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The Dream of Local Fades at Market Creek Plaza
From his seat at the Starbucks last week, Charles Johnson looked out the window and across the parking lot to his now-shuttered restaurant on the other side. “It was my wife’s dream, not mine,” he...
View ArticleAnother View of Market Creek Plaza
In my story about Market Creek Plaza last week, I focused on the closure of several locally owned businesses in the retail center that was developed by the nonprofit Jacobs Family Foundation. I thought...
View ArticleResidents Respond to Latest Failure at Market Creek Plaza
Southeastern San Diego residents are responding to the closure of Magnolias Restaurant, whose failure at Market Creek Plaza I wrote about last week. The San Diego Central Black Chamber of Commerce will...
View ArticleVoices from the Diamond
Readers are chiming in on the nonprofit Jacobs Foundation’s plans for community redevelopment in the Diamond neighborhoods of southeastern San Diego. Here’s a letter from Barry Pollard, a former...
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Top Execs Out at Major Southeastern San Diego Nonprofit
The two top executives at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, the nonprofit driving a massive redevelopment project in southeastern San Diego, have left the organization. Jennifer Vanica,...
View ArticleSan Diego’s Sounds of Silence
“Where there’s a music shall be comin’ out of every car There is a silence all over downtown” — Gogol Bordello, “Tribal Connection” Tucked away in the recent edition of Newsweek is a less-than...
View ArticleMeet Me in District 4
I’ll be spending all next week in Encanto, Valencia Park, Emerald Hills, Paradise Hills, Skyline and the other southeastern neighborhoods that make up San Diego’s Fourth City Council District. The...
View ArticleMorning Report: On Homeless, SD Left in Lurch
According to the numbers, only two metro areas in the whole country — New York City and Los Angeles — have more homeless people than San Diego County. But, as our reporting discovers, we’re not at...
View ArticleWanted: A Place to Go in District 4
When I arrived this morning at the Starbucks on Euclid Avenue in San Diego’s Fourth City Council District, the coffee shop was living up to its reputation as the de facto gathering spot for the...
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District 4 From a Different View
I’m focusing a lot on business and development issues in southeastern San Diego during my time in the community in the run-up to the District 4 special election. But something else has struck me as...
View ArticleWhen the Foundation Becomes the Developer
The scene could have taken place in the office of any big-time developer in town. A colorful map rested on an easel. A project director used inside baseball terms like “MOU” and “discretionary...
View ArticleGetting Specific in D4: A Reader’s Guide to Dwayne Crenshaw
Dwayne Crenshaw figures he has one year to prove to San Diego 4th District voters that he can deliver. He’s tailored his campaign for the March 26 special election to finish former Councilman Tony...
View ArticleWhat Encanto Wants
Civic San Diego says it can help improve quality of life in Encanto. It’s got a plan to do so that it’s been pushing for almost a year, but it still needs decision makers to sign off. But lost in the...
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Jacobs Center Ready for Another Shot at Long-Promised Neighborhood...
Let’s try this again. The Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation is again working on a plan it has pursued for years: developing almost 60 acres it owns in the area surrounding Market Creek Plaza in...
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