A Density Hustle in Bankers Hill?

Source December 2, 2024 19 Comments

By Kate Callen

A development project in Bankers Hill using San Diego’s Complete Communities would demolish a historic building to build a six-story medical complex on the rim of iconic Maple Canyon — yet the building isn’t really historic and the medical complex may end up being residential, and the canyon rim is not actually a steep slope.

The canyon rim property at 2660 1st Avenue property was bought by the San Diego American Indian Health Center (SDAIHC) for $6 million in 2017. Earlier this year, SDAIHC applied for a permit to build a bigger medical complex. The proposal was submitted as part of Complete Communities because housing might be included.

San Diego’s Development Services Department (DSD) is ready to grant ministerial approval for the project. But SDAIHC just listed the property for sale at $20 million, more than triple the 2017 price. The project is branded “1st and Maple.” Global real estate giant Jones Lang LaSalle is shepherding it.

Fall Gives Us a Colorful Hurrah!

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Cañon Street Pocket Park in Point Loma Finally Opens

Staff December 2, 2024 15 Comments

By Geoff Page

The City of San Diego held its ribbon cutting ceremony for the Cañon Street Pocket Park Wednesday, November 27 at 10:00 a.m. The event was originally to take place 11:00 a.m. the previous Wednesday, November 20, but the city cancelled it at the last moment with little explanation.

Without a doubt, all the stories that have appeared, or will appear, about this park opening will be positive to a fault and will probably consist of the city’s announcement word for word. This account will not be one of those.

For starters, the time for this ceremony was a head scratcher. Most of the public would ordinarily be working at ten or eleven on a Wednesday morning. The re-scheduling was equally puzzling, holding the ceremony on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving when most of the public was busy with the holiday.

But, after much experience with the City of San Diego, looking for common sense is a fool’s pursuit.

There was a small crowd of people at the opening. A good number of those people, however, were either city people, news media, Peninsula Community Planning Board members, and others not necessarily the “public.”