Print For months now, workers have been pouring a new foundation on a triangular piece of ground on the northern edge of the Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla campus. Cement trucks are now delivering the beginnings of a $664 million, seven-story medical tower that will mirror an adjacent and nearly-identical v-shaped structure that opened in 2015 and houses the Prebys Cardiovascular Institute on Genesee Avenue just east of Interstate 5. Though work is already underway, Scripps will hold an official groundbreaking ceremony for its latest investment on Thursday. “We started construction during the height of COVID, and we couldn’t do a ceremony then, so it’s a little after the fact, but it’s still exciting,” said Chris Van Gorder, Scripps’ chief executive officer.