Downtown San Diego promises to be one of the most beautiful and prominent waterfront urban communities in the country. Much development took place since early 2000 and many more development projects are scheduled to be completed by 2028. Below we offer relevant information, renderings, photos and videos of our favorite public and/or private redevelopment projects that took place, currently taking place or scheduled for the near future in downtown San Diego.
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DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
NORTH EMBARCADERO VISIONARY PLAN
The North Embarcadero Visionary Plan is a multi-phased redevelopment of the downtown San Diego Waterfront. It proposes to move harbor drive 40 feet East and build and esplanade. It also includes public arts displays, tree groves and open spaces.
PROJECT STATUS: COMPLETED
WATERFRONT PARK
The County Administration Building Waterfront Park is a new waterfront park covering 8 acres of prime space in the Columbia (Waterfront) District.
The parking lots surrounding the historic County Administration Building were transformed into 8 acres of green space with children’s play areas, water features and underground parking. Project cost was $49.4 million.
PROJECT STATUS: COMPLETED
MANCHESTER PACIFIC GATEWAY
After selling most of this project to IQHQ for the new Research and Development District project, the Manchester Pacific Gateway project got reduced to a 2 city block site that will be comprised of a 1,035 room hotel and a 2 acre park.
PROJECT STATUS: FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT (RADD)
Downtown San Diego’s Research and Development District (RaDD) being developed by IQHQ is an 8 city block, $1.5 billion life science campus that is comprised of 5 buildings for lab, office and retail use.
PROJECT STATUS: UNDER DEVELOPMENT
RADY SHELL
Located in the Embarcadero Marina Park South in Downtown San Diego the $45 million outdoor concert and events venue that has quickly become a San Diego landmark.
This incredible location offers an incredible bay and skyline view making it a world class outdoor venue.
PROJECT STATUS: COMPLETED
SEAPORT San Diego
Called Seaport San Diego, the $1.6 billion project, backed in part by San Diego’s famed Jacobs family, was selected by the Port of San Diego in November 2016 to redevelop 70 acres — 39 land acres and 31 water acres.
It will include hotels, retail, office, parking, waterside docks, an education center, observation tower and aquarium, paddle board dock, a beach and a bridge that connect to Embarcadero Marina Park South.
PROJECT STATUS: FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
LANE FIELD
Lane Field has been used as a parking lot structure for cruise boat passengers and the general public. Before that it served as a baseball stadium from 1936 to 1957. The Lane Field project includes three hotel towers totaling 800 rooms, a 2 acre public park, 60,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space and approximately 1,000 parking space.
Lane Field south hosts the Intercontinental Hotel and Lane Field North hosts 2 Marriott Suites hotel.
PROJECT STATUS: COMPLETED
Ruocco Park
Ruocco Park is located on 3.3 acres along the San Diego Waterfront, next to Seaport Village, west of Pacific Highway and South of Harbor Drive.
Ruocco Park is an open green space that integrates the use of hardscape, ornamental horticulture and art.
PROJECT STATUS: COMPLETED
OLD POLICE HEADQUARTERS
Located next to San Diego’s Seaport Village, the San Diego Old Police Headquarters (OPH), a San Diego designated historic building was built 1930′s and served remained active and used by the San Diego police until 1987.
Vacant for over 25 years the project is expected to restore, rehab and reuse the building, courtyards and surrounding areas for retail, restaurant and entertainment use as well as public market use. It will also add about 1 acres of public park plaza area adjacent to the buildings.
PROJECT STATUS: COMPLETED
HARBOR DRIVE PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE
The bridge was designed to be one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian suspension bridges in the world (550 feet) since completion it has become a San Diego Icon.
The Bridge’s design is to resemble that of a sail to fit with San Diego’s nautical history and its main purpose is to link two of San Diego’s biggest assets: The San Diego Bay and Balboa Park.
PROJECT STATUS: COMPLETED
CONVENTION CENTER ROOFTOP PARK
The main features of this 5 acre waterfront park include:
- 350 Seat, 5,000 Sq Ft Pavillion with a main stage allowing events of all sizes.
- Central gathering area with shade and benches and reading room.
- Coastal chaparral: a garden area complete with vegetation and landscape representative of California.
PROJECT STATUS: FUTURE DEVELOPMENT
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO QUIET ZONE
The San Diego Quiet Zone project was a $20.6 million endeavor to improve safety features of railroad crossings and also to help residents that were being burdened by constant train noise.
The quiet zone covers the 13 crossings between Laurel Street and Park Blvd and train conductors are now required to stop the honking at railroad crossings because all crossing have been revamped to take on necessary precautions and safety features.
PROJECT STATUS: COMPLETED
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