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Little Italy is a neighborhood in downtown San Diego, California, [2] that was originally a predominantly Italian and Portuguese fishing neighborhood. It now consists of Italian restaurants, grocery stores, home design stores, art galleries and residential units.
A storefront in Seaport Village, with a downtown hotel in the background Seaport Village is a waterfront shopping and dining complex adjacent to San Diego Bay in downtown San Diego , California. The complex houses more than 70 shops, galleries, and eateries on 90,000 square feet (8,000 m 2 ) of waterfront property.
Horton Plaza Park is an outdoor plaza in downtown San Diego, California. It includes an amphitheater, retail stores, and a fountain. [1] It is located on the corner of 4th Avenue and Broadway. The city-owned plaza opened in 1910. It was designed by landscape architect Walker Macy and built by Civic San Diego. [2]
1867: Real estate developer Alonzo Horton arrived in San Diego and purchased 800 acres (3.2 km 2) of land in New Town for $265. Major development began in the Gaslamp Quarter. [8] 1880s to 1916: Known as the Stingaree, the area was a working class area, home to San Diego's first Chinatown, "Soapbox Row" and many saloons, gambling halls, and ...
Anthology was a 13,000 square foot, 325-seat live music venue and fine dining restaurant located at the south end of the Little Italy neighborhood of San Diego, California. It opened in summer 2007 and captured a modern feel of supper clubs of the 1930s and 40s in downtown San Diego .
In the 1860s, the first Chinese people moved to the downtown area. [19] In the 1870s, the Chinese were the primary fishermen in the area. [20] Beginning in the 1880s, a large number of Chinese began to move to San Diego, establishing a concentration; with up to 200 Chinese making up a minority of the 8,600 who lived in all of San Diego. [21]
As the highest land mass in the Centre City Community Planning area, Cortez Hill boasts views of urban San Diego, Balboa Park, the bay and Pacific Ocean. New developments include 6,000 square feet (600 m 2 ) of retail space, 758 residential units and the Cortez Hill Neighborhood Park/Tweet Street.
It provides panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Beach, Mission Bay, Mission Beach, Ocean Beach, downtown San Diego, and glimpses of San Diego Bay and Coronado. The park is dedicated to Kate Sessions , a botanist , horticulturalist , and landscape architect who lived and worked in San Diego from 1884-1940.