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According to the Daily Pennsylvanian, come this January, Wharton West, will relocate its headquarters from the Folger Building to the Hills Plaza building. Wharton San Francisco, the school’s satellite campus in California is known as Wharton West. Wharton West, which offers MBA and executive MBA programs, celebrates its 10-year anniversary this year.

Wharton hopes the new campus, located near the Embarcadero waterfront, will increase the visibility of its executive M.B.A. program in San Francisco and that it will become a hub for corporate and alumni events.

“The relocation of our campus to Hills Plaza is aligned with our vision to establish Wharton as a vibrant presence on both coasts and, moving forward, to position it as a portal to countries in Asia and the Pacific Rim,” Wharton Dean Thomas Robertson said in a statement.

Wharton West Vice Dean Doug Collum says the Hills Plaza building was selected in part because “it [is] located in the SoMa neighborhood of the city, to ensure that Wharton San Francisco remains in an area known for innovation and entrepreneurship”.

Collum also says “Hills Plaza is also larger than the current five-story, 20,000-square-foot Folger Building that Wharton partly occupies. At 900,000 square feet and 18-stories high, its larger size will help to accommodate growth. Most importantly, the elegance and suitability of [the] space at Hills Plaza [is] commensurate with Wharton standards in Philadelphia.”

Wall Street Jounal reported that the Hills Plaza location will increase campus square footage by 30%, and accommodate as many as 120 students, up from the current 95 at the Folger Building. The new campus will feature 17 group study rooms and three classrooms equipped to facilitate live streaming and video conferencing. This technology will allow Wharton, San Francisco to invite students from the Philadelphia campus, as well as alumni and other participants around the world, to sit in on lectures, speaker series and networking events.

Construction on the Hill Plaza rejuvenation is scheduled to begin this month, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian.

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