Mission Bay, San Francisco

The Mission Bay neighborhood of San Francisco was created in 1998 by the Board of Supervisors as a redevelopment project. Much of the land was along a railyard of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. It has rapidly evolved in to a wealthy neighborhood of luxury condominiums, high-end restaurants and retail, and biotechnology research and development

The William J. Rutter Center is named after William J. Rutter, who co-founded the Chiron Corporation in 1981. Chiron grew to be a major biotechnology firm, focusing on developing vaccines and tests for infectious disease, including hepatitis, and is now among the world's largest biotechnology companies,