No news is good news for the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
Following a meeting with the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency in early August, the museum still plans on breaking ground on its Jessie Street home in late 2006, completing the structure in late 2007 and opening its doors in early 2008, as museum officials have been predicting for much of the past year.
The redevelopment agency unanimously approved the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s building design at that Aug. 2 meeting, the last public forum museum CEO Connie Wolf anticipates.
Roselyne “Cissie” Swig, the museum’s board president, said that fund-raising for the $75 million capital campaign and endowment fund continues; at least 50 percent of that goal was reached by early 2004. Swig and Wolf said the museum is not yet ready to move out of its fund-raising “quiet phase.”
Wolf said the museum would continue to send updates to the redevelopment agency and city’s landmark preservation advisory board. She added that, while she expects the adjoining Mexican Museum to progress with its building project on schedule, should it falter it would not affect the CJM’s timetable in any way.