What you can do
- Report a construction problem to the City ↗
Use Get It Done for problems in the street or sidewalk around the site, such as blocked sidewalks or debris on Frost St or Children's Way.
- Write to Councilmember Raul Campillo (District 7) ↗
The Councilmember represents Serra Mesa on the Council and can raise construction parking and traffic problems with the City. Use the office's contact form, or call 619-236-6677.
Where it stands
Rady Children's is building a seven-story, 486,000-square-foot pavilion at the southwest corner of Frost Street and Children's Way. It is for pediatric, newborn and heart intensive care, emergency and trauma care, and operating rooms.
It has 140 beds: 126 moved from elsewhere on the campus and 14 new. In 2026 Rady said the seventh floor, first planned as empty space, will get 40 more intensive care beds, for 180 in all. The second floor will hold an imaging center.
Most of the building is 140 feet tall. It rises to 175 feet at the rooftop helipad. The project also adds a 36,000-square-foot utility plant and a 33,500-square-foot connector building. It removes about 76,450 square feet of older buildings. The Planning Commission approved it 5–0 on May 18, 2023.
Rady told the state it expects to finish construction in December 2027 and move patients in by April 2028. Construction costs about $1.4 billion.
In January 2026 the state health facilities financing authority approved a grant of up to $135 million for the pavilion. It also approved up to $820 million in bonds, of which $598 million goes to building it.
Planning group: The planning group voted 7–2 on November 17, 2022 to recommend the project with no conditions.
- Planning Commission staff report
- Planning Commission minutes
- Groundbreaking (Rady Children's)
- State financing authority staff report
- State financing authority minutes
- Steel frame finished; 40 beds added (San Diego Business Journal)
- Expected:Construction finishes
- Expected:Patients move in
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Near The hospital campus