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Middletown is a neighborhood in San Diego, California, located north of Little Italy (downtown San Diego), south of Mission Hills and Hillcrest, east of San Diego International Airport, and west of Bankers Hill. [1] Interstate 5 passes through the neighborhood and the San Diego Trolley has one station in the neighborhood.
It is located on hills just south of the San Diego River valley and north of downtown San Diego and San Diego International Airport, overlooking downtown, Old Town, and San Diego Bay. The area is primarily residential, with boutique shops and restaurants along Washington Street, in the West Lewis Shopping District, and in other clusters.
The main trail to the summit is a popular hiking destination taking hundreds of people per day to a 360-degree panorama of San Diego County. The hike to the top is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and an elevation change of about 950 feet (290 m).
Sherman Heights is a diverse neighborhood and home to one of the highest concentrations of Latinos in the city. Current demographics for the neighborhood are as follows: people of Hispanic/Latino heritage make up 75.6%, followed by non-Hispanic Whites at 16.4%, African-Americans at 4.1%, Asian at 1.8%, Mixed Race at 1.8% and others at 0.3% [4]
A portion of Chollas Creek runs through Southcrest on its way to San Diego Bay. 252 Corridor Park parallels much of the creekbed through the neighborhood. 252 Corridor Park has been renamed Southcrest Trails Park. San Diego's Southcrest Trails Park is located in Southcrest, within the Chollas Creek floodplain, part of the smallest watershed in ...
University Heights became one of the many San Diego neighborhoods connected by the Class 1 streetcars and an extensive San Diego public transit system that was spurred by the Panama–California Exposition and built by John D. Spreckels. Built in part to exclusively serve Mission Cliff Gardens, these streetcars became a fixture of this ...
The Del Cerro area was developed as a residential suburb during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. [2]In 2007, California State University trustees endorsed a Master Plan [3] proposing to build a housing project for faculty and staff on university-owned undeveloped open space [4] in Del Cerro (at the site of Adobe Falls, a city historic landmark).
It was annexed to the city of San Diego in a series of moves between 1948 and 1954. [2] The community is the gateway to Mission Trails Regional Park, established in 1974. Grantville was the focus of the Grantville Redevelopment Project Area, established by the city of San Diego in 2005.