San Francisco Conservatory is preparing to move into its fancy new digs in the heart of the city’s arts district next fall, and hopes are high that the $80 million facility will finally allow the school to compete with the U.S.’s major conservatories on something closer to an equal footing. “Serving roughly the same number of students and faculty with twice the usable space of [the current building,] it will have at least double the current number of classrooms and practice rooms. The library will be three times [the current] size, and boast a listening room, reading room, and far more computer stations… There will also be an electronic music studio and a recording studio, a café, and a genuine box office for concert ticket sales.”