10 Rules for Smarter Smart Growth

Pravada Parking Pedestal

These days, a lot of projects are crashing through the gates of community plans and dashing existing neighborhood character under[Read More...]

Demolition of Historic Building for Parking Lot Continues

741 F St. Demo

San Diego, 741 F Street, demolition continues on this historic warehouse to make room for surface parking.

The Balboa Park Plaza de Panama Centennial Project is Dead: So Now What?

Balboa Park Centennial

On February 4, 2013, a San Diego Superior Court judge rejected the City’s plans to vacate traffic from Balboa Park,[Read More...]

San Diego’s Parking Lot Blight; Requiem for Redevelopment

741 F St San Diego - former International Male HQ

An ugly side of redevelopment (RIP), a side rarely mentioned in all the self-laudatory hype, is the demolition.  Too often[Read More...]

New Downtown San Diego Arts & Entertainment District Proposed

Historic postcard of Broadway San Diego

An arts & entertainment district is being proposed for San Diego’s downtown for the area North of Broadway, South of[Read More...]

Visioning San Diego Lunch Forum

Martin Luther King, Jr. Promenade, looking West

Tomorrow, Wednesday, September 26th, during lunch hour, there will be a panel discussion on the Downtown Public Open Space Implementation[Read More...]

Demolition and Paving Downtown for Surface Parking Continues

International Male

San Diego – “They took all the trees And put them in a tree museum And they charged all the[Read More...]

City / Park Streetcar Feasibility Study

city-park streetcar study

SDMTS is doing a feasibility study for a streetcar line that will run from Downtown to the San Diego Zoo[Read More...]

Grid Relief: At-Grade Pedestrian Paths

Martin Luther King, Jr. Promenade, looking West

San Diego – The term grid, as used in this article, doesn’t refer to the electricity grid, as does the[Read More...]

Post-redevelopment fees set to go up downtown . . . way up.

FINAL CCDC Fee Schedule page 1

San Diego – On July 1, 2012, the loss of redevelopment will be felt in a very tangible and palpable[Read More...]