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Anybody know what these cranes are building?
Not my picture, found on Reddit: https://i.redd.it/w69b4dl42nla1.jpg |
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Oh I did not know that PCE already started construction!
Sorely needed student housing |
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https://today.ucsd.edu/news_uploads/...on-housing.jpg Ridge Walk North doesn't seem to have much online yet. But I found this one when googling: https://www.henselphelps.com/wp-cont...LEVEL_DUSK.jpg |
Children's park is still under construction after groundbreaking in May of 2021
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...58848cb2_b.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d2b21b4e_b.jpg |
I saw this article/video that was pretty interesting. I also posted it on the main City Discussions forum:
How one downtown rebounded from the pandemic, even as others struggle BY ASH-HAR QURAISHI, AMY CORRAL, RYAN BEARD MARCH 7, 2023 / 6:00 AM / CBS NEWS https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-die...ties-struggle/ Quote:
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UC San Diego to spend $1.1 billion to build huge student center and campus housing
https://www.lajollalight.com/news/st...campus-housing A rendering depicts the Triton Center, which will house student services as well as health, alumni and outreach programs. A rendering depicts the Triton Center, which will house student services as well as health, alumni and outreach programs. (UC San Diego) The Triton Center is meant to become the beating heart of the university, and Ridgewalk North will become one of the school’s largest residential villages. BY GARY ROBBINS MARCH 22, 2023 8 AM PT Show more sharing options Continuing a decade-long boom, the University of California Board of Regents has given its San Diego campus in La Jolla permission to build a huge student center and a 2,400-bed housing complex that will jointly cost $1.1 billion. The campus said it will start constructing the Triton Center and the Ridgewalk North Living and Learning Neighborhood this summer while the school is in the midst of building two other villages that will house 3,130 students. Newsletter Get the La Jolla Light weekly in your inbox News, features and sports about La Jolla, every Thursday for free Enter email address Enter email address SIGN ME UP You may occasionally receive promotional content from the La Jolla Light. The projects are part of a larger effort by the regents to accommodate thousands more students, primarily from California. Over the past decade, the system’s enrollment has soared by 55,610 students, hitting 294,309. The growth has caused a serious housing shortage. “We’re very committed to expanding student housing,” said Rich Leib, a San Diego businessman who serves as chairman of the Board of Regents. “Studies have shown that students do better when they live close together. And the housing we’re talking about generally has rents that are 20 to 30 percent below market prices.” A substantial portion of that growth is occurring at UCSD, which still has room to expand. The campus currently has about 43,000 students, up from 29,517 in fall 2013. Chancellor Pradeep Khosla says enrollment could reach 50,000 in about a decade. The $428 million Triton Center complex will be composed of four buildings that will house everything from student health services to an alumni and welcome center. One of the buildings will include a 500-person event space and an art gallery. A rendering shows the Ridgewalk North Living and Learning Neighborhood. A rendering shows the Ridgewalk North Living and Learning Neighborhood.(UC San Diego ) In addition to 2,400 beds for undergraduates, Ridgewalk North will feature administrative and teaching space for Thurgood Marshall College, the School of Global Policy and Strategy and the Department of Economics, the campus said. There will be 19 new classrooms, a dining center and a 150-seat lecture hall. The village will look like a small city. One of its buildings will be 18 stories tall, another will be 16 stories and a third will be 10. A separate academic building will rise to six stories. UCSD already is building six residential towers that range in height from 16 to 22 stories. Ridgewalk North will be not far from Geisel Library. It is scheduled to open in late 2025. Triton Center, which will be close to a campus Blue Line trolley station, will open in 2026. The projects are being built “in pursuit of the intellectual, physical and cultural transformation of our campus,” Khosla said in a statement. ◆ |
