Stanford and Sutter Health to Build Oakland Cancer Center

Stanford Health Care and Sutter Health have permission to build a 170,000-square-foot joint cancer treatment center north of Downtown Oakland.

The Palo Alto- and Sacramento-based health care firms won final permits to construct the seven-story medical building at 3023 Summit Street, the San Francisco Business Times reported.

The $58 million joint venture’s project will rise at Sutter’s Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Pill Hill, a neighborhood named for its cluster of hospitals and health care centers. Two medical office buildings will be demolished.

The project aims to create a “one-stop-shop” for cancer treatment, from screening to recovery, according to a 2019 announcement. It will include an infusion center, outpatient operating rooms and radiation capabilities.

A construction timeline for the Stanford Medical Sutter Health Cancer Center was not disclosed.

The Oakland center follows the 2019 opening of Stanford’s four-story, 70,000 square-foot Cancer Center in San Jose, according to the Business Times.

The clinical treatment center brought multidisciplinary doctors and nurses to each patient’s room, rather than making patients move from department to department during their stay.

In September 2022, Sutter Health sold a 130,000-square-foot medical office building in San Francisco’s Lower Pacific Heights to doctor tenants for $44.5 million, or $342 per square foot.

Two months earlier, Sutter also sold two medical office buildings with a combined 59,300 square feet in Sunnyvale for $27 million, or $464 per square foot.

In May last year, Sutter also decided to sell its closed Presidio Heights CPMC campus with no asking price, rather than building the 273 homes it took five years to approve on the 5-acre site.

— Dana Bartholomew