rivera Performing Arts Center on its Ocean Campus at 50 Frida Kahlo Way. The college broke ground on 22 January 2026. The Guardsman, the college's student newspaper, reports a $181 million budget from a 2020 bond measure and a scheduled finish in 2028.
LMN Architects leads the design. TEF Design is executive architect. The project record lists 77,000 square feet, three concrete volumes and three performance venues. A 600-seat auditorium, a 150-seat studio theatre and a 100-seat recital hall. A mural lobby joins the three volumes and frames Diego Rivera's Pan American Unity.
Rudolph and Sletten, a Tutor Perini subsidiary, holds the construction contract at $155 million. The award was announced on 17 December 2025. The design targets LEED New Construction Gold.
Where It Sits
The campus occupies the Ingleside district, south of the city centre. From the campus coordinates, Union Square measures 7.87 km as a straight line. Moscone Center South measures 7.77 km. Road distance runs longer, and no page publishes a drive time.
Interstate 280, the John F Foran Freeway, passes 0.46 km from the campus centre. The Ocean Avenue interchange sits inside that distance. A coach arriving from the airport or the Peninsula reaches the campus without crossing the downtown grid.
Two Rail Stops Inside 600 Metres
The Muni Metro City College station sits 0.32 km from the campus centre. Balboa Park station, served by BART and Muni, sits 0.55 km away. Both figures are straight-line measures from published coordinates. Walking times need their own measurement on the day.
Rail suits a group already on the Muni or BART network. A group staying downtown needs the coach for the leg.
The Set-Down Question
No page this desk read publishes a coach set-down, a layover bay, a group entrance or a waiting window at this campus. The building has not been handed over. The college holds those answers.
Put four items in writing before the itinerary goes to a client. Name the approved set-down point. Name the standing or layover location. State whether the coach may remain on campus through a performance. Walk the route from the set-down to the lobby and confirm a group of 60 clears every live lane.
Nothing to Visit Before Handover
The published programme carries no event, no opening hour and no ticket. No page fixes an opening date beyond the 2028 finish. The mural moves into the new lobby at handover.
Two Day Shapes
Shape one runs downtown first. Morning at a museum or a conference, coach south on the freeway, an afternoon at the precinct, a freeway return. Shape two puts the precinct first, on the way into the city from the airport, and follows with the downtown block.
Both shapes use the freeway twice and keep the coach off the city grid at peak. The operator times the legs.
Sequencing the Halls
A lobby visit covers the mural and the building. A performance adds one of the three halls. A performance time fixes every other leg of the day, and the college sets it.
Book the lobby visit first. It is the part of the day the group can move.
Six Answers Before Selling the Stop
The opening date. The public days and hours. The reservation rule for groups. The group ticket, if one exists, and its price. The set-down and standing arrangements. The programme a group sees when a hall is dark.
Until those answers exist, the precinct belongs in a 2029 itinerary and in a landmark pointed out from the freeway.