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I've trawled around and there's only a couple renderings available and no site plans for the Ridgewalk development. The article includes this rendering: https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/d...Fridgewalk.jpg Buildings at 18, 16, 10 and 6 stories. Streamliner also shared another rendering a few posts up. Project is to replace the Marshall Lower dorms and several academic and administration buildings. Location: https://i.imgur.com/pll54Tj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/7LjPU7H.jpg Triton Center has this rendering on UCSD's website: https://plandesignbuild.ucsd.edu/_im...ton-Center.jpg Here are a couple older renderings, not sure if they're still accurate to the scope of the project: https://media.sandiegoreader.com/img...08e3fa67d9af9d https://ca-times.brightspotcdn.com/d...architects.jpg EYRC architects also has renderings for a "Triton Pavilion" on their site, I'm not sure if this is still current: https://www.eyrc.com/hs-fs/hubfs/EYR...unity-ppt1.jpg Triton Center location: https://i.imgur.com/L2QlWm6.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ibmy1gt.jpg Overall, I'm surprised that the university hasn't released more detailed renderings and site plans yet; I recall much more having been publicly available when the Theater District project was approved by UC Regents in 2020. These are the documents from the most recent Regents meeting: Triton Center: https://regents.universityofcaliforn...t/mar23/f8.pdf Ridge Walk LLC: https://regents.universityofcaliforn...t/mar23/f9.pdf Overall, very exciting to see the university continue to modernize and urbanize. Students in 5-10 years will have an entirely different university experience from those of us who've already graduated. |
The Ridge Walk North project has site plans and building cross sections in their CEQA documents:
https://plandesignbuild.ucsd.edu/pla...Impact-Reports Ridge Walk is Addendum number 12 here. Site plans start on page 17 of the pdf. Addendum 11 is the Triton Center. I think that awesome EYRC rendering is from an earlier iteration. It would have been amazing though. |
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Here's some additional renderings and a site plan from the EIR addendum for Ridge Walk North: https://i.imgur.com/8LiP61k.jpg https://i.imgur.com/uJnnXn3.jpg https://i.imgur.com/GEejdNm.jpg Due to their height, location, and topography, these likely won't be nearly as visible as the other recent and ongoing tower projects at UCSD. What's unclear in the plans is what's going to happen with the sites on the west side of Ridgewalk, currently home to the Marshall admin building and Sequoyah hall. They're set to be demolished, but the site plan is unclear on what the future use will be (aside from the location for the construction trailers). |
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A few pics of Downtown
Courthouse https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...91ec31a1_h.jpg Broadway https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...5ef23542_h.jpg 11th Broadway https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...a899d82b_h.jpg 8th and B https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...42609652_b.jpg |
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Some East Village action since this is the current hotspot for projects in their later phases, and I happen to have a good viewpoint for all of them.
After these finish, the next big round of big boys that take shape will be more in the Little Italy / Core Columbia area. 800 Broadway (Topped Off!) https://i.imgur.com/4l0eBOW.jpg https://i.imgur.com/SbiMuDJ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TKDgQtv.jpg https://i.imgur.com/cPhstuq.jpg Broadway Towers (Tower 2, 32 stories, slightly taller than tower 1) https://i.imgur.com/Y74ybuh.jpg Radian (topped off, Target @ base, now touring for leases) https://i.imgur.com/S5Iigf9.jpg 8th & B (stalled but still U/C) Still no major moves, but the crane and staff remains. Slow build up of thes truss structures, whatever they are. Not dead, just stalled for whatever reason. https://i.imgur.com/tMWtyOo.jpg |
As I understand it, 8th & B was going to be rentals and will now instead be condos - but the change has required them to file additional paperwork with the city which is delaying construction.
No idea how accurate that is but I heard it from someone at Bosa so I'm rolling with it |
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East Village also gets a bad rap about people living on the sidewalks, but I will maintain that as a downtown resident for years, I've had worse and more frequent issues with drunk Padres fans. :shrug: As a whole, this is the broad part of downtown to look at if you want to live in a central urban / lively area with lots of accessibility that actually feels like a neighborhood. Changing fast, and for the better. And lots of new high rise rentals with amazing views if that's your bag. |
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