Looks nice. It will make a great addition to North Park.

To clarify, the above project isn't the one planned for Upas & 30th. It's called the North Parker, a new Jonathan Segal project.

http://tomshess.blogspot.com/2013/01...gndevelop.html

Opps! Are there any renderings for the Segal project yet? I mean if they can demo the site already there must be some permit processing going on, no?

For some reason I remember hearing that they survived the appeal and will be breaking ground within 90 days. Notice is already posted on Brake Depot.

I hope the renderings we saw were mostly conceptual... I just think it's too squatty looking and is almost identical to the Diamondview Tower.

I'm not against the project, I just wish it could be more slender or at least taller to bring some more height to that area. I just hate that this replaced the Cosmo, that would've been the coolest and one of the tallest buildings in downtown.

Progress on this Little Italy tower

http://i.imgur.com/LjgWlt6.jpg

Yay!

Good Article:

Excellent article. Great message.

San Diego leadership is obviously not supporting their future. Still tied to freeways.

Thanks for the update HurricaneHugo. Ariel Suites hopefully is a sign of a new boom that is coming.

Sdurban.com just posted a rendering of The North Parker on the corner of Upas & 30th street.

http://sdurban.com/?p=8012

Well at the very least it's an upgrade to what's there

Thanks.

I don't think I don't like it... eh.

Reminds me of the stuff they've been putting up in Golden Hill the past few years.

30th and Upas looks ok. It could use a few more stories though.

Park and G broke ground on Thursday. 208 more apartments coming to downtown. Unfortunately it is only five stories tall though.

Any renderings for this one? What's this one going to look like, any different than all the surrounding ones?

Street level solutions for stalled projects
 

Even with all the continued development in the east village, there's still so many vacant lots, and scay shuttered warehouses. Creative solutions like this could really help change the feel of the area while waiting for stalled projects to come back online:
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2013/may/01...-redevelopmen/

Agreed, East Village benefits from San Diego City College's new expansion which (in my opinion) looks great. Now if the city could only muster enough willpower to build other ambitious civic projects like a state-of-the-art stadium, an expansion of the light-rail system, and a plan of action for the Plaza de Panama fiasco.

how does civicsandiego own any land? ccdc is dismantled an another bureaucracy replaces it ,smh.